Foundations of Education

Professor:
Dr. Jeryl M. Casilao
How are
you?
How are
you
really?
Mental
Health

Jomarie Pila Pogoy

 MENTAL HEALTH
Mental Health
• the ability to adapt oneself
satisfactorily to the changes
and problems met within life

• Mental Hygiene

measure taken to maintain

and foster good mental
health

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 MENTAL HEALTH
Home & School
Connection

School
• 2nd most important institution from
the point of view of mental
hygiene
after the home
• Is mental health being emphasized
in schools before?

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 Significant Factors of Mental Health

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in Psychology
Problems of Social
Adjustments
• were introduced primarily
because of Sigmund
Freud’s Psychoanalytic
Theory

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 Significant Factors of Mental Health

MENTAL HEATLH
in Psychology

• Realization that disturbed children need help before they can

be expected to do practice to their regular schoolwork

• Belief that the school should also teach social responses as

part of its curricular responsibility e.g., DepEd Psychosocial
Activity Pack for Learners

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Maladjustment

-inability to adjust to the demand of interpersonal relationships

and the stresses of daily living

-when an individual is unable to satisfy his biological,

psychological or social needs successfully and establishes an
imbalance between his personal needs and expectation of the
society
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Symptoms of Maladjustment
Escape
• Excessive daydreaming
• Withdrawal from schoolwork and
group activities
• Tardiness
• Truancy (the action of staying
away from school without good
reason; absenteeism)
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Aggression
• Showing aggressive behavior, is
familiar to everyone and is likely
to be punished. This usually
increases the tension and
aggravates the problems.
• Tendency to be dominating in a
class, Sometimes if he fails to do
so, he hurts himself instead e.g., a
child beats her doll, kicks the
dog, or other objects.
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 • states that aggression is a result of

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FRUSTRATION frustration
- AGGRESSION • Frustration is a feeling of tension
HYPOTHESIS that occurs when our efforts to
reach a goal are blocked.

“The occurrence of aggression

always presupposes frustration.”
Neil Miller &
(Donald & Miller, 1939)
John Donald
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Major Drawbacks

• Some people reacts by merely • Being annoyed or attacked by

sitting quietly and just seething another person often results in
inwardly. aggression aimed at the source of the
annoyance.
• Regressing (acting in a less
• Ex.: When a student who was about
mature fashion)
to sit when without provocation the
other student pulled his chair and
found himself lying on the floor.
Later he is punching the “playful
chair-puller.”
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 MENTAL HEALTH
Major Drawbacks
Is aggression innate or learned?

• Nature theorists • Social psychologists

see humans as instinctively violent, - pointed aggression on TV/ mass
destined by their genes to be media as it viewed or encouraged
aggressive. violent acts being imitated by
children as avid television viewers.

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 Psychological Approach to Discover

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the Causes

1. Parental cooperation and curriculum adjustments

2. Provide counselling to change the pupil’s perceptions

3. Breakdown undesirable habits and substitute more satisfactory

methods of response.

4. Provide deep therapy, cases through psychological or psychiatric clinic

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 Techniques for Controlling

MENTAL HEATLH
Aggression

1. Create a non-permissive atmosphere.

2. Limit aggressive models.

3. Help children to evaluate frustrating situations.

4. Use inductive discipline (limits-setting, reminding of rules, and

reasoning to elicit understanding from children about
socially-appropriate conduct and the potential harmful consequences
of their behavior on others).
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 Techniques for Controlling

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Aggression

5. Teach and reinforce behavior incompatible with aggression.

6. Use nonhurtful ways of dealing with aggressive children.

7. Stop persistent aggression by intervening and by attending to the victim.

8. Be attentive in routine play situations.

9. Work with parents.

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 MENTAL HEALTH
Group Process

Group process refers to how an

organization's members work together
to get things done.

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 MENTAL HEATLH
•Typically, organizations spend a great deal of time and
energy setting and striving to reach goals but give little
consideration to what is happening between and to the
group's greatest resource – it's members.

•Educational Psychologists have put emphasis on the

individual tended to result in neglect of the
socio-psychological factors as found in classrooms and
other school groups, such as student councils, homerooms,
clubs and other school activities.

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 MENTAL HEATLH
• Kurt Lewin stated that groups are dynamic and
powerful beings which have power to influence
individuals and communities.

• He made significant contributions to studies of

group dynamics - attitudes and behaviors within
the small groups

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 MENTAL HEALTH
Questions / Re lections:

•Sharing of experiences, ideas, etc.

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 You have a

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right to be
here!
You
matter.

Jomarie Pila Pogoy

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