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Direct linkThompson, Samantha; Atkinson, Cathy – British Journal of Special Education, 2022
Supporting children and young people's mental health and well-being is central to UK Government policy, with statistics suggesting post-16 students and those with learning difficulties are vulnerable. This case study explored how practitioners at a special school for students with severe and profound and multiple learning difficulties promote…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Well Being, Special Schools
Toseeb, Umar; Asbury, Kathryn – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Autistic children and adolescents and their parents are likely to have been disproportionally affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been little focus on how the mental health of these vulnerable families developed during the pandemic and how it compared to those with other special educational needs and disabilities. Questionnaires were…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Adolescents, Mental Health
Taylor, Helen; Ingham, Barry; Mason, David; Finch, Tracy; Wilson, Colin; Scarlett, Clare; Moss, Sebastian; Buckley, Carole; Urbanowicz, Anna; Raymaker, Dora; Seiboth, Charlotte; Lees, Rhianna; Garland, Deborah; Osbourne, Malcolm; Lennox, Nicholas; Cooper, Sally-Ann; Nicolaidis, Christina; Parr, Jeremy R. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Autistic people experience more health conditions and earlier mortality. This study investigated views about a primary care health check for autistic adults to inform its design. Fifty-one people participated in consultation groups and interviews, comprising autistic adults (some with co-occurring intellectual disabilities), adults with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Access to Health Care, Primary Health Care
Hartas, Dimitra – Research Papers in Education, 2021
Concerns about mental health difficulties in young people, mid-adolescent girls in particular, are on the rise. Many explanations ranging from peer pressure and bullying, to social media and gender inequality, have been offered for the rise in mental health problems. This study utilised data from the Millennium Cohort Study (Wave 6) to examine…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, Early Adolescents, Family Relationship
Durodie, Bill – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2016
This article examines the growing relationship between security and education, particularly in the light of the UK government's Prevent Duty that seeks to tackle radicalisation in a variety of milieus, including universities. However, rather than seeing this process as being merely one-way, through a so-called securitisation of education (in the…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Prevention, National Security, Correlation
Pettinger, Clare; Parsons, Julie M.; Cunningham, Miranda; Withers, Lyndsey; D'Aprano, Gia; Letherby, Gayle; Sutton, Carole; Whiteford, Andrew; Ayres, Richard – Health Education Journal, 2017
Objective: High levels of social and economic deprivation are apparent in many UK cities, where there is evidence of certain "marginalised" communities suffering disproportionately from poor nutrition, threatening health. Finding ways to engage with these communities is essential to identify strategies to optimise wellbeing and life…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Well Being, Food, Foreign Countries
Download full textBrown, Eleanor J.; Nicklin, Laura Louise – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2019
This article explores the impact of a global youth work project that aimed to engage young people in social issues through the medium of hip-hop. We discuss the literature on education for social justice and then give an overview of the hip-hop project we analysed. We go on to explore the qualitative findings, asking what practices were most…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Music, Youth Programs, Social Justice
Hindmarsh, Gabrielle; Llewellyn, Gwynnyth; Emerson, Eric – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
Background: Children of parents with intellectual impairment are thought to be at risk for poor social-emotional well-being. This study investigated the relationship between maternal intellectual impairment and poor child social-emotional well-being. Method: Secondary analysis of data from waves 2-4 of the Millennium Cohort Study (UK).…
Descriptors: Children, Parents, Intellectual Disability, Child Health
Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2019
'Extending the welcome', a symposium convened in March 2019, brought together participants from a dozen countries across public, private and academic spheres to discuss the education gap faced by refugees and displaced people and what universities can do to help bridge that gap. Through a discussion of findings and best practice from already…
Descriptors: Refugees, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings)
Emerson, E. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2013
People with intellectual disabilities have poorer health than their non-disabled peers. They are also more likely to be exposed to a wide range of environmental adversities in childhood. Research undertaken in the general population has demonstrated that exposure to environmental adversity in childhood can have an adverse impact on health and…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Retardation, Environmental Influences, Socioeconomic Status
Spratt, Trevor – Child Care in Practice, 2008
There has been considerable interest in recent years in comparing the operation of social work services for children and families internationally, particularly between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Reviewing the respective policy environments and drawing on recent research experience in these three nations, the author…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Foreign Countries, Social Isolation
Taylor, Catherine G. – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2008
This article offers an evidence-based argument for exempting the majority of LGBTTIQ youth from parental consent requirements in research studies. The argument is grounded in international research ethics principles and social science research studies of risks to the well-being of LGBTTIQ youth. A schema derived from consent concepts used in…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Social Sciences, Foreign Countries, Youth
Beckett, Celia; Maughan, Barbara; Rutter, Michael; Castle, Jenny; Colvert, Emma; Groothues, Christine; Kreppner, Jana; Stevens, Suzanne; O'Connor, Thomas G.; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S. – Child Development, 2006
Cognitive outcomes at age 11 of 131 Romanian adoptees from institutions were compared with 50 U.K. adopted children. Key findings were of both continuity and change: (1) marked adverse effects persisted at age 11 for many of the children who were over 6 months on arrival; (2) there was some catch-up between ages 6 and 11 for the bottom 15%; (3)…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adoption, Children, Foreign Countries
Emerson, E.; Hatton, C.; Llewellyn, G.; Blacker, J.; Graham, H. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2006
Background: Many previous studies have reported that mothers of children with intellectual disabilities (IDs) are more likely to show signs of psychological distress and have lower well-being than mothers of "typically developing" children. Our aim was to estimate the extent to which these differences may be accounted for by…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Well Being, Mothers, Mental Retardation
Rushton, Alan; Dance, Cherilyn – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To discover the outcomes for children placed late for adoption (between 5 and 11 years old) from public care and to establish which factors predict poorer outcome. Method: Data were collected prospectively (1993-2003) from a representative sample of domestic U.K. adoptive placements (N = 108) at the start of placement, at 1 year, and 6…
Descriptors: Siblings, Placement, Adoption, Social Services
