Review of mental health promotion interventions in schools
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PURPOSE: The prevalence of mental disorders amongst children and adolescents is an increasing global problem. Schools have been positioned at the forefront of promoting positive mental health and well-being through implementing evidence-based interventions. The aim of this paper is to review current evidence-based research of mental health promotion interventions in schools and examine the reported effectiveness to identify those interventions that can support current policy and ensure that limited resources are appropriately used. METHODS: The authors reviewed the current state of knowledge on school mental health promotion interventions globally. Two major databases, SCOPUS and ERIC were utilised to capture the social science, health, arts and humanities, and education literature. RESULTS: Initial searches identified 25 articles reporting on mental health promotion interventions in schools. When mapped against the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 10 studies were included and explored. Three of these were qualitative and seven were quantitative. CONCLUSIONS: A range of interventions have been tested for mental health promotion in schools in the last decade with variable degrees of success. Our review demonstrates that there is still a need for a stronger and broader evidence base in the field of mental health promotion, which should focus on both universal work and targeted approaches to fully address mental health in our young populations.
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Mental health promotion for young people has been increasingly embedded within education systems, with an emphasis on sleep hygiene, physical activity, little alcohol and drug use, social connection, and cognitive-behavioural skills.
“Mental health promotion for young people has been increasingly embedded within education systems, 330 with an emphasis on sleep hygiene, physical activity, little alcohol and drug use, social connection, and cognitive-behavioural skills.”
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The Introduction (‘Mental health promotion in schools’) describes growing efforts to integrate mental health promotion into education, and ‘Whole-school approaches’ describes social and emotional programmes. The Results include yoga in physical education and work on peer relationships, but the passages do not establish an emphasis on sleep hygiene, limiting alcohol or drug use, or cognitive-behavioural skills. (LLM, conf=0.87)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredEducational settings have a central role in promoting mental health, recognising warning signs of mental ill health, and delivering prevention and intervention programmes.
“Educational settings have a central role in promoting mental health, 329,330 recognising the warning signs of mental ill health, 331 and delivering prevention and intervention programmes.”
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“Mental health programs implemented in schools have compelling results that are mainly aimed at promoting Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL), resilience, the prevention of social, emotional and behavioral difficulties and the mitigation of risky behaviors [8,12,13].”
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Single-Item Happiness Measure Features Adequate Validity Among Adolescents
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“In addition to the family, because adolescents spend a significant amount of time at school, the school environment can impact their well-being (O’Reilly et al., 2018).”
BackgroundHelp-seeking processes related to targeted school-based mental health services: systematic review
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“However, there is still a need for a stronger, broader evidence base in the field of mental health promotion and prevention in school settings (O’Connor et al., 2018; O’Reilly et al., 2018).”
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“Various factors have been demonstrated to affect adolescents’ help-seeking behaviors for mental health problems, which may be generally classified into three levels: individual-level (such as age, gender, and grade), family-level (such as parental education, family income, and living environment), and school level (su…”
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“Mental health promotion in schools needs to be achieved through the provision of a continuum of intervention components focusing on social and emotional learning, competence for all students, and actively involve young people, schools and communities [44].”
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“Internationally, student wellbeing has become a progressively more important focus of education (O’Reilly et al., 2018); a commitment which is reflected within the Irish school context in the “Wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice” (DES, 2019).”
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“In terms of health promotion, healthy habits, such as tooth brushing (World Health Organization, 2023) and good sleep habits (Bathory & Tomopoulos, 2017; Matricciani et al., 2019), and the promotion of mental health (Fenwick-Smith et al., 2018; O ’ Reilly et al., 2018), are essential for children.”
School counseling prevention programming to address social determinants of mental health
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“…of the counseling profession (Myers, 1992), school counselors should address SDOMH through holistic and collaborative approaches that promote equity and support the prevention of mental health problems in schools (Johnson & Brookover, 2021; Lopez-Perry & Whitson, 2022; O’Reilly et al., 2018).”
Psychological Strategies and Protocols for Promoting School Well-Being: A Systematic Review
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“As suggested by O’Reilly and colleagues, schools and EPs (both teaching and support staff) should be part of a multi-agency approach towards the promotion of adolescent mental health and well-being and play a key role in identifying signs and symptoms of youth mental health issues and referring them to the appropriate…”
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“…greater choice over how this is done using personally and socially relevant tools (such as emojis), would appear important for enhancing pupils’ knowledge and awareness of mental health, and developing SEL (Clarke et al., 2015; MacSweeney et al., 2019; O’Connor et al., 2018; O’Reilly et al., 2018).”
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“…online bullying, worries about climate change, and loneliness, that do not meet the threshold for a clinical diagnosis of a named condition, but still have a significant impact on their daily life and wellbeing (Goodfellow et al., 2022; O’Reilly et al., 2018a, b; Ma et al., 2022; Suh & Lee, 2023).”
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“School-based approaches to youth mental health promotion are supported internationally through public policies encouraging their implementation (O’Reilly et al., 2018), with a growing emphasis on wholeschool preventative approaches (Eisenstein et al., 2019).”
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“While there is a growing body of literature around the benefits of delivering wellbeing programmes for tertiary students there have been varying degrees of success (Ashwood et al. 2015; Ferris et al. 2019; O’Reilly et al. 2018; Winzer et al. 2018; Young et al. 2020).”
Competences for promoting mental health in primary school
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“…particular are viewed as providing ideal settings for enhancing and protecting children’s physical and mental well-being (Notara and Sakellari, 2013; O’Reilly et al., 2018; Sakellari et al., 2021), since in European countries schools reach nearly all children and their parents/caregivers and…”
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“Capturing and recognizing existing practices is also associated with greater acceptability for new approaches among stakeholders [44] and is a means to acknowledge existing good work.”
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“This is most likely because summer program interventions are much shorter than school-based interventions, which can continue for a year or more [85].”
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“This is despite the availability of multiple evidence-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of common mental health issues in schools (O’Reilly et al., 2018).”
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“To reach the widest number of young people, universal prevention programmes set in schools are increasingly being explored as avenues for intervention delivery (O’Reilly et al., 2018; Weare, 2013).”
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“Over recent years, there has been an emphasis on the role of schools in providing evidence-based early intervention support [13,14] with”
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“Schools have been positioned at the forefront of promoting positive mental health and well-being by implementing evidence-based interventions (O'Reilly et al. 2018).”
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“14 School-based programs have long shown positive impacts on various aspects of adolescent well-being, including mental health, social-emotional skills, and academic outcomes.”
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“These findings are particularly relevant given the absence of strong evidence for mental health promotion (Barbui et al., 2020; Barry et al., 2013; O’Reilly et al., 2018; Purgato et al., 2018; Tol, 2015; Uppendahl et al., 2020) and high demand of evidence-based interventions in the field of MHPSS…”
Meilsmeidth, G., Trigueiro, M. J., Simões-Silva, V., de Almeida, R. S., Portugal, P., Gomes, P. V., de Sousa, S., Campos, F., Monteiro, P., Soutelo, A., et al. (2024) · BMC Psychology · doi:10.1186/s40359-024-01591-2 · Cited by 9 · see citing works
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“Although many universal interventions for improving student mental health and social-emotional learning have been shown effective in research [2–4], in practice, evidence-based programming that broadly supports students’ behavioral health and social-emotional needs is often not provided in schools…”
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“An integrated school-based mental health approach has potential to reach a large portion of children and adolescent to promote mental health and well-being [30].”
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“It is against this backdrop of concern regarding the mental health of CYP and their experience of mental illness that increasing emphasis has been placed globally upon prevention and early intervention in educational policy, and especially the role schools (and individual subjects such as physical education (PE)) and…”
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“There is consequently an increasing focus on mental health within education, with previous research showing that schools and universities play a crucial role in promoting positive mental health and wellbeing (O’Reilly et al., 2018; Reavley et al., 2012).”
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“Accordingly, to increase children’s psychological well-being, mental health promotion strategies have been encouraged worldwide [12,13].”
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“Recent research reflects the growing body of evidence regarding the efficacy of creative arts approaches to supporting young people with poor mental health (Fortuna et al, 2020; García-Carrión et al, 2019; Jensen & Bonde, 2018; O”Reilly et al., 2018).”
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- Authors
- O’Reilly, M., Svirydzenka, N., Adams, S., & Dogra, N.
- Affiliations
- University of Leicester (GB)
- De Montfort University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- O’Reilly, Michelle
- Venue
- Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Published
- 2018-05-11
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 647-662
- ISSN
- 0933-7954 (ISSN-L)
- 1433-9285
- PMC
- PMC6003977
- OpenAlex
- W2801053462
- Cited by
- 408
- References
- 52
- Citations by year
- 2026: 52 · 2025: 54 · 2024: 78 · 2023: 63 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 35 · 2020: 54 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 6.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Open Research Online - ORO (The Open University) (acceptedVersion)
- DMU Open Research Archive (De Montfort University) (submittedVersion)
- Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › School Health and Nursing Education
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Keywords
- school-based mental health promotion, child and adolescent mental health, evidence-based interventions, intervention effectiveness, universal prevention, targeted interventions, school mental health policy, well-being
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Child, Female, Health Promotion, Humans, Male, Mental Health, School Health Services, Schools
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