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Wright, Michelle F.; Schiamberg, Lawrence B.; Wachs, Sebastian; Huang, Zheng; Kamble, Shanmukh V.; Soudi, Shruti; Bayraktar, Fatih; Li, Zheng; Lei, Li; Shu, Chang – School Mental Health, 2021
Using an ecological perspective, this one-year longitudinal study examined the moderating effect of sex in the associations among peer-related contexts (i.e., peer attachment, social preference goals) and cyberbullying involvement among adolescents from China, Cyprus, India, and the United States, along with investigating cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Cultural Differences, Peer Relationship, Bullying
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Khanna, Pulkit; Singh, Kamlesh; Proctor, Carmel – School Mental Health, 2021
The present study aimed to evaluate the impact of "Strengths Gym" (Proctor & Fox Eades, in Strengths gym: Year 8, Positive Psychology Research Centre, Pennsylvania, 2009; Proctor et al., in J Posit Psychol, 6:377-388, 2011)--an intervention based on the Values in Action (VIA; Peterson & Seligman in Character strengths and…
Descriptors: Values Education, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Well Being
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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
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Rosário Serrão; Pedro Dias; Ana Andrés; Mhairi Bowe; Tyler Renshaw – School Mental Health, 2024
School-based universal well-being screening is proposed within the Multi-tiered Systems of Support approach to collect data on school and individual well-being. Universal screening allows for data-based informed decision, allocating each pupil or set of pupils in universal, selective and/or indicated structured interventions and supports. However,…
Descriptors: Well Being, Screening Tests, Test Validity, Questionnaires
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Li, ChenXi; Ma, Chao; Li, Pei; Liang, ZhiJiang – School Mental Health, 2022
Poverty in the long run, as the long-term source of pressures, has strengthened the vulnerability of juveniles and has increased the incidence of psychological or behavioral problems during their growth. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen preventive intervention for adolescents to avoid poverty's "scar effect" upon their physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Adolescents, At Risk Students
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Jacob L. DeBoer; Anna C. J. Long – School Mental Health, 2024
Universal screening continues to be a missed opportunity for addressing mental health in schools. The current study compared three separate self-report screening tools: the Behavior Assessment System for Children-Third Edition: Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BASC-3 BESS), Youth Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Screener (YIEPS),…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Measurement Techniques, Rating Scales, Child Behavior
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Zhang, Danhui; Jin, Bihui; Cui, Yiran – School Mental Health, 2022
Grounded in Self-Determination Theory, this study examined trends in depression and the longitudinal impacts of teacher autonomy support and teacher-student relationships on students' depressive symptoms. A total of 1613 Chinese primary school students (48.17% females) and 1397 Chinese middle school students (47.67% females) completed self-report…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Teacher Student Relationship, Depression (Psychology), Self Determination
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Shochet, Ian M.; Saggers, Beth R.; Carrington, Suzanne B.; Orr, Jayne A.; Wurfl, Astrid M.; Kelly, Rachel L.; Duncan, Bonnie M. – School Mental Health, 2022
Tackling mental health difficulties in adolescents on the autism spectrum requires a comprehensive prevention approach. A 3-year multisite proof-of-concept longitudinal study implemented an evidence-based multilevel resilience intervention in schools to promote protective factors at the adolescent, parent, and school level. The intervention,…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adolescents, Inclusion, Secondary School Students
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Kim, Samuel; Spadafora, Natalie; Craig, Wendy; Volk, Anthony A.; Zhang, Li – School Mental Health, 2021
Bullying is a peer relational problem that can inflict psychological harm onto both those who are victimized and those who witness it occur. Fostering a positive classroom environment is an important protective factor in preventing bullying. Authoritative classroom climates may protect victimized and bystander youth from negative mental health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Discipline, Classroom Environment