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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
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Sarah Kiefer; Jacqueline Blass; Sarah Fefer; Kai Zhuang Shum; Kristen Mahony-Atallah; Shannon Suldo; John Ferron – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
ABSTRACT Many youth seek and receive mental health treatment in schools, yet research on their perceptions of these interventions remains uncommon. This qualitative study explored how student perspectives on social validity informed the ongoing implementation and evaluation of the Well-Being Promotion Program (WBPP), a Tier 2 positive psychology…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Middle School Students, Well Being, Intervention
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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
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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
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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
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Bruns, Eric J.; Lee, Kristine; Davis, Chayna; Pullmann, Michael D.; Ludwig, Kristy; Sander, Mark; Holm-Hansen, Cheryl; Hoover, Sharon; McCauley, Elizabeth M. – Prevention Science, 2023
Schools offer an advantageous setting for the prevention, early identification, and treatment of mental health problems for youth. However, school mental health (SMH) services are typically not based on evidence for effectiveness, nor are they efficiently delivered, with SMH practitioners (SMHPs) able to only treat a small number of students in…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Length, Learner Engagement, Problem Solving
Eric J. Bruns; Kristine Lee; Chayna Davis; Michael D. Pullmann; Kristy Ludwig; Mark Sander; Cheryl Holm-Hansen; Sharon Hoover; Elizabeth M. McCauley – Grantee Submission, 2023
Schools offer an advantageous setting for prevention, early identification, and treatment of mental health problems for youth. However, school mental health (SMH) services are typically not based on evidence for effectiveness, nor are they efficiently delivered, with SMH practitioners (SMHPs) able to only treat a small number of students in need.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Length, Learner Engagement, Problem Solving
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Victor Villarreal – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2024
School-based mental health screening has been identified as a major component of social, emotional, and behavioral multitiered systems of support models, and a promising practice that can be used to address unmet mental health needs of children and adolescents. However, there are frequently noted concerns about the feasibility of implementing…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Mental Health
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Rebecca A. Schwartz-Mette; Hannah R. Lawrence; Eliot Fearey; Jessica Shankman; Janet Nichols; Joy Walters; Elena Perello; Susan Smith – School Mental Health, 2024
The FRIENDS Resilience programs provide cognitive-behavioral skills across the developmental spectrum and can be applied as a universal or selective prevention program. In the current study, we assessed whether, relative to the schools' existing counseling curriculum ("guidance"), FRIENDS improved social skills, problem behaviors, and…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Evaluation, Mental Health Programs, Program Effectiveness
Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2024
This demonstration brief provides teaching and learning stories from districts and schools implementing PBIS with an integrated systems focus and is organized across the following areas: (a) the context of the school/district, (b) the changes made in the systems, (c) the impact of the changes made in the systems, and (d) next steps to improve the…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Low Income Students, Middle School Students
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Anderson, Melissa; Werner-Seidler, Aliza; King, Catherine; Gayed, Aimée; Harvey, Samuel B.; O'Dea, Bridianne – School Mental Health, 2019
This review aimed to examine the effectiveness of mental health training programs designed to improve the knowledge, attitudes, or helping behaviour of secondary school teachers for adolescent depression, anxiety, and related mental health problems. A systematic search strategy was conducted using electronic databases and hand search procedures.…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Health Programs, Training, Secondary School Teachers
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Pattison, Krista; Costigan, Heather; Keller, Chelsea; Sekhar, Deepa – Health Education Journal, 2022
Objective: This study investigated the efficacy of a two-component professional development approach to improving school wellness in Pennsylvania secondary schools. Design: Circle of Wellness (CoW), a year-long, two-phase programme, involved providing Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) workshops to Pennsylvania school staff and…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Administrators, School Personnel, Wellness
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Carey, Sheridan Leone – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in Australian adolescent males and rates are gradually increasing. Prompt attention to this issue is needed to stem the rising rates and prevent young boys from taking their lives. School based programs are an obvious place for prevention to occur as they have the capacity to impact a majority of…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Secondary School Students, Males, Suicide
Melissa E. DeRosier; Deb Childress; Akila Raoul; Clark McKown; Kelly Kocher; Lin Ma – Online Submission, 2024
The primary purpose of this research study was to evaluate the efficacy of BASE, a self-paced online mental health education preventive intervention with middle school students. Two hundred ninety-five adolescent students were randomly assigned to receive BASE modules (n = 156) in a regular education classroom setting over a 5-week period or to a…
Descriptors: Intervention, School Health Services, Mental Health, Hispanic American Students
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