The Mental Health Minute
April 2020 Volume 13
From the CFISD Mental Health Intervention Team
Managing Stress and Maintaining Your Mental Health During COVID-19
What is Compassion Resilience for Educators?
Teacher resilience is defined as “using energy productively to achieve school goals and meet students’ needs in the face of adversity” . Compassion is the combination of the consciousness of others’ distress and a desire to alleviate it. It is a basic quality needed to be able to meet students’ needs. Compassion resilience for those in the education field is:
- The ability to maintain our physical, emotional and mental well-being (using energy productively) while compassionately identifying and addressing the stressors that are barriers to learning for students,
- Identifying and addressing the barriers to caregivers/ parents and colleagues being able to effectively partner on behalf of children, and
- Identifying, preventing, and minimizing compassion fatigue within ourselves.
Think of this resilience as a reservoir of well-being that we can draw upon on difficult days and in difficult situations.
Compassion Resilience COVID-19 Toolkit
https://compassionresiliencetoolkit.org/parents-caregivers/compassion-resilience/
Access these toolkits to view PDFs and videos addressing how we can foster resilience not only as educators but also as parents/guardians, caregivers, spouses, friends and humans during this challenging time!
"Empathy is a finite resource. You can run out. As a normal, psychological response, you cannot give of yourself again and again and again without replenishing." -Contemplative Based Resilience Project
Caregivers and Stress
Take a moment to relax the muscles
Mental Health and Coping During COVID-19
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may be stressful for people. Fear and anxiety about a disease can be overwhelming and cause strong emotions in adults and children. Coping with stress will make you, the people you care about, and your community stronger.
Mental Health Telehealth Support Available
The below information contains only a partial listing of the many resources that are available within our area and Harris County in general. We are not in a position to recommend one person or one facility over another.
Virtual COVID-19 Parent Support Groups
COVID-19 Telehealth Services for Parents
State of Texas COVID-19 Mental Health Support Line
The Anxiety Center of Houston Offers Telehealth
Benjamin's Behavioral Health Offers Telehealth
Amy Wine Counseling Offers Telehealth
Grief Recovery Center Offers Telehealth
Life's Journey Counseling Offers Telehealth
Cy-Hope Counseling Offers Telehealth
Renewing Hope Counseling Center Offers Telehealth
Shield Bearer Counseling Center Offers Telehealth
MT Counseling Center Offers Telehealth
Woodland Springs Hospital Offers Telehealth
https://woodlandspringshealth.com/resources/online-therapy-guide/
SUN Behavioral Hospital Offers Telehealth
Cypress Creek Hospital Offers Telehealth
Kingwood Pines Offers Telehealth
Westpark Springs Offers Telehealth
Discovery Behavioral Offers Telehealth
Virtual mental health assessments and outpatient therapy
Harris Center for Mental Health Offers 24/7 COVID-19 Line
Here for Texas Offers Mental Health Resources
MHA Houston Offers Mental Health Resources
Spotlighting one of our own
Kahla Middle School teacher Valerie Reed shares the importance of being sensitive to the needs of students and being supportive when they have experienced a loss. In this video she talks about students who are suffering from grief, loss and trauma.