“one of the factors we had to overcome when working with the educators on the website was their initial feelings of inadequacy about dealing with student mental health. We heard statements such as ‘mission impossible,’ ‘I am struggling too,’ and ‘I will have to ask my school board mental health lead if I can participate.” (Yet One More Expectation for Teachers, P119). “Mental health professionals must remember that building teacher capacity in MHL feels overwhelming to teachers as learners: they are not experts, they know it, and the problems are severe” (Yet One More Expectation for Teachers, P119).
The mental health knowledge and issues are not only happening on students but also happens to teachers. Since teachers are not supermen and superwomen, they cannot know every single knowledge. Teachers also would have felt overwhelming in their work. However, in fact, it is less to think about teachers’ wellness and their mental health cares. I personally think the mental and wellness health problems that teachers have are coming from the students because the teachers struggle with students every day in every single detailed matter. However, teacher, as the teaching role, instead of mental health treatment role, they are actually working on many types of roles. Teachers take care of students’ academic works and daily life, even students’ physical health. While teachers are doing all these works, they have to take care about the students are on the pace of academic learning, which is very hard for the teacher to balance so many different matters into a good direction. So I think the role clarify is really needed. School should provide more supports for students’ mental health knowledge and other fields so that teachers could easily pay attention to academic teaching.