RECOGNIZING DEPRESSION

Help students learn how to successfully navigate life, overcome difficult situations and make good choices with these essential life-skills lessons!

Provide students with the basic skills needed to attain success in school and in life!

This series helps develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become a healthy, productive adult.

Part of the Life Skill Lessons- Personal Development Series, these activities feature dialogue between teens as they experience various difficult situations. Following each scenario, lessons discuss the possible reactions someone might have, and what the likely outcomes would be, based on whether the reaction was positive or negative. Helpful tips, strategies and advice are included to help students learn to overcome these difficult scenarios should they face them in the future...

A variety of exercises follow the reading passages and guide students along their path to self discovery, while also helping them learn to make quality choices in difficult situations. A variety of exercises are included such as true or false, matching, fill-in-the-blanks, multiple choice, sentence completion, crossword puzzles and subjective opinion.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

• Learning About Depression
• Symptoms of Depression
• "The Blahs" "The Blues" & Rotten Moods
• Depression as an Illness
• Sadness
• Loneliness
• Hopelessness
• Anxiety & Irritability
• Changes in Appetite
• Changes in Sleep Habits
• Self-defeating Behaviors
• Suicidal Thoughts
• What to do about Depression
• Getting Help
• School Counselors
• Suicide Prevention Hotline
• How Common is Depression? (It's More Common Than You Think)

LIFE SKILL LESSON PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SUCCESS 10-BOOK SERIES:

Provide students with the basic skills needed to attain success in school and in life!

This series helps develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become a healthy, productive adult. Topics are discussed in a non-threatening conversational manner, and are designed to guide students and help them see alternatives to the various choices they might make...

TOPICS IN THIS SERIES:

• Anger Management/ Peer Pressure / Communicating Effectively
• Improving Self Concept
• How to Handle Stress
• Learning How to Study
• Learning How to Take a Test
• How to Get Good Grades
• Succeeding in the Classroom
• Dropping Out of School
• Communication Skills
• Recognizing Depression
• Career Choices
• Choosing a College
• Peer Pressure
• and more!