Understanding Suicide Prevention
This worksheet helps 6th-grade students understand the importance of mental health, identifying signs of distress, and knowing how to seek help for themselves or others, focusing on suicide prevention.
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Understanding Suicide Prevention
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet is designed to help you understand important topics related to mental health and how to support yourself and others.
1. Which of the following is a healthy way to cope with stress or sadness?
Ignoring your feelings
Talking to a trusted adult
Keeping everything to yourself
Spending a lot of time alone
2. If a friend tells you they are feeling very sad or hopeless, what is the best thing to do?
Tell them to cheer up
Keep it a secret to protect them
Tell a trusted adult right away
Try to solve their problems yourself
3. Mental health is just as important as health.
4. A trusted adult could be a parent, teacher, coach, or school .
5. It's normal to feel sad sometimes, but if sadness lasts a very long time or feels overwhelming, it's important to get help.
True
False
6. Talking about feelings of sadness or hopelessness makes them worse.
True
False
7. List two signs that someone might be struggling with their mental health.
8. Why is it important to reach out for help if you or someone you know is feeling overwhelmed or hopeless?
9. Draw a picture that represents 'asking for help' or 'support'.