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Mental health: Psychology

• Course name: Mental health: Psychology
• Code discipline: XXX
• Subject area: Behavioral science: psychology

Short Description

This course covers the following concepts: Psychohygiene; Mental Health and Life balance; The nature of our emotional processes, emotional burnout; Willpower; Procrastination; Erickson’s principles of thinking; Different practices and tools that help achieve personal goals and maintain comfortable psychological condition.; What is the purpose of this course?; The rhythm of life is very high in the XXI century. Abundance of products and service is available for us as well as abundance of tasks, goals, contacts, responsibilities, contradictory information and at last temptations. Managing with all these stimuluses make a great workload for our psychic (brain), that can lead to some unpleasant consequences such as emotional burnout, high level of anxiety or even panic attacks, periods of apathy or depression, low level of self-esteem and so on. Usual techniques of psychohygiene help cope with high rhythm of life and prevent mental difficulties.; The goal of this course is to introduce basic elements of psychohygiene (care of mental health and well-being) that help students manage all the spheres of their life easier, more effective and with more pleasure.; Students will be provided with knowledge of how our brain works and get the opportunity to try exercises and algorithms, which help improve brain’s work and adaptability to life’s challenges. They will also be given some concept about healthy/ecological way of communication with people.; Course Objectives Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy; What should a student remember at the end of the course?; By the end of the course, the students should be able to remember and recognize:; The main principles and value of psychohygiene (caring about mental health and emotional condition) and life balance.; The nature and particular qualities of emotional life; The nature and working principles of will power; The nature and reasons of procrastination; The nature and signs of healthy communication, personal boundaries; What should a student be able to understand at the end of the course? (5-7 points for bachelors and 4-5 for masters); Why people always need to care about their psychological health and life balance?; How to define their emotions, emotional conditions and the reasons of them; How to prevent emotional burnout; The connection between their minds (type of thinking) and fortune; The features of their will power and personal reasons of procrastination; What should a student be able to apply at the end of the course?; By the end of the course, the students should be able to:; • Identify destructive thoughts (ideas) and reformulate/transform them into constructive/effective ones.; • Identify their emotions and cope with them (live them through ecologically); • Make goals, plans and do the work according to the plan/schedule in time; • Make decisions according to their lifegoals and cope with temptation.; • Understand and apply the principles of healthy self-esteem (healthy attitude towards yourself) and self-boundaries protection.; Course evaluation (Do you have any special weight on the course evaluations of components that affect the assessment of the development of the discipline? By default, it will be as below. If you think it should be different please indicate this in the `Proposed points' column); Table 1: Course grade breakdown; Cooperation Policy and Quotations:; Grades range (Does this class have any particularities of matching the grades with a five-point scale? By default, it will be as below. If you think that should be different, please indicate this in the `Proposed range' column):; Table 2: Course grading range; Resources and reference material; Textbook(s): -; The Full Life. Radislav Gandapas, 2018, АСТ; The Gestalt approach and Eye witness to therapy. F.Perls, Palo Alto, Ca.: Science and Behavior Books, 1973; The Willpower Instinct. Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., 2011 The USA; The Now Habit. Neil Fiore, Ph.D., 2007; Emotional Intelligence. Daniel Goleman, 1995; Secrets of Open Communication. Sergey Petrushin,; Course Sections; The main sections of the course and approximate hour distribution between them is as follows:.

Course Topics

Course Sections and Topics

Section	Topics within the section
The notion of mental health and ways of its maintaining. Psychohygiene. Life balance.	- The notion of mental health. - The reasons of psychohygiene. - The notion of Life balance and its maintaining
Managing your emotions: the healthy emotional condition	-- The notion and functions of emotions - Biological and Social emotions - Emotion management - Emotional burnout
Managing your mindset: effective life thinking	- How our minds define our fortune - The Effective principles of thinking (Erickson’s star)
Managing your behavior: how to switch on your willpower and cope with procrastination	- “How I choose what to do?”- the notion and nature of willpower - Tricks of our mind, connected with willpower and how to overcome them - The nature of procrastination and its reasons - Self-support as the best way of coping with procrastination - The rules of thinking for effective activity - Anti-timetable (anti-schedule) and reverse planning

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

What is the main purpose of this course?

The rhythm of life is very high in the XXI century. Abundance of products and service is available for us as well as abundance of tasks, goals, contacts, responsibilities, contradictory information and at last temptations. Managing with all these stimuluses make a great workload for our psychic (brain), that can lead to some unpleasant consequences such as emotional burnout, high level of anxiety or even panic attacks, periods of apathy or depression, low level of self-esteem and so on. Usual techniques of psychohygiene help cope with high rhythm of life and prevent mental difficulties.

ILOs defined at three levels

Level 1: What concepts should a student know/remember/explain?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...

• The main principles and value of psychohygiene (caring about mental health and emotional condition) and life balance.
• The nature and particular qualities of emotional life
• The nature and working principles of will power
• The nature and reasons of procrastination
• The nature and signs of healthy communication, personal boundaries

Level 2: What basic practical skills should a student be able to perform?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...

• How to define their emotions, emotional conditions and the reasons of them
• How to prevent emotional burnout
• The connection between their minds (type of thinking) and fortune
• The features of their will power and personal reasons of procrastination

Level 3: What complex comprehensive skills should a student be able to apply in real-life scenarios?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...

• • Identify destructive thoughts (ideas) and reformulate/transform them into constructive/effective ones.
• • Identify their emotions and cope with them (live them through ecologically)
• • Make goals, plans and do the work according to the plan/schedule in time
• • Make decisions according to their lifegoals and cope with temptation.
• • Understand and apply the principles of healthy self-esteem (healthy attitude towards yourself) and self-boundaries protection.

Grading

Course grading range

Grade	Range	Description of performance
A. Excellent	90-100	-
B. Good	75-89	-
C. Satisfactory	50-74	-
D. Poor	0-49	-

Course activities and grading breakdown

Activity Type	Percentage of the overall course grade
Attendance	50
Assesments	50

Resources, literature and reference materials

Open access resources

• The Full Life. Radislav Gandapas, 2018, АСТ
• The Gestalt approach and Eye witness to therapy. F.Perls, Palo Alto, Ca.: Science and Behavior Books, 1973
• The Willpower Instinct. Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., 2011 The USA
• The Now Habit. Neil Fiore, Ph.D., 2007
• Emotional Intelligence. Daniel Goleman, 1995
• Secrets of Open Communication. Sergey Petrushin,
• Course Sections
• The main sections of the course and approximate hour distribution between them is as follows:

Teaching Methodology: Methods, techniques, & activities

Activities and Teaching Methods

Activities within each section

Learning Activities	Section 1	Section 2	Section 3	Section 4
Essay (written based)	1	0	0	0
Discussions	1	0	0	0

Formative Assessment and Course Activities

Final assessment

Section 1

Section 2

1. 1. Why do we need emotions?
2. 2. Describe the base emotions and tell how we can manage them.
3. 3. Describe the social emotions and tell how we can work with them.

Section 3

Section 4

1. 1. Tell about the part of our brain responsible for Willpower?
2. 3. What are our mind tricks, connected with willpower and how to overcome them?
3. 4. Describe the possible algorithm of coping with self-blaming.
4. 5. Describe the thinking principles for effective activity.

The retake exam

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4