Journaling as a Social-Emotional Teaching Practice to Promote Adolescent Mental Health

Author(s)

Mackenzie RobertsonFollow

Abstract

Given the current state of education in the United States, there has been an influx in the number of adolescents diagnosed with a mental illness or have experienced struggles with their mental health. Because of this, Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) strategies have been introduced further into adolescent education to bolster the skills students learned in their youths. To assist in the promotion of the five SEL competencies, different journaling strategies can be introduced to impact adolescent mental health positively and continue to practice SEL for life beyond high school. The purpose of this research is to introduce these strategies to pre-service teachers so that they can be taught across contents for the betterment of the American youth. A professional development session was held for pre-service teachers at Bowling Green State University to discuss journaling methods and how they can be effectively used in 7-12 classrooms.

Department

Honors Program

Major

Integrated Social Studies Education

First Advisor

Arthur Lewandowski

First Advisor Department

Education

Second Advisor

Monica Longmore

Second Advisor Department

Sociology

Third Advisor

Jeremy Harmon

Third Advisor Department

Music Education

Publication Date

Spring 4-29-2022

Repository Citation

Robertson, Mackenzie, "Journaling as a Social-Emotional Teaching Practice to Promote Adolescent Mental Health" (2022). Honors Projects. 803.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/honorsprojects/803