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Universal, School-Based Mental Health Literacy Programs for Middle School Students: A Scoping Review
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Direct linkClaire P. Zachik; Sarah C. Collica; Jacob White; Candice Espinoza; Karen L. Swartz; Mariel L. Cataldi – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: Universal, classroom-based mental health literacy (MHL) curricula are associated with improved mental health knowledge, attitudes, and help-seeking behaviors. Young adolescents are an ideal target given their need for and receptivity toward MHL education. Methods: We conducted a scoping review to identify universal, school-based MHL…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Health Programs, Multiple Literacies, Middle School Students
Yifeng Wei; Robert Mcweeny; Cheryl Shinkaruk; Andrew Baxter; Andrew Greenshaw; Stan Kutcher – American Journal of Health Education, 2025
Background: Mental disorders most likely manifest during adolescence, providing opportunities for schools and professionals to implement standardized mental health literacy (MHL) interventions to support improvement of mental health outcomes. Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of an MHL intervention (the Guide) on knowledge, stigma,…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Health Behavior, Resources, Grade 8
Zare, Somayeh; Kaveh, Mohammad Hossein; Ghanizadeh, Ahmad; Asadollahi, Abdolrahim; Nazari, Mahin – Health Education Journal, 2021
Background and objective: Considering the worldwide increase in mental health problems among adolescents and the hypothetical positive impact of mental health literacy (MHL) on mental health promotive behaviours, this study examined the effect of a MHL intervention in a sample of Iranian high school students. Design: Educational intervention with…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Females, Knowledge Level, Health Behavior
Wang, Cixin; Barlis, Julia; Do, Kieu Anh; Chen, Jingqiu; Alami, Sandra – School Mental Health, 2020
Adolescents are most likely to receive mental health services in schools compared to other settings; however, few studies have examined barriers to mental health help seeking at school for ethnic minority adolescents. The current mixed-methods study utilized surveys and semi-structured interviews to explore the mental health literacy (MHL),…
Descriptors: Barriers, Help Seeking, School Health Services, Asian American Students
Download full textSupovitz, Jonathan; Fink, Ryan; Newman, Bobbi – AERA Open, 2016
Developing instructional capacity in schools is a central challenge of the Common Core movement. Most conceptualizations of capacity building focus on infusing externally generated professional development into schools. In this article, we explore the professional resources that reside inside schools that might be utilized to develop instructional…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Capacity Building, Faculty Development, Educational Resources
Naik, Reetu; Stojakovic, Zoran – Online Submission, 2014
The Student Substance Use and Safety Survey, administered annually to a random, representative sample of AISD middle and high school students, provides self-report data on student knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to substance use and school safety issues. These are the results from the spring 2014 survey.
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Wong, Eunice C.; Cerully, Jennifer L.; Collings, Rebecca L.; Roth, Elizabeth – RAND Corporation, 2014
The study presented in this report evaluates the effects of a school-based theatrical performance "Walk In Our Shoes" on a group of predominantly Latino youth in Santa Barbara County, California. The performance follows the lives of four (fictional) high school students and introduces their various experiences with both mental health…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Drama, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic American Students
Washington, Ahmad Rashad – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative study was conducted with a sample of five (5) middle school African American adolescent men from two different schools in the same school district to explore their perceptions of and experiences with their professional school counselors. Phenomenological qualitative methodology was used to complete this study. To gather research…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, African American Students, Adolescents, Males
Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
