Marco Reyes Publico
Assessing the Mental Health Literacy of Secondary School Educators
University of the Cordilleras
mental health remains one pressing concerns across world teachers play influential role lives learning students struggling mental health unfortunately teachers expressed concerns feeling overwhelmed unprepared handle mental health needs students lack knowledge skills competence resources research conducted provide systematic appraisal mental health literacy among secondary school teachers utilizing educationmodified mental health literacy scale adapted kenney work oconnor eightyone 81 teachers public private secondary schools surveyed six domains include disorder recognition scale risk factor knowledge scale selftreatment knowledge scale available professional help scale information seeking knowledge scale attitudes scale found overall participants manifested high level mental health literacy adept attitudes scale conversely found teachers need knowledge training riskfactor knowledge scale statistically significant difference found mental health scale scores compared schools grade level researcher recommends using results current study springboard crafting professional development program focuses increasing literacy teachers mental health