Fostering mental health literacy through adolescent literature [electronic resource] / edited by Brooke Eisenbach, Jason Scott Frydman.

"This collection provides secondary (6-12) educators background information pertaining to a variety of mental health themes, along with specific pedagogical approaches for engaging readers in developing their mental health literacy"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Eisenbach, Brooke (Editor)
Frydman, Jason Scott, 1983- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
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Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: Preparing to Engage with Mental Health Themes in Adolescent Literature
  • What's Mined is Ours: Mental Health and American Rurality in Kristin Russell's A Sky For Us Alone
  • Literacy and Loss: Examining Loss and Grief through Characterization in The Boy in the Black Suit
  • First Person Perspective: Understanding Adolescent Eating Disorders Through Good Enough
  • Secrecy, Silence, and Transgenerational Trauma: Conflict and Character Development in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
  • Exploring Graphic Memoir Trajectories: Processing the Effects of Substance Use Disorder and Healing Through Art in Hey, Kiddo
  • Teaching When Reason Breaks: Understanding Depression and Interrogating Bias through Character Analysis
  • "I'm Not Like That": Reading Heroine to Engage Students in Conversations and Research About Opioid Use Disorder--Reading A Hero's Journey through OCDaniel
  • Exploring Mental Health Literacy through Book Clubs.