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Direct linkSamantha Reaves; Brittany Parham; Kristen Figas; Brooke Chehoski; Karah Palmer; Mark D. Weist – American Journal of Health Education, 2025
Background: School mental health literacy programs, delivered at the universal level, are key to promoting positive behavioral health for all youth. Successfully implementing these programs requires adaptation to ensure the programs are aligned with contextual demands of the schools in which they are implemented. Yet, little is known about how to…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Program Implementation, Middle Schools, Student Welfare
Download full textUK Department for Education, 2025
This research was conducted by the Department for Education (DfE) to explore the models, uses and perceived outcomes of in-school support units within mainstream schools in England. Ten mainstream secondary schools across England, including 12 members of school staff, were interviewed by DfE social researchers to understand the purpose, use and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Nontraditional Education, Pupil Personnel Services
Jessica Deighton; Abigail Thompson; Neil Humphrey; Emma Thornton; Christopher Knowles; Praveetha Patalay; Kyann Zhang; Sarah Evans-Lacko; Daniel Hayes; Anna March; Rosie Mansfield; Joao Santos; Emre Deniz; Paul Stallard; Emma Ashworth; Bettina Moltrecht; Kirsty Nisbet; Emily Stapley; Carla Mason; Jessica Stepanous; Jan Rasmus Boehnke – UK Department for Education, 2025
The aim of the AWARE (Approaches for Wellbeing and Mental Health Literacy:?Research?in Education) trial was to assess the impact of two interventions that have already been developed and found to be effective in other countries (Kutcher et al., 2015; Wasserman et al., 2015) to see if they might be effective in improving mental health related…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Intervention, Consciousness Raising, Secondary Schools
Eliza S. Godfrey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Educators have limited knowledge of youth mental health disorders, treatment, and school-based supportive strategies. Mental health literacy (MHL) interventions are designed to promote educator understanding of youth mental health. The Go-To Educator Training is a MHL intervention developed for educators. The current study extended research on the…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Mental Health, Multiple Literacies, Intervention
Jia Ma; Stephen W. Smith; Brian R. Barber – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2025
Early adolescents entering middle school are at a pivotal developmental phase as they become less dependent on parents/guardians and seek greater autonomy while encountering a complexity of social demands requiring them to regulate their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to achieve academic and social success. Yet, students who receive services…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Middle School Students, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders
Upasna Seth – Journal of Education, 2024
This is a school-based intervention study to promote food label understanding among early adolescents. The researcher assessed the existing nutrition knowledge, attitude, and understanding of food labels. Based on Bandura's social cognitive theory, an educational program was developed. The change was accessed from pre- and post-test intervention…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Nutrition, Merchandise Information, Foreign Countries
Annie Slease; Dareen Khatib; Teri Lawler; Sabra Collins; Nicole Kennedy; Donna Volpitta; Jason Schofield – American Journal of Health Education, 2025
Background: Youth mental health needs have worsened following COVID-19. Rising demand for school mental health services is straining capacity. Several states have added policies requiring mental health education, yet these vary widely and barriers to operationalization exist. Purpose: This paper explores the onerous landscape of mental health…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Multiple Literacies, Health Education, Middle School Students
Universal, School-Based Mental Health Literacy Programs for Middle School Students: A Scoping Review
Claire 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
Walsh, Eibhlin H.; Herring, Matthew P.; McMahon, Jennifer – Prevention Science, 2023
Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among adolescents, globally. Though post-primary, school-based suicide prevention (PSSP) has the potential to be a key strategy for preventing adolescent suicidal thoughts and behaviours (STBs), there are persisting challenges to translating PSSP research to practice. Intervention and contextual factors…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, School Health Services, Suicide, Prevention
Elizabeth Jane Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Most recent data confirms that the transition and learning "gap between youth and young adults (ages 14-24) with and without disabilities remains significant despite decades of federal and state legislation intended to improve education and employment opportunities" (Cheng & Shaewitz, 2020, p. 28). Researchers have highlighted that…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Emotional Disturbances, Student Experience, Phenomenology
Nikki S. Rickard; Tan-Chyuan Chin; Donna Cross; John Hattie; Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
Previous research has demonstrated wellbeing benefits for positive education programmes (PEPs) facilitated by clinicians or experts or outside the school context. The current study explored the effects of a Year 10 PEP led by teachers trained in positive education and embedded within the Australian secondary school context. A mixed-methods design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students, Private Schools
Gisselle Soto Rivas; Margaret Canady; Gina Klemm; Jessica L. Barrington-Trimis; Alyssa F. Harlow – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: Mental health care is critical to improving mental health but factors associated with student utilization are poorly understood. Methods: Data were from high school students (N = 2933; mean age = 15.7 ± 0.6) enrolled in a California cohort. We examined associations of sociodemographic factors, substance use, and mental health symptoms…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Health Programs, Adolescents, High School Students
Dariotis, Jacinda K.; Mabisi, Keren; Jackson-Gordon, Rachel; Yang, Nan; Rose, Emma Jane; Mendelson, Tamar; Fishbein, Diana H. – Prevention Science, 2023
Determining the factors that influence implementation of school-based wellbeing and health programs is essential for achieving desired program effects. Using a convergent mixed-methods, multiple informant design, this study considered factors that influence implementation of health programs for ninth grade students and in what ways implementation…
Descriptors: Students, Grade 9, Well Being, Health Programs
WestEd, 2024
Project Cal-Well is a cross-agency mental health initiative led by the California Department of Education focused on building capacity for sustainable school-based mental health systems in local educational agencies (LEAs) throughout California. As part of a series highlighting the work of Project Cal-Well partners in Cohort 2 (2019-2024), this…
Descriptors: School Districts, High Schools, Mental Health, Mental Health Programs
Goh, Tan Leng; Leong, Chee Hoi; Fede, Marybeth; Ciotto, Carol – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Despite the positive impact of social and emotional learning (SEL) on the emotional well-being of children, literature on physical activity engagement and SEL among this population has been limited. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine whether school students' SEL would improve after participation in a before-school…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Program Effectiveness, Social Emotional Learning, Grade 4
