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Direct linkSamantha Reaves; Brittany Parham; Kristen Figas; Brooke Chehoski; Karah Palmer; Mark D. Weist – American Journal of Health Education, 2025
Background: School mental health literacy programs, delivered at the universal level, are key to promoting positive behavioral health for all youth. Successfully implementing these programs requires adaptation to ensure the programs are aligned with contextual demands of the schools in which they are implemented. Yet, little is known about how to…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Program Implementation, Middle Schools, Student Welfare
Download full textJessica 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
Julia Liu; B. Marshall; K. Cisneros; E. Jarpe-Ratner – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic elevated mental health needs among students. As such, in 2022 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) introduced the Comprehensive Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Policy to deliver mental health awareness and services to all pK-12th grade students. While transitioning back to in-person learning, an evaluation was…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Student Needs, COVID-19, Pandemics
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
Annie Slease; Dareen Khatib; Teri Lawler; Sabra Collins; Nicole Kennedy; Donna Volpitta; Jason Schofield – American Journal of Health Education, 2025
Background: Youth mental health needs have worsened following COVID-19. Rising demand for school mental health services is straining capacity. Several states have added policies requiring mental health education, yet these vary widely and barriers to operationalization exist. Purpose: This paper explores the onerous landscape of mental health…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Multiple Literacies, Health Education, Middle School Students
Universal, School-Based Mental Health Literacy Programs for Middle School Students: A Scoping Review
Claire P. Zachik; Sarah C. Collica; Jacob White; Candice Espinoza; Karen L. Swartz; Mariel L. Cataldi – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: Universal, classroom-based mental health literacy (MHL) curricula are associated with improved mental health knowledge, attitudes, and help-seeking behaviors. Young adolescents are an ideal target given their need for and receptivity toward MHL education. Methods: We conducted a scoping review to identify universal, school-based MHL…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Health Programs, Multiple Literacies, Middle School Students
Lora Henderson Smith; Natalie Hendrickson; Emily Warren; Amy Tran; Elena Savina – School Mental Health, 2025
Supporting students returning to school after a mental health crisis often involves more training than many school staff members receive. With the increase in youth mental health diagnoses, there has also been an increase in the number of youth requiring psychiatric emergency department visits and hospitalizations. As such, this study employed a…
Descriptors: Stopouts, Reentry Students, Hospitalized Children, Psychiatric Hospitals
Gisselle Soto Rivas; Margaret Canady; Gina Klemm; Jessica L. Barrington-Trimis; Alyssa F. Harlow – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: Mental health care is critical to improving mental health but factors associated with student utilization are poorly understood. Methods: Data were from high school students (N = 2933; mean age = 15.7 ± 0.6) enrolled in a California cohort. We examined associations of sociodemographic factors, substance use, and mental health symptoms…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Health Programs, Adolescents, High School Students
Elizabeth Jane Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Most recent data confirms that the transition and learning "gap between youth and young adults (ages 14-24) with and without disabilities remains significant despite decades of federal and state legislation intended to improve education and employment opportunities" (Cheng & Shaewitz, 2020, p. 28). Researchers have highlighted that…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Emotional Disturbances, Student Experience, Phenomenology
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
Yifeng Wei; Robert Mcweeny; Cheryl Shinkaruk; Andrew Baxter; Andrew Greenshaw; Stan Kutcher – American Journal of Health Education, 2025
Background: Mental disorders most likely manifest during adolescence, providing opportunities for schools and professionals to implement standardized mental health literacy (MHL) interventions to support improvement of mental health outcomes. Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of an MHL intervention (the Guide) on knowledge, stigma,…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Health Behavior, Resources, Grade 8
WestEd, 2024
Project Cal-Well is a cross-agency mental health initiative led by the California Department of Education focused on building capacity for sustainable school-based mental health systems in local educational agencies (LEAs) throughout California. As part of a series highlighting the work of Project Cal-Well partners in Cohort 2 (2019-2024), this…
Descriptors: School Districts, High Schools, Mental Health, Mental Health Programs
Jacqueline R. Anderson; Karabi Nandy; Nancy J. Potter; Jennifer L. Hughes; Farra Kahalnik; Ronny Pipes; Jana Hancock; Tracy L. Greer; Alexandra Kulikova; Joshua S. Elmore; Taryn L. Mayes; Madhukar H. Trivedi – School Psychology, 2024
Rates of depression in youth are continuing to increase at a steady rate, yet these youth often do not receive mental health services (Bertha & Balázs, 2013; Thomas et al., 2011). Schools are an ideal setting to connect youth to mental health services; however, many barriers exist with respect to schools having adequate resources and access to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Depression (Psychology), School Psychologists
Malena A. Nygaard – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students present with mental health needs and posttraumatic stress symptoms, yet they largely do not receive necessary services. Since schools are an ideal setting for students to receive mental health services, Mental Health Action Plans (MHAPs) were developed to define and detail the ways in which student mental health needs can be addressed at…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Health Programs, Student Needs, Social Development
Ricardo Eiraldi; Gwendolyn M. Lawson; Ami Patel; Barry L. McCurdy; Courtney Benjamin Wolk; Muniya S. Khanna; Abbas F. Jawad – Contemporary School Psychology, 2024
Schools face an unprecedent demand for mental health services. Student mental health problems can be addressed via a continuum of mental health evidence-based practices (EBPs) integrated within school-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). However, integrating mental health interventions with PBIS can be challenging. The…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Intervention, School Health Services, Mental Health Programs
