Halei Benefield, Amie Bettencourt, Melissa Lee, Carol Vidal
{"title":"Patterns in School-Based Mental Health Visits and Psychotropic Medication Prescribing Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Halei Benefield, Amie Bettencourt, Melissa Lee, Carol Vidal","doi":"10.1007/s12310-023-09614-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-023-09614-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51538,"journal":{"name":"School Mental Health","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135113649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maeve Dwan-O’Reilly, Laura Walsh, Ailbhe Booth, Caroline Heary, Eilis Hennessy
{"title":"Measuring School Staff Confidence and Worries to Deliver Mental Health Content: An Examination of the Psychometric Properties of Two Measures in a Sample of Secondary School Staff","authors":"Maeve Dwan-O’Reilly, Laura Walsh, Ailbhe Booth, Caroline Heary, Eilis Hennessy","doi":"10.1007/s12310-023-09616-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-023-09616-8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Secondary school staff are often tasked with delivering mental health content to students, yet there has been little research on staff confidence to do so. Given the responsibility placed on staff to support student mental health, reliable and valid measures are needed to facilitate assessment of teacher confidence in the classroom and evaluation of the impact of interventions designed to enhance teacher confidence and ultimately support the delivery of mental health interventions in schools. This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the Teacher Confidence Scale for Delivering Mental Health Content (TCS-MH) and the What Worries Me Scale (WWMS), both developed by Linden and Stuart (2019) and previously tested on a sample of elementary school teachers. Within this paper we examine the factor structure, reliability, and validity of these measures in a large sample ( N = 644) of secondary school staff. Exploratory factor analysis suggested that each scale had a single factor structure with all original items retained. This was further supported with confirmatory factor analysis. Examination of the reliability of both scales found that they had good internal consistency. Finally, through correlation analyses, both measures demonstrated satisfactory convergent and discriminant validity from mental health knowledge, mental health stigma, general anxiety, and teacher efficacy. Both the TCS-MH and the WWMS show great promise as measures of secondary school staff confidence to deliver mental health content.","PeriodicalId":51538,"journal":{"name":"School Mental Health","volume":"17 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135218779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparison of Self-Report Measures to Screen for Mental Health Concerns in Youth","authors":"Jacob L. DeBoer, Anna C. J. Long","doi":"10.1007/s12310-023-09615-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-023-09615-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51538,"journal":{"name":"School Mental Health","volume":"19 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135217639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Muro, Clàudia Tejada-Gallardo, Júlia Illa, Montserrat Gomà-i-Freixanet, Jorge L. Méndez-Ulrich, Karin Chellew, Antoni Sanz, Ramon Cladellas
{"title":"The Kids aren’t Alright: A Brief Positive Psychological Intervention During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Spanish Sample of Adolescents","authors":"Anna Muro, Clàudia Tejada-Gallardo, Júlia Illa, Montserrat Gomà-i-Freixanet, Jorge L. Méndez-Ulrich, Karin Chellew, Antoni Sanz, Ramon Cladellas","doi":"10.1007/s12310-023-09613-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-023-09613-x","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Previous studies have reported that adolescents were at higher risk for mental health disorders during and after the COVID-19 pandemic due to the characteristics of their developmental period and to the impact of social and mobility restrictions on their daily routines. In response to these reports, we designed, implemented, and evaluated the impact of a brief positive psychological intervention in a high school setting to increase adolescents’ psychological well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. A pre-post experimental study was conducted to compare the levels of anxiety, academic motivation, and performance changes in an experimental and control group. A final sample of 148 students from two Spanish high schools of the Catalan region participated in the study ( M ag e = 12.45; 48% female). Results showed that participants in the experimental group reported a reduction in anxiety and an increase in global motivation levels compared to the control group. Regression analyses also revealed that the intervention was a significant predictor of reduced anxiety, increased motivation, and fewer failed subjects, while high anxiety predicted decreased performance and reduced motivation. These findings suggest that brief positive psychological interventions implemented in high school classrooms could be a cost-effective and systemic preventive measure for increasing adolescents’ psychological well-being and strengthening their general mental health both during and after periods of pandemic restrictions.","PeriodicalId":51538,"journal":{"name":"School Mental Health","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135918828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Blanche Wright, Alane Celeste-Villalvir, DaiJa Moorehead, Charlie Johnson, Katherine Luna Mendoza, Melvin Bowers, Bonnie T. Zima
{"title":"A Community-Partnered Qualitative Study on Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives: The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Perceived Impact on Black and Latinx Youth Mental Health and Community-Driven School Policy Recommendations","authors":"Blanche Wright, Alane Celeste-Villalvir, DaiJa Moorehead, Charlie Johnson, Katherine Luna Mendoza, Melvin Bowers, Bonnie T. Zima","doi":"10.1007/s12310-023-09611-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-023-09611-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51538,"journal":{"name":"School Mental Health","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134976346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cathrin D. Green, Keely Thornton, Joseph W. Fredrick, Kelsey K. Wiggs, Zoe R. Smith, Joshua M. Langberg, Stephen P. Becker
{"title":"Longitudinal Evaluation of School Climate in Predicting Mood and Academic Functioning in Adolescence: The Role of Academic Motivation","authors":"Cathrin D. Green, Keely Thornton, Joseph W. Fredrick, Kelsey K. Wiggs, Zoe R. Smith, Joshua M. Langberg, Stephen P. Becker","doi":"10.1007/s12310-023-09606-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-023-09606-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51538,"journal":{"name":"School Mental Health","volume":"325 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135833438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sheri Bauman, Zhenqiang Zhao, Russell Toomey, Liam Hackett
{"title":"Characteristics of Victimization Dynamics as Predictors of Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in Adolescents: A Latent Class Analysis","authors":"Sheri Bauman, Zhenqiang Zhao, Russell Toomey, Liam Hackett","doi":"10.1007/s12310-023-09609-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-023-09609-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51538,"journal":{"name":"School Mental Health","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136341407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interventions to Reduce Racial Bias and Prejudice in Preschool Children: A Systematic Review of the Literature Since 2010","authors":"Ortal Slobodin, Tala Noufi, Yael Caspi","doi":"10.1007/s12310-023-09608-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-023-09608-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51538,"journal":{"name":"School Mental Health","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134885249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lora Henderson Smith, Meredith P. Franco, Jessika H. Bottiani
{"title":"“We're Teachers Right, We're Not Social Workers?” Teacher Perspectives on Student Mental Health in a Tribal School","authors":"Lora Henderson Smith, Meredith P. Franco, Jessika H. Bottiani","doi":"10.1007/s12310-023-09607-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-023-09607-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51538,"journal":{"name":"School Mental Health","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135770725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}