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Mental Health Education
This section explores various mental illnesses, severe emotional disturbances, and developmental disabilities. Choose a link below to find more information about a specific diagnosis.
Adults with Mental Illness and Children with Severe Emotional Disturbance
Mental Illness is a substantial disorder of thought or mood that significantly impairs an adult's judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to cope with the ordinary demands of life. If an individual has a mental illness as well as a substance use disorder, they are said to have a “co-occurring” disorder, or “dual diagnosis”.
Severe Emotional Disturbance is a condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
Adults and Children with Developmental Disability
A Developmental Disability is a severe, chronic disability in an individual five years of age or older that: is attributable to a mental or physical impairment, or a combination of mental and physical impairments; is manifested before the person attains age 22; is likely to continue indefinitely; results in substantial functional limitations in three or more areas of major life activity; and reflects the individual's need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic services, individualized supports, or other forms of assistance that are of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated.
