Can I manage feelings and emotions during challenging times?
Can I manage feelings and emotions during challenging times?
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Getting ready for today’s lesson:
Can I manage feelings and emotions during challenging times?
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Discussion Director:
Discuss this vocabulary with your group
Feeling change
Emotion challenge
Moods advice
Thoughts support
mental health support network,
Wellbeing
events
Can I manage feelings and emotions during challenging times?
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Facilitator:
Look at these sentence starters.
Complete these sentences individually.
• A time when someone’s mental health might be affected is…
• The person might feel…
• Something the person can do to help themselves is…
• Something someone else can do is…
Discussion Director:
Help your group share their sentences.
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Facilitator: Let’s look at Sasha’s story.
Discussion Director:
How might this situation affect Sasha’s mental health and well-being (feelings and emotions)?
Reader: read the following scenario
A few weeks ago Sasha’s mum explained there were going to be some changes coming… Sasha’s family moved house to a completely new area. She had to leave the local street-dance club and start a new school as well. Sasha feels terribly lonely and doesn’t know anyone in the new area – everyone seems to have their friendship groups already and her mum is always busy. Sasha is spending more and more time alone and feels like things will never change.
Can I manage feelings and emotions during challenging times?
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Facilitator:
Look at these events that might affect people’s feelings and emotions. Can we think of any other events?
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Life events and circumstances | How it may affect someone and their feelings | What could help? |
Moving to a new area | They might feel lonely. | |
Test or exams | | |
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Recorder: Complete the first two columns of this table ONLY.
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Emotions change over time.
Let’s think about Sasha.
Can you see how Sasha’s situation changed over time.
We might be feeling down, but over time, these feelings change.
Feelings are temporary.
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What will help Sasha manage the current situation?
Go back to complete the third column on the table in Slide 7.
Which strategies might best help a person in each of the situations?
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What is a support network?
People around you who can offer support and advice during a challenging time.
Sasha thought about her support network.
It includes the following:
Mum, step-dad Billy, Uncle Joe, Granny Mack, best friends — Mylo and Robyn, teacher — Ms Williams, Leader of Learning and Welfare, school counsellor.
Do you know who your support network is?
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You are going to write a response to a letter.
Choose one of these scenarios.
What advice can you give this person?
Use the template on the next slide to help you structure your response.
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Use this template to support your response.
You can do this as a group - complete in these slides, copy the text to this slide.
You can do it individually - copy and paste the text from the previous slide and the template into your PSHE book.
Dear ……..
Every day, …..
In the moment or when the feelings get stronger…..
You could talk to……
I hope…….
From, …..