Students practise having conversations to support friends experiencing mental health difficulties.
Year level
7-12
Duration
5 minutes
Type
In class activity
Online learning
SEL Competencies
Self-awareness
Social awareness
Learning intention
Students learn how to ask a friend if they are okay if they have concerns about their mental health.
Key outcomes
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
ask a friend if they’re okay
know what to do if their friend does or doesn’t want help.
Materials needed
Access to ReachOut.com article ‘What to do when someone doesn’t want help’
Access to the ReachOut.com article ‘How to ask a friend if they’re ok’
Mapped to
Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education
Analyse factors that influence emotional responses and devise strategies to self-manage emotions (AC9HP8P06)
Plan, rehearse and evaluate strategies for managing situations where their own or others’ health, safety or wellbeing may be at risk (AC9HP10P08)
Australian Curriculum: General Capabilities
Personal and Social Capability:
Self-management
Social awareness
Social management
NSW PDHPE Syllabus
Examines and demonstrates the role help-seeking strategies and behaviours play in supporting themselves and others (PD4-2)
Assesses their own and others’ capacity to reflect on and respond positively to challenges (PD5-1)
Victorian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education
Examine barriers to seeking support and evaluate strategies to overcome these (VCHPEP125)
Evaluate situations and propose appropriate emotional responses and then reflect on possible outcomes of different responses to health and wellbeing (VCHPEP147)
Activity 1
Instructions
5 minutes
Ask students to read ‘How to ask a friend if they’re ok’.
Discuss as a class what you could do if a friend doesn’t want help. Refer students to the article ‘What to do when someone doesn’t want help’.
Discuss with students the barriers they might experience when trying to help a friend and why sharing their concerns could help their friend.