Targeted school-based interventions for adolescents with depression and anxiety
Rachel Symons summarises a practitioner review looking at the effectiveness of indicated school‐based interventions for adolescents, which finds a positive impact on both depression and anxiety, but...
View ArticleOvercoming barriers: why adolescents don’t seek mental health support
Emma Ashworth summarises a recent systematic review on the barriers that children and adolescents face in seeking help for their mental health problems. The post Overcoming barriers: why adolescents...
View ArticleCan we teach schools how to improve care for young people who self-harm?...
Douglas Badenoch appraises and summarises a recent systematic review of experimental studies, which looks at whether school staff training can improve responses to pupils who self-harm. Follow...
View ArticleSchool-based mental health interventions: reducing depression, anxiety and...
In their debut blog, Rasanat Fatima Nawaz and Lauren Cross summarise a comprehensive review from the Early Intervention Foundation on school-based mental health interventions. The post School-based...
View ArticleWhat impact do secondary schools have on the mental health of young people?
In his debut blog, Chris Fielding reviews a study which uses baseline data from the MYRIAD study, and concludes that the "direct influence of schools on mental health seems to be small". The post What...
View ArticleSchool connectedness, anxiety and depression: recent evidence and young...
In their debut blog, Monika Raniti and Divyangana Rakesh explore the relationship between school connectedness, anxiety and depression in young people. The post School connectedness, anxiety and...
View ArticleShould 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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