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 support teams in schools.
[read the full story...]Should schools use peer mentoring for mental health? New review highlights how little we know
Lucinda Powell summarises a review which finds little evidence to support the use of peer mentoring in schools to improve mental wellbeing.
[read the full story...]School connectedness, anxiety and depression: recent evidence and young people’s perspectives #ActiveIngredientsMH
In their debut blog, Monika Raniti and Divyangana Rakesh explore the relationship between school connectedness, anxiety and depression in young people.
[read the full story...]A whole-school approach to enhance social, emotional and behavioural development
Julia Badger summarises a review on the effectiveness of interventions adopting a whole-school approach to enhancing social and emotional development. She finds that the evidence supports this approach, but implementing it in schools is not always straightforward.
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