Should schools use peer mentoring for mental health? New review highlights...
Lucinda Powell summarises a review which finds little evidence to support the use of peer mentoring in schools to improve mental wellbeing. The post Should schools use peer mentoring for mental health?...
View ArticleSchool based humanistic counselling: a little better than pastoral care, but...
In her debut blog, Annie Stevenson reports on an RCT finding that school-based humanistic counselling reduces psychological distress, but is not cost-effective. The post School based humanistic...
View ArticleMindfulness in schools: MYRIAD trial findings offer limited support for...
Lucinda Powell reports on the findings of the huge MYRIAD (My Resilience in Adolescence) project, which looked at the effectiveness of school based mindfulness training across more than 100 UK schools....
View ArticleDo school-based depression and anxiety prevention programmes work?
Ariadna Albajara Saenz blogs a systematic review that suggests school-based depression and anxiety prevention programmes are likely to have a significant public health impact when implemented on a...
View ArticleTackling structural racism in suicide prevention: a conceptual framework
Kam Bhui reviews a conceptual framework developed to understand structural racism and suicide prevention for ethnoracially minoritised youth in the United States. The post Tackling structural racism in...
View ArticleEquipping young adolescents with wellbeing skills: does a universal,...
Emily Hards and Maria Loades summarise a cluster randomised controlled trial exploring the effectiveness of universal process-based CBT for positive mental health in early adolescence. The post...
View ArticleBuilding bridges between schools and mental health services to improve youth...
In her latest blog, Ariadna Albajara Saenz summarises a recent paper reporting on two pilot trials exploring partnerships between schools and mental health services to test the utilisation and...
View ArticleMental health support teams in schools: an evaluation of the UK Trailblazer...
Lucinda Powell reflects on an early evaluation of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Trailblazer programme, which looked at the first 25 ‘Trailblazer’ sites implementing mental health...
View ArticleWhat’s BESST for young people? Efficacy of CBT-informed workshops for stress...
Matthias Schwannauer explores the BESST cluster randomised controlled trial, which is out today in The Lancet Psychiatry. BESST stands for Brief Educational Workshops in Secondary Schools Trial. The...
View ArticleUniversal DBT intervention in schools: help or hindrance?
Sofiia Kornatska reviews a non-randomised trial exploring a dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) based universal intervention on adolescent social and emotional well-being in Australian schools. The...
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