Kim’s Counseling Center

I found this to be an excellent resource that is full of external links and activity suggestions.  This one is geared more towards adults who are mentors in the lives of youth, so I found this to be more helpful for a teacher.

Core Integration:

Kim’s Counseling Center is full of PDFs of worksheets that could easily be connected to literature that the class is reading or writing projects that the class is working on.

Related National Health Education Standards and Healthy Behavior Outcomes

• MEH 1.8.1 “Describe the characteristics of a mentally and emotionally healthy person.”
• MEH 1.8.10 “Explain the importance of a positive body image.”
• MEH 1.8.11 “Describe how mental and emotional health can affect health-related behaviors.”
• MEH 1.8.12 “Describe how sharing or posting personal information electronically about self or others on social media sites can negatively impact mental and emotional health.”
• MEH 1.8.17 “Describe what it means to be a responsible person.”
• MEH 1.8.19 “Describe an examples of a situations that require self-control.”
• MEH 1.8.25 “Explain positive and negative ways of dealing with stress.”
• MEH 1.8.29 “Examine the importance of being aware of one’s own feelings and of being sensitive to the feelings of others.”
• HBO 1 “Express feelings in a healthy way.”
• HBO 2 “Engage in activities that are mentally and emotionally healthy.”
• HBO 4 “Prevent and manage emotional stress and anxiety in healthy ways.”
• HBO 6 “Get help for troublesome thoughts, feelings, or actions for oneself or others.”
• MEH 2.8.1 “Examine how the family influences the health of adolescents.”
• MEH 2.8.2 “Describe the influence of culture on health beliefs, practices, and behaviors.”
• MEH 2.8.3 “Describe how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.”
• MEH 2.8.4 “Analyze how the school and community can affect personal health practices and behaviors.”
• MEH 3.8.2 “Access valid health information from home, school, and community.”
• MEH 5.8.4 “Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy alternatives to health-related issues or problems.”
• MEH 5.8.5 “Predict the potential short-term impact of each alternative on self and others.”
• MEH 5.8.6 “Choose healthy alternatives over unhealthy alternatives when making a decision.”
• MEH 6.8.2 “Develop a goal to adopt, maintain, or improve a personal health practice.”
• MEH 6.8.3 “Apply strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal.”
• MEH 7.8.1 “Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors.”
• MEH 7.8.2 “Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.”
• MEH 7.8.3 “Demonstrate behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks to self and others.”
• MEH 8.8.2 “Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices.”
• MEH 8.8.3 “Work cooperatively to advocate for healthy individuals, families, and schools.”