Mental health & emotional wellbeing
Here you can find resources related to mental health and emotional well-being of children and teenagers.
Click on the resources’ titles to see short descriptions, the links and the available languages.
Short Guide for Young Adults on Mental Health
The ‘Short Guide for Young Adults on Mental Health’ aims to aid young adults take control of their mental health journey. The guide hope that it will give pointers to where young individuals can find out more and the courage to ask and keep asking if they are not satisfied.
DEVELOPER: Mental Health Europe
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
Mental Health Toolkit for High School Students
This toolk aims to increase mental health literacy and reduce the stigma of mental health concerns. Teenagers will learn more about mental health and they will find suggestions to develop mental wellness.
DEVELOPER: Chapman University
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
Pilot Program: Workshops for adolescents
This document contains educational workshops to be carried out in schools in order to educate and help teenagers to become more familiar with the subject of sexual violence, harassment, and gender stereotypes; teaching children and adolescents to defend themselves and to combat gender-based violence; promote a genuine change in people’s attitudes. Therefore, the educational workshops will help adolescents to make conscious choices and to develop mechanisms that allow them to manage these phenomena, contributing to the prevention of gender-based violence linked to stereotypes and the sexualization of women by the media.
DEVELOPER: CONVEY Project (CESIE was the coordinator)
ΕΝ, IT
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
Peer support models for children and young people with
mental health problems
This article analyze evidence, opportunities and issues relating to peer support models for children and young people with mental health problems.
DEVELOPER: Centre for Mental Health
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children’s Mental Health What We Know So Far
To prevent and address GBV, the UNDP works on dedicated actions and strategies, which are outlined in 1st section of this briefing note. UNDP Country Offices, UN sister agencies and other partners contributed to addressing GBV by ensuring that their broader interventions to cope with the COVID-19 crisis can help enhance the protective factors to prevent GBV (see section 2). This briefing also provides cross-cutting considerations to be mainstreamed across every intervention (see section 3 of the briefing note).
DEVELOPER: UNDP
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
THE CONVERSATION GUIDE – A guide to talking about porn with your 8 to 11/12 to 15/16+ year-old
Three conversation guides, divided by age, to introduce by speaking candidly to our children about the dangers of the misuse of the internet and social media, raising awareness of the presence of cyberbullying, sexual predators, online grooming, blackmail, digital abuse, and image-based sexual abuse – also known as “revenge porn”.
DEVELOPER: The Porn Conversation
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
THE CURRICULUM & ACTIVITY GUIDE – A resource for educators to lead a comprehensive sex education program for 8 to 11/12 to 15/16+-year-old students
The Porn Conversation Curriculum & Activity Guides are free and easily accessible theoretical and practical resources for educators seeking tools to lead an age-appropriate comprehensive sex education program for their students.
DEVELOPER: The Porn Conversation
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE