Discipline: Professional Resources
Copyright: 2015
Grade(s): 3 - 12
Delivery Method: Print
Imprint: Pearson Canada
Author(s): Patrick Carney
Well Aware - Developing Resilient, Active, and Flourishing Students
Mental health concerns, particularly those relating to children and youth, are increasing in number and complexity. In the face of this serious issue, how can we as educators help our students to be well—mentally, physically, and emotionally?

Features & Benefits
Educators have always been concerned with students’ well-being and healthy development. What is new is a recognition that we need to be
- more informed about mental health promotion
- more tactical about promoting healthy habits and addressing problems early
- more focused when using evidence-based strategies at the classroom, school, and community levels
How can this resource help you? The goal is to provide you with the research-based evidence, tools, and strategies to help support students’ healthy development in practical and effective ways. It is difficult to overstate the difference a teacher, or a school, can make in a child’s or youth’s mental health — not through expensive or sophisticated interventions — but through compassion, inclusion, encouragement, and effective instruction.