Secondary School Wellbeing and Achievement
Online Student Programs
YCDI! Education was first developed for secondary students.
Helps students cope with stress of exams, schoolwork, relationships.
Supports students mental health.
Overcomes blockers of anxiety, feeling down, anger, procrastination.
Confidence, persistence, organisation, getting along, resilience.
Teaches students how to change the way they think.
03. Program Achieve Secondary
A Preventative Mental Health Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum
(year levels 7 - 10)
To be delivered across four terms covering the following topics:
- Achievement:
Work Confidence (growth mindset), Persistence, Organisation and Teamwork - Relationships:
Values, Character Strengths and Getting Along Skills - Wellbeing.
Resilience and Happiness - Social-Emotional Blockers:
Anger, Not Paying Attention, Procrastination, Worry and Feeling Down
The program includes a Mental Health Activity Guide that provides an outline of selected activities to prevent and reduce mental health challenges for students.
The program includes brain-based activities to capture students’ attention and motivation and help them stay focused throughout the lesson. Click here to read more.
04.a The Successful Mind for School, Work and Life
Leader's Guide
(year levels 9 - 12)
Dr Michael Bernard designed this 10-session program to fit comfortably into the packed upper-secondary school timetable.
A review of the research revealed the elements or capabilities of the mental makeup of upper-level, high-performing, emotionally healthy students with positive relationships.
These 10 elements are
- Growth Mindset
- Character Strength
- Goal Setting
- Resilience
- Mindfulness
- Self-acceptance
- Optimism
- GRIT
- Time Management
- Getting Along
The digital Leader’s Guide contains background information and a session plan for each of the 10 sessions.
04.b The Successful Mind for School, Work and Life
Student Handbook
(year levels 9 - 12)
This Student Handbook is a requirement for all students participating in The Successful Mind for School, Work and Life course.
It contains various content, including activity worksheets students complete for each of the 10 sessions, tips, and individual action plans completed after a session.
00. Accepting Myself. How to Help Young People Feel Worthwhile No Matter What
(ages 9 -16+)
This program includes 12-month access to a three-part, online eLearning program that takes 30 to 60 minutes to complete.
Accepting Myself, also known as self-acceptance, is an engaging, innovative, social and emotional eLearning student intervention program. Students learn a psychological superpower to feel worthwhile no matter what!
For ages 9 -16+, this eLearning program is not a game. It incorporates the latest developments in online, interactive instructional technology.
Throughout the three parts, students engage with interactive activities that help personalise and learn a psychological superpower to feel worthwhile no matter what! The student program takes 30 to 60 minutes to complete and provides students with a downloadable tool kit to keep.
Includes the three-part student program, leaders’ resources, and parent guide.
06. Bullying - The Power to Cope
(year levels 4 - 9)
Dr Michael Bernard developed this program to help students being teased or bullied restructure their stress-creating, extremely negative self-talk (ways of thinking) into more moderate, less stress-producing self-talk.
Students learn the importance of not taking anti-social behaviour personally and that they can tolerate different forms of bullying, including cyberbullying.
Published research from the University of Melbourne shows the program’s powerful impact.
Independently reviewed and listed in the Beyond Blue Be You Programs Directory.
Listen to our Featured Podcast about this program.
05. The You Can Do It! Education Resource Book
What it is. Why we need it. How to do it.
The You Can Do It! Education Resource Book is a must-have collection of downloadable, shareable resources for educators that support, energise and build competence in social-emotional learning.
This comprehensive collection of 80+ YCDI! Insights include brief articles on how to use YCDI!s Program Achieve curriculum, best classroom and school-wide practices, surveys, posters, award certificates, parent education, overcoming student social-emotional difficulties, implementation guidelines and much more!
It is an invaluable online resource ideal for teachers wishing to learn more about explaining and teaching students positive attitudes and social-emotional skills.
Unsurprisingly, evaluations of social and emotional learning programs reveal that for a maximum number of students to be positively affected by SEL programs, SEL must occur beyond just the regular teaching of lessons from SEL curricula (e.g., Program Achieve).
07. Strengthening Attitudes and Behaviours for Learning
Activities for Students with Achievement & Behaviour Challenges
(year levels 5 - 12)
Developed to provide student support staff (tutors, counsellors, special educators, teachers and teacher aids, education assistants, and behaviour management specialists) with practical activities they can present to individual and small groups of students so that they develop the attitudes and behaviours for learning needed to engage in classroom learning and homework to achieve their personal best.
National Mentoring Pilot Project
School of Social Sciences
Cardiff University, Wales
Featured Blogs
- The Many Different Faces of Underachieving Students. Misguided Beliefs
- Academic Procrastination and Low Frustration Tolerance
- Self-Acceptance: The Psychological 'Armour' that Protects Young People
- Student Wellbeing and Student Mental Health: Opposing Forces
- 10 Steps for Implementing Social-Emotional Learning in Secondary School
Free Resilience Explainer Video for
students, parents and teachers
