1. Mental & Emotional Health
Coping with Grief and Stress

2. Grading
Homework grade of 34 points

3. Action Plan
Take a moment to reflect on the step you planned out for meeting your goal.

4. Student Skill Expectation: You will be able to…
Assess the barriers to achieve a goal to improve or maintain positive emotional health.1

5. Goal Setting Model4

6. Student Knowledge Expectation: You will be able to…
Summarize strategies for coping with loss and grief.1

7. Coping With Loss Or Grief
Helpguide.org2 provides information and strategies for coping with loss or grief.
Use the Helpguide.org2 webpage on coping with grief and loss to complete the notes outline.

8. Student Skill Expectation: You will be able to…
Use resources that provide valid and reliable mental and emotional health information.1

10. MEH Health Information
You can get mental and emotional information from a variety of resources, such as professionals, programs, books, etc.
Nowadays, the main source of information is the Internet.

12. MEH Health Information
The Internet can be a good source of MEH information, but it can also be a not so good source of information.
Therefore, it is important to know how to find and use valid and reliable websites.
Valid and reliable means factual and trusted

14. MEH Health Information
Use .gov, .org, or .edu websites.
You can use .com or .net websites, but make sure you know who made the website or wrote the piece.
Was it a psychiatrist, counselor, psychology, or someone qualified to truly give MEH information.

15. Stress
Search the Internet for valid/reliable information about at least three effects of stress and three strategies for stress management that you could use.
Make sure you cite the websites you used.

17. Conclusion
Now that you have demonstrated that you can find and use valid/reliable MEH information, the next step is being able to put information you find into practice and use it in real life.

18. Student Knowledge Expectation: You will be able to…
Evaluate effective strategies for dealing with stress.1

19. Evaluating Strategies
Now that you have a few ideas about how to manage stress from valid/reliable websites, it’s time to put them into practice to see if we can use them in real life.

20. Evaluating Strategies
Take at least one of the strategies you found for managing stress and put it into practice (give it a try).
Then, report on how well it worked.

22. References
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Internet]. Adolescent and School Health, Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT). c2012– [cited 2013 Jan 15]. Available from:
HelpGuide.org. (2017). Coping With Grief and Loss. Retrieved from grief-and-loss.htm