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Mental Health Awareness in Education (MHAE)

April 2004: Click to download the Mental Heath Awareness in Education Handbook Evaluation Summary in Microsoft Excel format.Mental Health Awareness in Education is a program to educate agency personnel, law enforcement officers, teachers, counselors, staff, parents and students about 14 mental health disorders common in adolescents including suicide, depression, self mutilation, anxiety and eating disorders.

The ‘train the trainer’ program includes a 54 page publication, The Adolescent Mental Health Handbook. The user friendly, research based Handbook provides definitions, management tips (what to say and do and what not to say and do), a referral section, medication table, substance abuse and chemical dependency identification chart, and an index of symptoms.

The Handbook can be used in teacher education classes, as text for junior and senior high health classes, and as supplemental text in college courses in psychology and social work. The program emphasizes referral and teaches participants to describe what they may observe in an adolescent, leaving final diagnosis to the clinician.

The goal of MHAE is to:

• Bring awareness and understanding of mental illness
• Help those in contact with adolescents to begin to identify, but not diagnose, mental illness
• Reduce the stigma of mental illness
• Provide information about medications and their side effects, if any
• Help identify drug and alcohol abuse in adolescents
• Avoid the downward health spiral that can occur in untreated mental illness
• Alleviate adolescent suicide

Price List for Schools and agencies in the business of dealing with Adolescent Mental Health:

The Adolescent Mental Health Handbook (54 pgs) Includes: User friendly, research based Definitions and management tips for 14 mental health disorders common in adolescents Website resource section Medication table Substance abuse and chemical dependency identification chart An index of symptoms	$25 20% DISCOUNT for orders of 25 or more
MHAE Curriculum Notebook, Handbook, and Multimedia CD Package Includes: 1 Curriculum Notebook 91 color pages Lesson plans that correlate with 14 sections of the Adolescent Mental Health Handbook Case studies Fun and insightful skits and testimonials Program evaluation tools including the MHAE Pre and Post Measure, CES-D Depression Screening, Beck’s Anxiety Inventory, and the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) 1 MHAE Multimedia CD 120 PowerPoint slides to accompany the Curriculum Notebook lessons 7 powerful videos Interactive activities A Jeopardy PowerPoint review game 1 Adolescent Mental Health Handbook	$300 Buy 7 trainer packages and receive a full day Staff Training FREE! ($1,000 Value)
Train the Trainer Staff Development Full and Half Day Trainings Include: Interactive training using The Mental Health Handbook as text Silent discussions Case study exercises Teenage testimonial videos MHAE PowerPoint Presentation	$1,000/$500 full day/half day 20% Discount on Handbooks with ½ or full day training purchase

The Adolescent Mental Health Handbook Order Form

Use the convenient web form below to order copies of the Handbook using your Visa or MasterCard. Please call (312) 781-7780 to order by phone.

Quantity discount: One to 25 Handbooks cost $25 each; 26 or more handbooks cost $20 each.

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