School Mental Health

Global Challenges and Opportunities

Stan Kutcher, Yifeng Wei, Mark D. Weist

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781107053908
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316309216
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Contributors
• Chapter 1 The global advancement of school mental health for adolescents
• Chapter 2 Developing and sustaining mentalhealth and wellbeing in Australian schools
• Chapter 3 The “Cool Mind” Program (“Programa Cuca Legal”): Mental health literacy for middle- and high„-school„ teachers of the public system in Brazil
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 5 The future of teaching mental health literacy in schools
• Chapter 6 School„-centered„ mental health: Creating school connectedness that fosters the mental wellness of its community’s children, youth, and families
• Chapter 7 Components of mental healthcare in schools in China: An overview
• Chapter 8 Mental health education for children and adolescents in China
• Chapter 9 School mental health programs in India: Current status and future directions
• Chapter 10 School mental health: A perspective from Iraq
• Chapter 11 Supporting a whole„-school„ approach to mental health promotion and wellbeing in post-„primary„ schools in Ireland
• Chapter 12 School mental health in Israel: Background, services, and challenges
• Chapter 13 Development of a mental health literacy program for secondary school students in Japan
• Chapter 14 A peer mental health educator model in African schools: Untapped potential
• Chapter 15 The current state of school mental health approaches and initiatives in Mexico and Chile
• Chapter 16 Flourishing Schools in Aotearoa, New Zealand: The Wellbeing in Schools Model
• Chapter 17 Universal schooling and mental health: Toward school mental health in northern Ghana
• Chapter 18 A Singapore model – REACH
• Chapter 19 Improving mental health via schools: A perspective from Istanbul, Turkey
• Chapter 20 School and community mental health promotion strategies for youth in Ukraine
• Chapter 21 Innovative contemplative/mindfulness„-based„ approaches tomental health in schools
• Chapter 22 The Life Course Model for providing empirically supported school„-based„ services for adolescents
• Chapter 23 Interconnecting school mental health and school„-wide„ positive behavior support
• Chapter 24 Global school mental health: Considerations and future directions
• Index