Mental health commission report July 2010 - June 2011 [.pdf]

Means and standard deviations for each feedback question are provided in the Tablebelow.Mean(SD)Relevance to Teaching 3.83 .85Enhancement of Knowledge 4.14 .64Enhancement of Skills 3.71 .85Appropriateness of Content Level 3.76 .74Integration of Content 3.90 .56Appropriateness of Depth of Coverage 3.38 .68Presentation Clarity 3.52 .69Presentation Stimulation 3.45 .74Value of Handouts 3.69 .71Overall Rating 4.00 .54Note. 5-point response choice scale where 1 = very irrelevant, no contribution, not appropriate, very poorly integratedand 5 = very highly relevant, very high contribution, very highly integrated, very highly appropriate. N = 29.A Selection of Qualitative Comments“The workshop is a good way to help children aware and enhance his/her self. If we canhelp a lot of children, we can reduce symptoms that show anxiety and depression inchildren so children have a good mental health and develop to be a good child.”“This program is really wonderful program to help child and teenagers to handle theirproblems, but maybe it will be little bit difficult to apply this program in Indonesianculture. But we have to try- try to optimism.”“It taught me a lot about optimism program in Aussie. But, I think this workshop needsmore time especially for discussion.”“I get a new side to think about people’s ways think.”“More interesting if handout and explanation with full Indonesian language, so we moreunderstand.”I attended the conference on the 5 th and 6 th of February and gave a Keynote Presentationon Saturday the 6 th of February. This presentation was entitled; Mental health Promotionin Schools. Outcomes from the Aussie Optimism Program. The presentation reported onthe outcomes, dissemination and sustainability of this mental health promotion program.