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    This document discusses the benefits of mindfulness for youth mental health and well-being. It notes that anxiety and depression affect many children and that mentally healthy students do better in school. The document then explains that mindfulness involves paying full attention to the present moment and can help with anxiety, promote overall wellness, and support positive choices around wellness, relationships, and learning. Introducing mindfulness techniques in schools through health and life skills classes allows benefits like these to be developed in students.

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    What Matters In Health and Life

    Skills Education?
    Taken Up Through the Phenomenon of Mindfulness

    LT4 Living Discipline Photo Essay: Health and Life Skills


    CDPD 500-2
    Ashley Miller
    There is an
    epidemic involving
    mental health in
    our youth.
    Anxiety and depression affect many children:
    7.1% of children aged 3-17 years (approximately 4.4 million) have diagnosed anxiety.
    3.2% of children aged 3-17 years (approximately 1.9 million) have diagnosed depression.
    (https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/features/anxiety-depression-children.html )
    Connected to this, we need to
    recognize that the mental health of
    Alberta students is a “shared
    responsibility of parents, educators
    and community partners.”
    WORKING
    TOGETHER
    TO SUPPORT
    MENTAL
    HEALTH IN
    ALBERTA
    SCHOOLS
    We know that mentally
    healthy students are
    more likely to have
    positive experiences at
    school and beyond.
    Mindfulness has quickly become a buzzword spoken about by educators, written about in
    magazines and researched by psychologists.
    For Children, mindfulness
    means paying full attention
    to something. It means
    slowing down to really notice
    what you're doing.
    Mindfulness can be a
    useful tool at each
    developmental stage.
    It can help with
    anxiety and
    promote overall
    wellness.
    The practice of mindfulness
    helps children with their
    wellness choices,
    relationship choices and their
    life learning choices.
    In sum, individuals who use
    mindfulness techniques in
    their day to day lives are
    better set up for positive
    mental health and therefore,
    positive wellness choices.
    Health and Life Skills invites us to
    deepen our understanding of
    positive wellness choices,
    relationship choices and life
    learning choices. It allows us to
    introduce mindfulness and the
    associated benefits.
    1. https://sossafetymagazine.com/health-and-well-being/tortured-mind-a-study-on-
    youth-mental-health/
    2. https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/features/anxiety-depression-
    children.html
    3. https://education.alberta.ca/media/3576206/working_together_to_support_mental_
    health.pdf
    4. https://trafficlogix.com/do-kids-in-your-neighborhood-walk-to-school/
    5. https://www.tuneinward.com/meditation-blog/mindfulness-is-so-hot-right-now/
    6. https://www.understood.org/en/learning-thinking-differences/child-learning-
    disabilities/distractibility-inattention/how-kids-pay-attention-and-why-some-kids-
    struggle-with-it
    7. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/mindfulness/definition
    8. https://cmhaww.ca/news/tips-from-cmha-ww-for-child-and-youth-wellness-during-
    the-holidays/
    9. https://time.com/1556/the-mindful-revolution/
    10. https://cfssc.ca/services/youth-counselling/youth-wellness/
    11. https://education.alberta.ca/media/160196/health.pdf

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