Section: 1.1 - Mental Wellness | Mental Health Nursing | NextGenU.org

  • Student Learning Outcomes:
    • Define mental wellness as it relates to individual health, family, and community health.
    • Explain the nurse's role in the promotion of mental health wellness and disease prevention.
    • Identify mental health concerns as they relate to culture, barriers to treatment, and stigma.
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    Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 2 hours and 54 minutes.

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    • Required Learning Resources and Activities
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      Mental Health: Strengthening our Response URL
      Students must
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      Read the entire page. (7 minutes)

      World Health Organization

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      Mental Health is a Human Right URL
      Students must
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      Read the entire article. (24 minutes).

      Psychology International, American Psychological Association

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      Family Relationships and Mental Illness: Impacts and Service Responses URL
      Students must
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      Open the document 'Family Relationships and Mental Illness: Impacts and Service Responses'. Read sections titled ‘Protective factors’, ‘Living with someone with mental illness’, ‘Children of parents with mental illness’,’ Siblings whose parent have mental illness’, ‘Number of carers’, and the first paragraph of ‘Social contacts and Networks’ from page 6-10. (18 minutes)

      Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse

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      Mental Illness Stigma’s Reasons and Determinants (MISReaD) Among Singapore’s Lay Public – A Qualitative Inquiry URL
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      Read the contents of ‘Results’. (17 minutes)

      BMC Psychiatry Journal

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      Four Ways Culture Impacts Mental Health URL
      Students must
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      Read the contents of ‘Here are four ways culture can impact mental health’. (2 minutes). 

      Mental Health First AID USA, National Council for Mental Wellbeing

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      The Impact of Mental Illness Stigma on Seeking and Participating in Mental Health Care URL
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      Read contents of section ‘Stigma and Care seeking’ and ‘Provider-Level Barriers to Care Seeking’. (36 minutes)

      Psychological Science in the Public Interest Journal

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      What do Mental Health Nurses do? URL
      Students must
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      Read the entire article. (5 minutes)

      Birmingham City, School of Nursing and Midwifery

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      Nursing Matters: Developing Nursing Resources for Mental Health URL
      Students must
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      Read the entire article. (5 minutes)

      World Health Organization

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      Mark as done
      Slide Deck Presentation
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      Topic: Mental Wellness URL
      Students must
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      Mark as done
      Quiz
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      Quiz: Unit 1.1

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