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Madeline Crichton; Hannah Bigelow; Barbara Fenesi – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Rates of mental health challenges among children and youth are on the rise. Physical activity has been identified as a promising intervention to improve mental health outcomes for youth. This study aimed to investigate how mental health clinicians perceive and utilize physical activity as a mental health intervention for children and adolescents.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Mental Health
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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
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Micah A. Tilley; Jasmyn K. Skinner; Tina Montreuil – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2024
This pilot study investigated the effectiveness of Healthy Minds, Healthy Schools (HMHS), a universal school cognitive-behavioral therapy program aimed at improving anxiety and emotion regulation. Using a quasi-experimental design with open assignment to groups, elementary students were assigned to either the intervention (n = 186) or comparison…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, Prevention, Mental Health Programs
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Martin, Brittany Harker; Colp, S. Mitchell – Canadian Journal of Education, 2022
This article presents art as a tool for promoting mental health in schools by examining the effects of art making in a sample of 104 school-based mental health professionals. It unites findings from unrelated disciplines to derive and test a new conceptual framework proposing that active engagement in a visual-tactile process over time mediates a…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Mental Health, Health Promotion, Mental Health Workers
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Keng-Hie Song; Ju-Hyun Song; Tina Malti – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
This study investigated the relationship between traumatic life stress, trust, and prosocial behavior as a positive mental health outcome in Syrian refugee children in Canada. Trust is a resilience factor shown to promote adjustment after resettlement. The specific goals of the study were to test the influence of refugee children's traumatic life…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Experience, Trauma, Trust (Psychology)
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Tint, Ami; Chung, Hannah; Lai, Meng-Chuan; Balogh, Robert; Lin, Elizabeth; Durbin, Anna; Lunsky, Yona – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
This study used administrative data to compare the socio-demographics, health conditions, and health service use of autistic adults with adults with and without other developmental disabilities, after matching for age and sex. Autistic women and men were more likely to have a wide range of physical and mental health conditions compared to adults…
Descriptors: Physical Health, Mental Health, Health Services, Gender Differences
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Louis Volante; Don A. Klinger; Camila Lara – Canadian Journal of Education, 2024
This study expands on our previous research focusing on provincial educational policies to support students' academic resilience during the pandemic, with the current focus being on the "recovery phase" of the pandemic (January 2022 to December 2023). Our analysis identified 46 provincial documents that addressed one or more of the three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Improvement
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Camille Sabourin; Martin Camiré; Stéphanie Turgeon – SAGE Open, 2024
The stay-at-home measures enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic led to sudden changes in the lives of individuals worldwide. For high school student-athletes, these changes meant transitioning to online schooling, heavily reducing their social activities, and enduring the cancelation of sport activities. Scholars have expressed concerns related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Athletes, COVID-19
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Victoria S. Glena; Aislin R. Mushquash; John K. Gotwals; Kathryn E. Sinden; Erin S. Pearson – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To determine the impact of four classroom-based sessions on mindfulness and symptoms of psychological distress among first-year students. A secondary objective was to explore participants' involvement experiences. Participants: First-year undergraduate students at a Canadian university were recruited. Methods: A mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mental Health, College Freshmen, Intervention
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Poole, Heather; Khan, Ayesha; Smith, Alyssa C.; Stypulkowski, Amanda – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
The mental health of undergraduate students is a concern across many North American institutions. To support students' mental well-being and help them manage stress, many Canadian post-secondary institutions have introduced a mid-semester break during the fall term. However, there has been limited work evaluating whether this fall break is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Public Colleges, Anxiety
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Sellitto, Teresa; Fraser-Thomas, Jessica; Bassett-Gunter, Rebecca L.; Lee, Vivian; Lunsky, Yona; Balogh, Robert; Weiss, Jonathan A. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on the mental health of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Numerous pandemic-related stressors experienced by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities may have impacted their ability to thrive, which has been linked to mental health outcomes. The…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, COVID-19
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Julia Petrovic; Laurianne Bastien; Jessica Mettler; Nancy L. Heath – Journal of College Student Mental Health, 2024
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a significant mental health concern on university campuses. It has been proposed that dispositional mindfulness, which may be fostered through mindfulness practice, may have important benefits for university students with a history of NSSI through its positive impact on coping self-efficacy. However, students'…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Coping, Self Efficacy, College Students
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Yukari Seko; Julien Meyer; Romaine Bonghanya; Leah Honiball – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This study explored how Canada's postsecondary institutions have informed students about campus mental health (MH) services via websites and social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We conducted a Web-based environmental scan of 20 universities and 24 colleges across the province of Ontario, Canada, between October 2020 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Mental Health, COVID-19
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Delaram Baghoori; Mary Roduta Roberts; Shu-Ping Chen – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This study aimed to explore the mental health status, coping strategies, and social support of international students in Canada. Participants: Undergraduate and graduate international students studying at one Canadian university participated in an online survey. Methods: The survey consisting of four assessments--the Mental Health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Mental Health
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Matthew Nielsen; Joseph Amundrud – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2023
As concern for student wellness permeates into educational objectives, educators require high-quality tools to better understand wellness. A content analysis of a representative sample of the Annual Education Results Reports from Alberta public school divisions revealed patterns in the framing of student wellness through the five wellness domains…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Wellness, Public Schools, Annual Reports
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