“Mental Health” Practice：Description and Evaluation of a High School Health Education Learning Unit Designed to Develop Cognitive Skills

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  • 認知的スキルを育成する高等学校保健学習「精神の健康」の実践と評価
  • ニンチテキ スキル オ イクセイ スル コウトウ ガッコウ ホケン ガクシュウ 「 セイシン ノ ケンコウ 」 ノ ジッセン ト ヒョウカ

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<p>　The purpose of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate a teaching method of “mental health" issues to nurture cognitive skills as part of high school health education. Lectures and surveys were conducted between October 2008 and March 2009. The subjects were 239 first year municipal high school students (males: 88, females: 151), and they were divided into two groups: three classes in lecture intervention group, and another three classes in control group. A total of 174 students (males: 56, females: 118, 72.8%) who responded to all questionnaire surveys which were conducted before and after each lecture were used for analysis. As the results, a marked improvement in self-management skills and reduction in the stress response were indicated among students in the lecture intervention compared to the control group. The results also showed that the stress response was more markedly reduced in students who showed a greater improvement in self-management skills in the lecture intervention group. Furthermore, comments made by students in the lecture intervention group after the lectures indicated that they understood that cognitive skills are effective when coping with stress.</p><p>　These results suggest that the teaching method of “mental health" issues to nurture cognitive skills as part of high school health education was effective.</p>

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