Mental and emotional health is taught as part of health education.

A. Content standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention. Students will:

• (1) grades 9-12 benchmark 1: analyze how behavior can impact health maintenance and disease prevention; grades 9-12 performance Standard:
• (a) differentiate between risks and benefits regarding choices in the areas related to sexuality; nutrition; alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; physical activity; personal safety; mental, social and emotional well-being;
• (b) identify alternatives to health risk behaviors in the areas related to sexuality; nutrition; alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; physical activity; personal safety; mental, social and emotional well-being (i.e., abstinence, condom use, other pregnancy prevention methods, selection of healthy food choices, "natural highs," etc.);
• (c) identify ways to avoid health risk behaviors in the areas related to sexuality; nutrition; alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; physical activity; personal safety; mental, social and emotional well-being; discuss and analyze the difference(s) between healthy and unhealthy relationships;
• (d) explain how attitude(s) and behavior(s) affect health of self and others;