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2. Mental health in education - Wikipedia

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   Mental health in education is the impact that mental health (including emotional, psychological, and social well-being) has on educational performance. Mental health often viewed as an adult issue, but in fact, almost half of adolescents in the United States are affected by mental disorders, and about 20% of these are categorized as “severe.”

3. Mental health - Wikipedia

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   Mental disorders. Mental health, as defined by the Public Health Agency of Canada, [7] is an individual's capacity to feel, think, and act in ways to achieve a better quality of life while respecting personal, social, and cultural boundaries. [8] Impairment of any of these are risk factor for mental disorders, or mental illnesses, [9] which are ...

4. Major depressive disorder - Wikipedia

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   The assessment also includes a mental state examination, which is an assessment of the person's current mood and thought content, in particular the presence of themes of hopelessness or pessimism, self-harm or suicide, and an absence of positive thoughts or plans. Specialist mental health services are rare in rural areas, and thus diagnosis and ...

5. Psychological resilience - Wikipedia

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   Psychological resilience is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly.. The term was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by psychologist Emmy Werner as she conducted a forty-year-long study of a cohort of Hawaiian children who came from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.

6. Mental health literacy - Wikipedia

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   Mental health literacy has been defined as "knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders which aid their recognition, management and prevention. Mental health literacy includes the ability to recognize specific disorders; knowing how to seek mental health information; knowledge of risk factors and causes, of self-treatments, and of professional ...

7. Special education - Wikipedia

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   Special education (known as special-needs education, aided education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, and SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates their individual differences, disabilities, and special needs. This involves the individually planned and systematically ...