Developing a Lesson to Improve the Attitudes of Primary School Students Toward Mental Disorder: A Case of Using Picture Book of Tourette Syndrome
碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 應用心理學系碩士在職專班 === 107 === The purpose of this study is to explore whether the “Understanding Mental disorder - Tourette syndrome” curriculum has the effect of improving the attitudes of elementary school students toward mental disorder. In this study, the participants were senior stud...
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2hb7dj |
| Summary: | 碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 應用心理學系碩士在職專班 === 107 === The purpose of this study is to explore whether the “Understanding Mental disorder - Tourette syndrome” curriculum has the effect of improving the attitudes of elementary school students toward mental disorder. In this study, the participants were senior students from the elementary school in Hsinchu. There were 101 students in experiment group taking the eighty-minute designed curriculum while 23 students in control group taking the traditional health curriculum. The researcher adopted quasi-experimental and pretest-posttest design to deal with each of the group. The pretest-posttest data from Attitudes toward Mental Illness (AMI) scale were used to have quantitative data analysis and the self-editing worksheets were for qualitative data analysis. The conclusions are listed below: 1. “Understanding Mental disorder - Tourette syndrome” curriculum is better than traditional curriculum for the students to have better improvement in cognition of mental disorder. 2. The curriculum could ameliorate students’ discrimination toward mental disorder. 3. The students’ attitudes toward the picture book of Tourette syndrome curriculum are generally positive. Therefore, “Understanding Mental disorder - Tourette syndrome” curriculum could help the students to have positive or amiable attitudes toward the people with mental disorder. It is suggested that schools could implement the mental disorder related curriculum in the future on the purpose of making students having correct attitude toward the patients.
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