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Wellner, Laurie, Ed.; Pierce-Friedman, Kathleen, Ed. – IGI Global, 2021
Teachers in their first few years of their teaching career require high quality, structured support to begin the journey towards becoming experts. Establishing research-based best practices and working habits set up early career teachers for a fulfilling and successful career. The requirements of teachers are constantly changing, and teachers need…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Evidence Based Practice, Faculty Development, Best Practices
Birman, Dina; Chan, Wing Yi – Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, 2008
This paper provides an overview of screening, identification, and assessment tools and processes that can be used by practitioners and researchers who care for immigrant and refugee youth. The authors focus particularly on those tools useful in school-based settings. First, the authors review mental health needs of immigrant and refugee youth and…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Screening Tests, Identification, Mental Health Programs
Pattison, Sue; Harris, Belinda – Australian Educational Researcher, 2006
This paper is set against the backdrop of an increasing number of strategies and policies developed by the Department for Education and Skills in the U.K. regarding the promotion of positive mental health in schools and the recognition of the value of improving mental health in relation to children's learning, achievement, attendance and…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Therapy, Literature, Young Adults
Chi, Peter S. K. – 1985
The multidimensional concept of health status (complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity) was applied to migrant farmworkers, in an attempt to propose appropriate measures of the three dimensions of health and general health perceptions (GHP) of past, present and future health status. Data…
Descriptors: Agricultural Personnel, Concept Formation, Disabilities, Environment
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Chi, Peter S. K. – Rural Sociology, 1986
Examines 218 black migrant farm workers to determine applicability of Index of General Well-Being, compare level of mental health with that of the general population, and assess and identify variations in subjective well-being. Finds lifestyle, social support, housing conditions, age, sex, and education influence subjective well-being. Discusses…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Environment, Health Needs
Geierstanger, Sara P.; Amaral, Gorette – National Assembly on School-Based Health Care, 2005
The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC) convened a meeting of 23 stakeholders representing a national cross-section of experts in the fields of health and education on April 30, 2004. Among the participants were school health practitioners, educators, researchers, and funders. The meeting's purpose was to clarify and document…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, Stakeholders, School Health Services