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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
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Exner-Cortens, Deinera; Wolfe, David; Crooks, Claire V.; Chiodo, Debbie – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2020
Bullying and mental health problems are pressing concerns for adolescents. Given their burden, we need to find efficacious ways to prevent these experiences. However, existing prevention programs tend to be single-issue and may not focus on the universal capacities required to reduce these problems among youth. To this end, we evaluated the…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Bullying, Mental Health, Adolescents
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Thompson, Aaron; Hollis, Steve; Herman, Keith C.; Reinke, Wendy M.; Hawley, Kristin; Magee, Shawndrea – School Psychology Review, 2020
Mental health (MH) stigma affects help seeking behaviors of youth, particularly youth of color. This article reports the impact of Look Around (LA), a social media campaign designed to reduce MH stigma and increase help seeking in 6th- to 12th-grade youth in one Midwestern county. The campaign utilized movie theater advertising, social media,…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Help Seeking, Social Bias, Program Effectiveness
Parker, Janise S.; Shum, Kai Zhuang; Suldo, Shannon M.; Shaunessy-Dedrick, Elizabeth; Ferron, John; Dedrick, Robert F. – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study explored how adaptive help seeking was related to academic self-efficacy, perfectionism (maladaptive and adaptive), attitudes towards help seeking (perceived benefits and perceived threats), and teacher emotional support among 311 grade 9 students in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate classes. Significant bivariate links…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Self Efficacy, Personality Traits, Student Attitudes
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Midford, Richard; Cahill, Helen; Geng, Gretchen; Leckning, Bernard; Robinson, Gary; Te Ava, Aue – Health Education Journal, 2017
Objective: This pilot study sought to better understand what can be achieved by an evidence-based classroom social and emotional education programme. Design and Methods: A 10-lesson, classroom-based programme that taught about emotional literacy, personal strengths, coping and problem-solving strategies, stress management, emotional regulation and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Strunk, Catherine M.; Sorter, Michael T.; Ossege, Julianne; King, Keith A. – Journal of School Nursing, 2014
Many school-based suicide prevention programs do not show a positive impact on help-seeking behaviors among emotionally troubled teens despite their being at high risk for suicide. This study is a secondary analysis of the Surviving the TeensĀ® program evaluation to determine its effect on help-seeking behaviors among troubled youth. Results showed…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Suicide, Prevention, Adolescents
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
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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