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Ville Björck; Britt Hedman Ahlström; Nóra Kerekes – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: Work readiness and the ability to change how work is conducted are key dimensions of employability. This study focuses on alumni from the social psychiatric care (SPC) programme at University West in Trollhättan, Sweden. As their work readiness and work-changing abilities have not been studied to this point, the purpose was to explore the…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Alumni
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Sandra Mårtensson; Helene Lidström; Elin Ekbladh – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2024
Students in vocational programs have lower qualifications and more difficulties with successful entry into the labor market if they graduate without a diploma. The aim of this study was to describe the student - environment fit for high school students who are struggling with their studies in vocational programs, in terms of their perceived…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High School Students, Student Needs, Mental Health
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Hedegaard, Joel; Hugo, Martin – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2022
The purpose of this article is to describe how education can serve as a changing and liberating process for adults with long-term mental illness. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 participants in Life-knowledge and Creative courses at a Swedish Folk High School. Five themes emerged in the interviews: (i) A meaningful social context…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Mental Disorders, Mental Health
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Rosvall, Per-Åke – Education Inquiry, 2020
Mental health problems are increasingly common risk factors for chronic pain, while stressors in school are associated with persistent and recurrent pain among students, and negatively associated with educational achievements. Clearly, it is important to identify elements that influence frequencies or intensities of mental health problems. To…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Educational Environment
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Evans, Brittany E.; Kim, Yunhwan; Hagquist, Curt – Journal of School Health, 2020
Background: Internalizing problems have increased among Swedish adolescents. We examined whether classroom disorder was associated with internalizing problems and whether it explained the trends in internalizing problems. Furthermore, we examined whether school contextual factors were associated with internalizing problems and whether they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Student Behavior
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Hultin, H.; Eichas, K.; Ferrer-Wreder, L.; Dimitrova, R.; Karlberg, M.; Galanti, M.R. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Previous studies indicate that school climate is important for student health and academic achievement. This study concerns the validity and reliability of the student edition a Swedish instrument for measuring pedagogical and social school climate (PESOC). Data were collected from 5,745 students at 97 Swedish secondary schools. Multilevel…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Test Validity
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Hamre, Bjørn; Axelsson, Thom; Ludvigsen, Kari – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2019
This article explores the role of psychiatry in the sorting of schoolchildren in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from 1920 to 1950. Whereas the role and rise of educational psychology and IQ-testing in the differentiation processes in schooling have been examined through earlier research, the role of psychiatry in the interprofessional collaboration…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Psychiatric Hospitals, Educational Psychology, Intelligence Tests
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Boström, Petra; Johnels, Jakob Åsberg; Thorson, Maria; Broberg, Malin – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
Few studies have explored the subjective mental health of adolescents with intellectual disabilities, while proxy ratings indicate an overrepresentation of mental health problems. The present study reports on the design and an initial empirical evaluation of the Well-being in Special Education Questionnaire (WellSEQ). Questions, response scales,…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Peer Relationship, Family Environment, Educational Environment
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Allodi, Mara Westling – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
The principles of new public management -- market mechanisms, accountability and standards -- have been applied in the education system. These methods are supposed to increase efficiency, but there is also a risk of negative consequences from the services provided if the measures of performance target a reduced range of goals, ignore relevant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Junior High Schools, Educational Administration
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Bastounis, Anastasios; Callaghan, Patrick; Lykomitrou, Foteini; Aubeeluck, Aimee; Michail, Maria – School Mental Health, 2017
Mental health promotion in schools is a key priority for national governments. The aim of this meta-aggregation is to synthesise the findings from universal, depression and/or anxiety, cognitive behavioural therapy and/or interpersonal therapy-based, programmes implemented in schools, which are focused on reducing depression and anxiety in student…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Promotion, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety
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Irisdotter Aldenmyr, Sara; Olson, Maria – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2016
This paper focusses on the relatively new international phenomenon of therapeutic education. Taking on the fact that this phenomenon is part of the schools' assigned in relation to the formation of young people, the aim of this paper is twofold: to highlight what rationales emerge in the formation of young people's emotions in school, and to…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Well Being, Mental Health, Foreign Countries
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Kimber, Birgitta; Skoog, Therése; Sandell, Rolf – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2013
The paper presents the results from a thematic analysis of the process diaries of teachers involved in teacher training in social and emotional learning (SEL) in Sweden. Twenty-nine out of the 122 diaries available were analyzed until saturation was reached. The following themes and sub-themes were extracted: development (professional and…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Education
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Sisask, Merike; Värnik, Peeter; Värnik, Airi; Apter, Alan; Balazs, Judit; Balint, Maria; Bobes, Julio; Brunner, Romuald; Corcoran, Paul; Cosman, Doina; Feldman, Dana; Haring, Christian; Kahn, Jean-Pierre; Poštuvan, Vita; Tubiana, Alexandra; Sarchiapone, Marco; Wasserman, Camilla; Carli, Vladimir; Hoven, Christina W.; Wasserman, Danuta – Health Education Journal, 2014
Objective: In support of a whole-school approach to mental health promotion, this study was conducted to find out whether and how significantly teachers' satisfaction with school and their subjective psychological well-being are related to the belief that they can help pupils with mental health problems. Design: Cross-sectional data were collected…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Well Being
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Gren-Landell, Malin; Ekerfelt Allvin, Cornelia; Bradley, Maria; Andersson, Maria; Andersson, Gerhard – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2015
In the present online survey, 158 teachers in regular and special education teaching in grades six to nine were asked to rate the importance of probable reasons for problematic school absenteeism. On average, the teachers estimated that among their students, 19 students had presented with problematic school absenteeism over the last five years.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Attendance Patterns, Online Surveys
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Modin, Bitte; Ostberg, Viveca; Toivanen, Susanna; Sundell, Knut – Journal of Adolescence, 2011
This study explores the psychosocial working conditions of 7930 Swedish 9th grade students, distributed over 475 classes and 130 schools, in relation to their subjective health using multilevel modeling. At the individual level, students with "strained" working conditions in school (i.e. those experiencing a high level of demands in…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Grade 9, Student Attitudes
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