Program development
mental illness
DISORDERS
The program was called the WATASHI-KOKO (“We are here” in Japanese) PROGRAM. It involved a 30-min video-based e-learning program for elementary schoolteachers, which was designed to help them support children of parents with mental illness. It aimed to help schoolteachers gain basic knowledge about mental illness and children of parents with mental illness (Purpose 1), recognize children in need of support (Purpose 2), and gain confidence in supporting them (Purpose 3).The program was created with the support of “KODOMO-PEER” (“children’s companions” in Japanese), which is the largest self-help group for adult children of parents with mental illness in Japan. The program content was created based on a childhood needs survey that received responses from adult children of parents with mental illness [To gain basic knowledge about mental illness (Purpose 1), the program content was created with reference to previous research on a mental health literacy education program for schoolteachers [Components of the programTo gain basic knowledge about children of parents with mental illness (Purpose 1), the program content was created based on a survey that received responses from adult children of parents with mental illness [To help schoolteachers recognize children in need of support (Purpose 2), the program content was developed based on the survey that received responses from adult children of parents with mental illness [To help schoolteachers gain confidence in supporting children in need of support (Purpose 3), the program content was developed based on the survey [Theoretically, the program content was also based on a four-tiered approach for delivering professional development programs related to parental mental disorders [In accordance with the learning process, the content structure of the program was based on the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of health behavior change by Prochaska et al. [Gagné’s instruction is an effective process when teaching others [The specifics of the program are shown in Table 