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Direct linkM. Blake Berryhill; Abby G. Horton; Stephanie L. Masters; Daniel R. Mack; Allison N. Cross; Jeff G. Parker; Joan M. Barth; Kristina L. McDonald – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with family adjustment, heightened adolescent mental health symptomology, and increased caregiver stress. The current study used a diverse sample of caregivers and early adolescents to examine the association between pandemic-related experiences, caregiver perceived stress, and adolescent mental health. Two…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Early Adolescents, Child Caregivers
Chunyan Yang – School Psychology, 2024
Guided by the social-ecological diathesis-stress model, we examined the interactive influences of prepandemic bullying victimization and COVID-19 peer discrimination on Chinese American adolescents' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants included 193 Chinese American adolescents from middle and high schools in the United States.…
Descriptors: Bullying, COVID-19, Pandemics, Mental Health
Radhika S. Raghunathan; Sara B. Johnson; Kristin M. Voegtline; David W. Sosnowski; Molly Kuehn; Nicholas S. Ialongo; Rashelle J. Musci – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Childhood adversity can have detrimental impacts on life course mental and physical health. Timing, nature, severity, and chronicity of adversity are thought to explain much of the variability in health and developmental outcomes among exposed individuals. The current study seeks to characterize heterogeneity in adverse experiences over time at…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Trauma, Early Experience
Robyn Walsh; Brett Zyromski; Jennifer Betters-Bubon; Sarah Shrewsbury-Braxton – Professional School Counseling, 2024
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events occurring in the household or community that hold painful or distressing outcomes for children immediately and in their future (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019). School counselors work with children and young adolescents suffering from negative mental health…
Descriptors: Trauma, Early Experience, School Counselors, Experience
Danielle Edmunds – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The number of students struggling with chronic absenteeism, while on the rise prior to COVID-19, appears to have increased dramatically since the onset of the pandemic. This dissertation explores the challenges faced in a suburban middle school in Western New York throughout and following the COVID-19 shutdown. Data from the district's student…
Descriptors: Attendance, COVID-19, Pandemics, Middle School Students
DuPont-Reyes, Melissa J.; Villatoro, Alice P.; Phelan, Jo C.; Painter, Kris; Barkin, Kay; Link, Bruce G. – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Addressing school violence is an important public health goal. To assess the role of school mental health curricula in violence prevention, we evaluated effects of an anti-stigma curriculum on violence victimization/perpetration. Methods: An ethnically/socioeconomically diverse sample of 751 sixth-graders (mean age 11.5 years) across…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Violence, Prevention, Grade 6
Lane, Julie; Therriault, Danyka; Dupuis, Audrey; Gosselin, Patrick; Smith, Jonathan; Ziam, Saliha; Roy, Mathieu; Roberge, Pasquale; Drapeau, Marti; Morin, Pascale; Berrigan, Felix; Thibault, Isabelle; Dufour, Magali – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Several studies conducted since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic have shown its harmful effects on young people's mental health. In Québec and Canada, few studies have focussed on adolescents, and even fewer of these studies have examined this subject using a methodology that involved comparisons of data obtained before and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Adolescents
Spires, Leslie; Davis-Cheshire, Rhonda – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2022
An AB single-case experimental design was used to assess the effectiveness of the mental health strategies of mindfulness, specifically guided imagery and yoga, on attention to task in five boys identified with emotional disturbance (ED). Repeated measures were taken during both the baseline and intervention phases. A data collection log was used…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Emotional Disturbances, Attention, Metacognition
Tara Ferland – ProQuest LLC, 2022
During the COVID-19 global pandemic students have been exposed to a multitude of stressors and disruptions to their every-day life. Mindfulness has been described in research as one tool to address anxiety and increase attention in young adolescent students (Goldin et al., 2008). This study's purpose was to understand the ways my seventh-grade…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Middle School Students, Metacognition
Miranda R. Zahn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Background/Objectives: In a sociopolitical landscape characterized by growing student behavioral needs and stagnating or shrinking resources, school systems must become more efficient and promote shared ownership to support students. Teachers are critical stakeholders as we expand school mental health systems, yet they receive little training in…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Middle School Teachers, Self Efficacy, Self Concept
Fossum, Sturla; Skokauskas, Norbert; Handegård, Bjørn Helge; Hansen, Ketil Lenert; Kyrrestad, Henriette – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
Feeling safe in school is important for students' learning, well-being, and quality of life. Variables possibly associated with feeling unsafe in school, such as mental health problems, traditional bullying, cyberbullying, and various health problems, were explored. Altogether, 2,028 adolescents (M[subscript age] = 14 years, 50% boys) from 72…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Mental Health, Middle School Students
Green, Jennifer Greif; Schneider, Shari Kessel; Oblath, Rachel; Miller, Melanie; Koslouski, Jessica – Contemporary School Psychology, 2023
We describe challenges to measuring the type and quantity of mental health programs, practices, and resources that schools provide to students, as well as variation in these resources. We conducted interviews and surveys with school and district staff representing 55 middle and high schools in MetroWest Massachusetts with the goal of collecting…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Services, Barriers, School Health Services
Download full textAutumn Barnes, Contributor; Adina Cooper, Contributor; Marci Hertz, Contributor; Kesha Hudson, Contributor; Sarah Lee, Contributor; Sandra Leonard, Contributor; Bailee Peralto, Contributor; Mary Schauer, Contributor; Katy Suellentrop, Contributor; Jorge Verlenden, Contributor; Natalie Wilkins, Contributor; Camara Wooten, Contributor; Anna Yaros, Contributor – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023
This action guide was designed for school administrators in kindergarten through 12th grade schools (K-12), including principals and leaders of school-based student support teams, to identify evidence-based strategies, approaches, and practices that can positively influence students' mental health. This action guide describes six in-school…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Schools, Early Childhood Education, Middle Schools
Jason S. Frydman; Brooke B. Eisenbach – American Journal of Health Education, 2025
Background: The prevalence of mental health challenges among adolescents warrants innovative school-based approaches that support students' mental health literacy (MHL). Purpose: In this qualitative case study, we interrogated the experiences of three eighth-grade English Language Arts (ELA) teachers and two of their school's social support staff…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Middle School Teachers, School Personnel, Attitudes
Addison Duane; Kamryn S. Morris; Amia Nash; Tiffany M. Jones; Valerie B. Shapiro – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
School climate surveys are commonly used to solicit youth perspectives about their experiences in schools. However, to move climate surveys from solicitation towards a more youth-centered, partnered practice for school improvement, guidance is needed from the youth themselves about how and in what ways they hope adults respond to their survey…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Middle School Students, High School Students
