Mental Health Resources for ELL Instructors-Egal Shidad Somali ELL Lessons

Additional Lesson Resources to use with the Egal Shidad English Language Learning Activities

Cultural Adjustment and Mental Health—The Role of the ESL Teacher contains useful insights for ELL instructors.

A picture story about depression from the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL).  Other health-related ELL materials are on available on the CAL site.

Reading material for beginning students are available from the National Center for Farmworker Health as a 2-page illustrated patient education sheet, Tips to Reduce Stress. Available in English and Spanish.

Check out Medlineplus and its Easy-to-Read section for downloadable mental health information to share with, or read to, students.  Note: be sure to review materials ahead of time as “Easy to read” is a broadly defined at this site.

Additional Information on Somali Mental Health

Somali Mental Health (PDF) is a good, brief overview of mental health issues specific to Somalis. Co-written by David McGraw Schuchman, the final mental health provider interviewed in the Egal Shidad Mental Health video.

Egal Shidad: Stories of Somali Health is a New Routes program that provides mental health information for Somalis and those working with Somalis. Through storytelling it encourages Somalis to seek resources. English subtitles provided. Free DVD offered in addtion to the online version you can watch.

Somali Conceptions and Expectations Concerning Mental Health: Some guidelines for mental health professionals was originally published in the New Zealand Journal of Psychology.

When the Poetry No Longer Rhymes: Mental Health Issues Among Somali Immigrants in the USA full text available from Sage Publications by clicking “begin manual download.”

Topics: Capacity Building, Community Health, English Language Learning-ELL, Immigrants, Language, Public Health, Translation