Activity 1. What to Notice Training Module on the Right to Mental Health in the Academe Purpose: To identify warning signs that educators need to recognize in students Materials: Powerpoint, projector Time: 25 minutes Instruction: Discuss the different parameters used for assessing the mental health of students along the mental health continuum. What to Notice refers to a list of behaviors displayed by adolescents that are indicative of where they are on the mental health continuum (see Table 3) Table 3. What to Notice Mental Health Continuum Flourishing Level of Concern Very Low Core Features Support Focus Going Ok Low Struggling Severely Impacting Everyday Activities Moderate High Optimal Well-being Overall positive well-being with a few isolated experiences of distress Occasional and time-limited periods of distress with a mild impact on well-being Poor mental health and wellbeing causing distress and significantly impacting on daily experiences Maintain Monitor & Internal Support External Support & Collaboration Enhance What It Can Look Like Behaviors, Emotions, Thoughts • Regularly experiences more positive than negative emotions • Manages negative emotions in a healthy way • Manages stress and challenges in a productive way 13 • Displays • Fluctuations emotional in emotions stability, or at times a range of seem disproemotions portionate at a level to event or appropriate situation to the context • More or situation frequent • Copes with or intense normal expression of emotions stressors in such as a learning anger, worry environment or sadness in comparison to peers • Frequent displays of externalizing (irritable, low impulse control, anger) or internalizing (avoidance, worry, sadness) behaviors • Needs things to be perfect; distressed at mistakes • Low energy or tiredness