School-based interventions
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The Role of Early Childhood Education in Supporting the Mental Health of Children
Professor Kathy Sylva OBE delivered this Keynote lecture ‘The Role of Early Childhood Education in Supporting the Mental Health of Children’ on Thursday 9 November at the ACAMH Awards. Professor Sylva was the recipient of ACAMH’s Michael Rutter Medal for Lifetime Contribution to Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
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Friendships and Mental Health: Insights from the OxWell Student Survey
The ‘Insights from the OxWell Student Survey‘ series is a new mini-in conversation series that will explore the OxWell study and the impact of its findings for parents, teachers, policymakers and mental health professionals.
In this episode, Tanya Manchanda comments on the friendship findings from the OxWell survey, including an insight into the impact of friendships on mental health outcomes and friendship interventions for young people.
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Insights from the OxWell Student Survey
Hosted by Clara Faria, ‘Insights from the OxWell Student Survey’ series is a new mini-in conversation series that will explore the OxWell study and the impact of its findings for parents, teachers, policymakers and mental health professionals.
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Redistributing power in schools and how this can impact young people’s agency and identity
Recent Guardian articles have been reporting how this year’s GCSE exam results have been impacted by the crisis in young people’s mental health. There is increasing concern among school leaders about school absence and abnormal levels of anxiety. As I embark on the third blog related to my research, I explore how the research processes I developed, positively impacted the young people involved and acts as a counter to much of what young people see as being wrong with schools.
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When do the effects of single-session interventions persist? Testing the mindset + supportive context hypothesis in a longitudinal randomized trial
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘Single-session interventions have the potential to address young people’s mental health needs at scale, but their effects are heterogeneous. We tested whether the mindset + supportive context hypothesis could help explain when intervention effects persist or fade over time’. Cameron A. Hecht (pic) et al.
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Short Research Article: RESEED – the perceived impact of an enhanced usual care model of a novel, teacher-led, task-shifting initiative for child mental health
Paper from the CAMH journal – ‘We explore the perceived impact of RESEED (Responding to Students’ Emotions through Education), an abbreviated version of Tealeaf (Teachers Leading the Frontlines). After classroom implementation of tools from a 3-day training on child mental health and cognitive behavioral techniques in Darjeeling, India, 29 teachers participated in focus group discussions (FGDs).’ Setareh Ekhteraei (pic) et al.
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Editorial Perspective: Missing the context: The challenge of social inequalities to school-based mental health interventions
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘We describe how social inequalities present a challenge to designing school-based interventions for prevention and promotion for mental health and wellbeing, and suggest priorities to aid and evaluate their effectiveness’. Karen L. Mansfield (pic) et al.
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Short Research Article: Promoting digital citizenship through a school-based intervention in early adolescence in Perú (a pilot quasi-experimental study)
Paper from the CAMH journal 2023 Special Issue – “We piloted a translation and cultural adaptation of a DC curriculum originally designed for the U.S. with students in Perú”. Lucía Magis-Weinberg (pic) et al.
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Review: School-based mental health literacy interventions to promote help-seeking – a systematic review
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal – “The aim of this review is to identify and synthesise evidence on the effectiveness of school-based mental health literacy interventions in improving help-seeking outcomes”. Karen Kei Yan Ma et al.
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Long-term impact of a mental health literacy resource applied by regular classroom teachers in a Canadian school cohort
Paper from the CAMH journal – “Application of evidence-based mental health literacy (MHL) curriculum resources by classroom teachers has been demonstrated to significantly improve knowledge and decrease stigma in the short term.” Yifeng Wei et al.
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