DESCRIPTION:
The realisation that most mental disorders have their onset before the age of twenty-five has focused psychiatric research towards adolescent mental health. This book provides vivid examples of school mental health innovations from eighteen countries, addressing mental health promotion and interventions. These initiatives and innovations enable readers from different regions and disciplines to apply strategies to help students achieve and maintain mental health, enhance their learning outcomes and access services, worldwide.
Through case studies of existing programs, such as the integrated system of care approach in the USA, the school-based pathway to care framework in Canada, the therapeutic school consultation approach in Turkey and the REACH model in Singapore, it highlights challenges and solutions to building initiatives, even when resources are scarce. This will be essential reading for educators, health providers, policy makers, researchers and other stakeholders engaged in helping students achieve mental health and enhance their learning outcomes.
- Provides existing evidence-based school mental health models for practitioners to follow and adapt
- Describes diverse school mental health models, frameworks, and programs focusing on children and adolescents from both developing and developed countries
- Provides rich international data to guide future school mental health activities globally
CONTENTS:
1. The global advancement of school mental health for adolescents
2. Developing and sustaining mental health and wellbeing in Australian schools
3. The ""Cool Mind"" program (""Programa Cuca Legal""): mental health literacy for middle and high school teachers of the public system in Brazil
4. A collaborative and sustainable approach to address mental health promotion and early identification in schools in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia and beyond
5. The future of teaching mental health literacy in schools
6. School centred mental health: creating school connectedness that fosters the mental wellness of its community""s children, youth and families
7. Components of mental health care in schools in China: an overview
8. Mental health education for children and adolescents in China
9. School mental health programs in India: current status and future directions
10. School mental health: a perspective from Iraq
11. Supporting a whole school approach to mental health promotion and wellbeing in post-primary schools in Ireland
12. School mental health in Israel: background, services and challenges
13. Development of a mental health literacy program for secondary school students in Japan
14. A peer mental health educator model for African schools: untapped potential
15. The current state of school mental health approaches and initiatives in Mexico and Chile
16. Flourishing schools in Aotearoa, New Zealand: the wellbeing in schools model
17. Universal schooling and mental health: towards school mental health in Northern Ghana
18. A Singapore model - REACH
19. Improving mental health via schools: a perspective from Istanbul
20. School and community mental health promotion strategies for youth in Ukraine
21. Innovative contemplative/mindfulness based approaches to mental health in schools Katherine Weare
22. The life course model for providing empirically supported school-based services for adolescents
23. Interconnecting school mental health and school-wide positive behavior support
24. Global school mental health: considerations and future directions
Index.
