Listening to a Mental Health Provider-Egal Shidad Somali ELL Lessons

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These activities provide an excellent opportunity for students to listen to an English-speaker talk about mental health. Instructors can use any number of video clips and their matching transcripts below to help students work with mental-health related vocabulary and concepts.

These lessons are intended for by teachers of adult Somali ELLs in conjunction with the Egal Shidad Mental Health Video. 

All materials and media you will need for this lesson are listed below.

• Listening to a Mental Health Provider Lesson & Video Segment Transcripts

• The Egal Shidad Mental Health Video
  

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English-language Video Segments and Transcripts

• Symptoms of Depression
  • Transcript
  • Video Clip 1-symptoms of depression
    
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Transcript
  • Video Clip 2-PTSD
• Schizophrenia
  
  • Transcript
  • Video Clip 3-schizophrenia
• Physical Symptoms
  
  • Transcript
  • Video Clip 4-physical symptoms
• Effective Treatment
  
  • Transcript
  • Video Clip 5-treatment
• Medicine for Chemical Imbalances
  
  • Transcript
  • Video Clip 6-chemical imbalances
• Where to Get Help
  
  • Transcript
  • Video Clip 7-where to get help

• Closing Activity (PDF)

More information about using all of the Egal Shidad ELL Activities is located on our root page or you go directly to a full list of the Egal Shidad mental health-related ELL materials and resources. 

Tags: Depression, Islam, PTSD
Topics: Community Health, English Language Learning-ELL, Health Care, Immigrants, Language, Mental health, Public Health, Refugees, Translation
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