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Schools as a Setting for Promoting Positive Mental Health

Schools as a Setting for Promoting Positive Mental Health

For Parents, For Teachers & Principals

“Participation in school activities, engagement in the school process, and a sense of belonging are crucial elements in keeping young people on a positive life path.” (Bower, Carroll and Ashman, 2012, pg.10) This quote is included in Schools as a Setting for Promoting...
Self-Control: Predictor of Future Success

Self-Control: Predictor of Future Success

For Parents, For Teachers & Principals

The Dunedin, New Zealand Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study is regarded as one of the most intense and consequential investigations into human development ever undertaken. The team of researchers began collecting data in the early 1970s on more than 1,000...

Recent Posts

  • Adolescents are in the midst of a full-blown mental health crisis
  • Hold the phones! Cellphones in classrooms?
  • What Works in Schools
  • A community’s ills will be reflected in its schools
  • Establishing a school wellness committee

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School Health Coordinator testimonial

"The Model speaks to young people about taking responsibility for their own health and well-being. The Wheel metaphor is practical and easily understood by any age and could be adapted to a wide range of learning styles. The student-friendly ideas can easily be integrated into curriculum and extra-curricular health promoting lessons and activities. It builds on all of the principles of health promotion."

Teacher testimonial

"Finally we have a framework into which all our work fits like a glove! The Wellness Resource has provided both philosophical and practical threads that logically and creatively tie together the many varied themes we develop in our program."

Counselor testimonial

"As a First Nations Counselor I have adopted the Wellness Wheel Model to address the diverse needs of my students. It encompasses all aspects of life and is not specific to any one culture or society. I not only encourage the students to use the Model, I use it in my own life as well."

Recent Blog Posts

  • Adolescents are in the midst of a full-blown mental health crisis
  • Hold the phones! Cellphones in classrooms?
  • What Works in Schools
  • A community’s ills will be reflected in its schools
  • Establishing a school wellness committee
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