Competency
Identify common psychological diagnoses, therapies, and treatments.
Scenario
For this assignment, you will be taking on the role of the Keynote Speaker at Rasmussen University’s “Mental Health Matters” Conference. As a presenter, you will discuss the importance of mental health literacy—caring for one’s mental health. To accompany the presentation, you will create a PowerPoint highlighting the main ideas. The goal of your presentation is to bring awareness to mental health issues and encourage your fellow classmates and professors to do things that will help them improve their mental health and quality of life.
Instructions
Students will create a PowerPoint for this assignment. The PowerPoint will address the following topics:
Define mental health literacy and discuss its importance. Include the benefits of good mental health literacy, and effects of poor mental health literacy.
Discuss how social stigma affects mental health using examples.
Offer strategies to improve our mental health (i.e., self-care).
Provide resources for those struggling with mental health issues (i.e., national hotlines, governmental agencies, online sources, etc.)
Assessment/Submission Requirements
PowerPoint Presentation