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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
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Direct linkLaura Hall – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Service user involvement is imperative in the delivery of mental health services. However, a paucity of research has explored how individuals with a learning disability find waiting for therapy. Therefore, this project aimed to explore how service users accessing a community learning disability team experienced waiting for…
Descriptors: Individual Psychology, Therapy, Mental Health Programs, Learning Disabilities
Ramluggun, Pras; Kozlowska, Olga; Mansbridge, Sarah; Rioga, Margaret; Anjoyeb, Mahmood – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how faculty staff on health and social care programmes support students with mental health issues. Design/methodology/approach: The study used a qualitative survey design to gain in-depth information on faculty staff experiences. Seventy-one faculty staff at two universities in the South East of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Needs, Mental Health, College Faculty
Devapriam, J.; Fosker, H.; Chester, V.; Gangadharan, S.; Hiremath, A.; Alexander, R. T. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Rehabilitation services for people with mental illnesses have been extensively researched. However, services with similar aims and specifications for patients with intellectual disabilities (IDs) have had little focus. This study describes the characteristics and outcomes of 21 patients admitted to a specialist ID rehabilitation service over an…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Patients, Intellectual Disability, Rehabilitation
Rice O'Toole, A.; Soan, Sue – Pastoral Care in Education, 2022
This paper reports on key findings from a mixed method study analysing how teachers in secondary schools (students aged 11-19) in London and South East England view and experience pastoral care provided to students with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs. In England there is statistical evidence which shows schools are increasingly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Psychological Needs, Mental Health
France, Emily; Billington, Kate – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2020
This study was interested in the views of Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSAs) in one English county. Support staff from ten schools experienced 7 days of ELSA training over one academic year and attended four supervision sessions led by educational psychologists over the subsequent 12 months. Five ELSAs were interviewed about their views…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Supervision, Emotional Development, Social Development
Dalgarno, Mark; Oates, Jennifer – Health Education Journal, 2019
Objectives: This study explored healthcare professionals' accounts of being practitioner trainers in a mental health Recovery College, where they worked with peer trainers, who were people with lived experience of mental illness, to co-produce workshops for mental health service users and staff. The aim of this study was to understand the process…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Personnel, Trainers, Mental Disorders
Brown, Ceri; Dixon, Jeremy – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
Child mental health is a growing concern for policymakers across the global north. Schools have become a key site for mental health interventions, with new programmes aimed at promoting 'resilience', through which children may maintain or regain mental health during adversity. As one of the first studies to explore the early impact of intensive…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Health Promotion, Mental Health Programs, Program Effectiveness
Wong, Bonnie; Cripps, Danielle; White, Hayley; Young, Laura; Kovshoff, Hanna; Pinkard, Hayley; Woodcock, Colin – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2020
This study explores primary school aged children's perspectives and experiences of their Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) support. Thematic analysis was employed to analyse qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with 12 Key Stage 2 participants, who had had a minimum of one month's ongoing ELSA support. Four core themes were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Emotional Development, Social Development
Ford, Tamsin – Psychology of Education Review, 2018
In this commentary on Neil Humphrey's "Are the Kids Alright? Examining the Intersection between Education and Mental Health" (EJ1247696), Tamsin Ford agrees with Humphrey's argument that moral panic or not, a significant proportion of children experience difficulties that interfere with their education and outlines the significant…
Descriptors: Child Health, Mental Health, Well Being, School Health Services
Cale, Lorraine; Harris, Jo; Hooper, Oliver – European Physical Education Review, 2020
There are growing concerns over young people's mental health, the academic pressures they face, and the association between school-related stress and health. Given this, alongside the known benefits of physical activity for psychological health, the need for school-based interventions with a physical activity focus seems justified. This paper…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Evaluation, Stress Variables, Anxiety
Ryan, Seamus; Danquah, Adam N.; Berry, Katherine; Hopper, Mary – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2017
The intermediate psychological therapies service is provided for individuals referred with common mental health problems within the primary care psychological therapies service, but whose difficulties are longstanding and/or complex. The prevalence of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in intermediate psychological therapy services has not been…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Problems, Psychological Services, Therapy
Haycock, David; Jones, Jon; Smith, Andy – European Physical Education Review, 2020
There is growing national and international concern about the mental health of children and young people, and in countries such as England there is now a political and policy commitment to developing whole-school approaches to mental health. This paper presents new evidence on how pupils' mental health is being addressed in schools using learning…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Physical Education, Athletics, Foreign Countries
Gallard, Diahann – Psychology of Education Review, 2018
In this commentary of Neil Humphrey's "Are the Kids Alright? Examining the Intersection between Education and Mental Health" (EJ1247696), Diahann Gallard shares her views based on her experiences as an academic, a researcher, an ex-school teacher and a parent of teenage children. She concludes that like Humphrey, she believes there is…
Descriptors: Child Health, Mental Health, Access to Health Care, Well Being
