MAPEH 9 - HEALTH - QUARTER 4 - VIDEO LESSON 1

Key Concepts

• Intentional Injuries: Injuries resulting from purposeful human action, whether directed at oneself or others.
• Self-Inflicted Injuries: Injuries one causes to oneself.
• Suicide: The intentional taking of one's own life.
• Parasuicide: A suicide attempt where the person doesn't intend to die, often a cry for help.
• Domestic Violence: Abuse within a domestic setting, including physical, sexual, and verbal abuse.
• Bullying: Unwanted, aggressive behavior involving an imbalance of power and repetition.
• Verbal Bullying: Bullying through words, including name-calling and threats.
• Social Bullying: Bullying that damages reputation or relationships.
• Physical Bullying: Bullying involving physical harm or damage to property.
• Cyberbullying: Bullying using technology and electronic means.
• Extortion: Obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.
• Stalking: Willful and repeated following, watching, or harassing of another person.

Intentional Injuries, Types, and Characteristics

This learning module focuses on intentional injuries, differentiating them from unintentional injuries, and describing various types of intentional injuries.

Pre-Test and Recap

The module begins with a pre-test consisting of multiple-choice questions to assess prior knowledge of terms like "self-inflicted," "domestic violence," "stalking," and "extortion." A recap crossword puzzle reinforces these definitions.

Self-Inflicted Injuries and Suicide

• Definition: Self-inflicted injuries are those a person brings upon themselves.
• Suicide: Defined as the intentional taking of one's own life. The module emphasizes that families often hide suicide attempts due to shame, preventing individuals from receiving necessary mental and emotional counseling.
• Parasuicide: A suicide attempt where the person does not intend to die, often a "cry for help." Despite the lack of intent to die, parasuicide should be taken seriously as it can still lead to death.
• Recognizing Suicidal Tendencies: Clues include talking about suicide or death, writing farewell letters, giving away valuable possessions, and changes in behavior, moods, and feelings.

Domestic Violence

• Definition: Domestic violence encompasses physical assault (hitting, pushing, shoving), sexual abuse (unwanted or forced sexual activity), and verbal abuse. It involves one person in a relationship attempting to control the other.
• Examples of Abuse: Name-calling, isolating a partner from family and friends, preventing a partner from working, threats of physical harm, sexual assault, stalking, and intimidation.
• Victims: Anyone can be a victim, especially if their partner exhibits jealousy, spies, prevents relationship termination, inflicts harm, is violent, puts them down, forces unwanted sexual activity, abuses substances, pressures substance use, or blames others for past relationship failures.

Bullying

• Definition: Bullying is unwanted aggressive behavior that is repeated or has the potential to be repeated. It can cause serious lasting problems for both the bully and the victim.
• Key Characteristics:
  • Imbalance of Power: Bullies use physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity to control or harm others.
  • Repetition: Bullying behavior occurs more than once or has the potential to recur.
• Classifications of Bullying:
  • Verbal Bullying: Saying or writing mean things, including teasing, name-calling, inappropriate sexual comments, taunting, and threats.
  • Social Bullying: Hurting someone's reputation or relationships, such as excluding someone, spreading rumors, or embarrassing someone in public. Also referred to as relational bullying.
  • Physical Bullying: Harming a person's body or destroying their possessions, including hitting, kicking, pinching, spitting, pushing, and taking or breaking belongings.
  • Cyberbullying: Verbal and social bullying using technology, including social media, mobile devices, and email.

Activities

The module includes activities to check understanding and promote self-reflection:

• "How Safe Am I?" Chart: Students assess their experiences with various problems (witnessed or experienced) using a scale of "never," "rarely," "sometimes," or "often." Guide questions prompt reflection on the situations, perpetrators, personal responses, feelings of safety, and potential preventative measures.
• "Wrap Up Activity": Students draw a plant and write the names of trusted individuals on the leaves. They then consider whom they would approach for help in specific scenarios (bullying, verbal abuse, extortion, sexual abuse, suicidal thoughts, physical abuse) and explain their reasoning.

Valuing Activity

Students write a reflection on the lessons learned and their relevance to their lives, citing specific instances where the knowledge will be useful.

Post-Test

The module concludes with a post-test, mirroring the pre-test, to assess learning outcomes.

Synthesis/Conclusion

The learning module provides a comprehensive overview of intentional injuries, focusing on self-inflicted injuries, domestic violence, and bullying. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing warning signs, understanding the dynamics of abuse, and identifying trusted individuals for support. The activities encourage self-reflection and application of the learned concepts to real-life situations. The module aims to equip learners with the knowledge and awareness necessary to prevent and address intentional injuries in their communities.