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Direct linkSamantha Reaves; Brittany Parham; Kristen Figas; Brooke Chehoski; Karah Palmer; Mark D. Weist – American Journal of Health Education, 2025
Background: School mental health literacy programs, delivered at the universal level, are key to promoting positive behavioral health for all youth. Successfully implementing these programs requires adaptation to ensure the programs are aligned with contextual demands of the schools in which they are implemented. Yet, little is known about how to…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Program Implementation, Middle Schools, Student Welfare
Sarah Kiefer; Jacqueline Blass; Sarah Fefer; Kai Zhuang Shum; Kristen Mahony-Atallah; Shannon Suldo; John Ferron – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
ABSTRACT Many youth seek and receive mental health treatment in schools, yet research on their perceptions of these interventions remains uncommon. This qualitative study explored how student perspectives on social validity informed the ongoing implementation and evaluation of the Well-Being Promotion Program (WBPP), a Tier 2 positive psychology…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Middle School Students, Well Being, Intervention
Morgan Faith Schneider – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States is tobacco product use. The 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey, which was completed in 2022, showed that the e-cigarette epidemic among youth continues to remain a public health threat. The survey revealed that over 2.5 million middle and high school students…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Smoking, Prevention
Download full textMarie-Andrée Somers; Michelle Dixon; Claudia Solís-Román; Megan Schwartz; Olivia Lalanne; Bryce Marshall; Lauren Lee; Osvaldo Avila – MDRC, 2025
LifeSkills Training is the only program to prevent substance use disorder among adolescents that has evidence of effects on substance use outcomes from multiple randomized controlled trials. Evaluations have shown that the version for middle school students reduces their use of substances in high school, but these studies were conducted in the…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Middle School Students, Substance Abuse, Drug Use
Malena A. Nygaard – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students present with mental health needs and posttraumatic stress symptoms, yet they largely do not receive necessary services. Since schools are an ideal setting for students to receive mental health services, Mental Health Action Plans (MHAPs) were developed to define and detail the ways in which student mental health needs can be addressed at…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Health Programs, Student Needs, Social Development
Burke, Robert E.; Hoffman, Neal D.; Guy, Laura; Bailey, Jodi; Silver, Ellen Johnson – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: This study describes the experience of implementing a screening, monitoring, and referral to treatment (SMARTT) initiative at an urban middle school school-based health center. Methods: Retrospective data were collected for adolescents screened with the Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17-Y. At-risk adolescents having unmet health needs…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Mental Health, School Health Services
Autumn Barnes, Contributor; Adina Cooper, Contributor; Marci Hertz, Contributor; Kesha Hudson, Contributor; Sarah Lee, Contributor; Sandra Leonard, Contributor; Bailee Peralto, Contributor; Mary Schauer, Contributor; Katy Suellentrop, Contributor; Jorge Verlenden, Contributor; Natalie Wilkins, Contributor; Camara Wooten, Contributor; Anna Yaros, Contributor – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023
This action guide was designed for school administrators in kindergarten through 12th grade schools (K-12), including principals and leaders of school-based student support teams, to identify evidence-based strategies, approaches, and practices that can positively influence students' mental health. This action guide describes six in-school…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Schools, Early Childhood Education, Middle Schools
Amanda J. Nguyen; Jacqueline Hersh; Lydia Beahm; Lora Henderson Smith; Courtney Newman; Katelyn Birchfield; Kurt Michael; Catherine P. Bradshaw – School Mental Health, 2024
Background: Educators in rural schools are uniquely situated to address youth mental health disparities, yet often face challenges in delivering mental health supports. This paper describes the process of adapting the evidence-based Coping Power program, a small group prevention program for youth with aggressive behavior problems, to be a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Program Length
Peralta, Louisa R.; Cinelli, Renata L.; Marvell, Claire L. – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: The ability of schools, school leaders and teachers to promote critical health literacy in teaching and learning is central to the development of health literacy in schools. However, research focusing on teachers and planning for health literacy through health programmes in school is minimal. This paper describes how one school Health…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Programs, School Activities, Foreign Countries
Jacquelyn Potvin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Background: Youth from low-income, racially and ethnically diverse families are at increased risk for academic challenges and nutritionally inadequate diets. Summer programs offer an opportunity to foster interest and engage students in science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) education while addressing summer learning loss.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Juan Gregorio Fernández-Bustos; Pablo Cuesta-Valera; David Zamorano-García – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
Physical education is often viewed as a public health tool that can be used to increase the amount of physical activity young people engage in. However, not only should the amount of physical activity at school and in physical education lessons be increased, but students should also acquire the knowledge, skills, motivation and responsibility that…
Descriptors: Child Health, Physical Education, Multiple Literacies, Student Motivation
Caldarella, Paul; Moya, Malka S. – Middle Grades Review, 2022
Middle school is a time of adjustments in youth: physical, intellectual, and social changes often result in stress. Middle school students are vulnerable to academic, behavioral, and mental health problems. Yoga is an Indian discipline practiced for health and relaxation. School-based yoga programs are becoming increasingly common given their…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Metacognition, Physical Activities, Mental Health
School Personnel's Experiences with Implementing Texas House Bill 114 on Vaping: A Qualitative Study
Haijing Ma; Ranier Perez – Health Education Journal, 2025
Background: In 2023, the US state of Texas passed a bill on vaping in school -- House Bill 114 (HB 114) -- which took effect in Texas public schools on 1 September of that year. HB 114 mandates that any student caught vaping in school be placed on a Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP). The efficacy of HB 114 may be contingent, at…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Smoking, Student Behavior, Public Schools
Dariotis, Jacinda K.; Mabisi, Keren; Jackson-Gordon, Rachel; Yang, Nan; Rose, Emma Jane; Mendelson, Tamar; Fishbein, Diana H. – Prevention Science, 2023
Determining the factors that influence implementation of school-based wellbeing and health programs is essential for achieving desired program effects. Using a convergent mixed-methods, multiple informant design, this study considered factors that influence implementation of health programs for ninth grade students and in what ways implementation…
Descriptors: Students, Grade 9, Well Being, Health Programs
R. Andrew Yockey; Kruti Chaliawala; Rebecca A. Vidourek; Keith King – Journal of School Nursing, 2025
E-cigarettes are a popular type of nicotine product among youth in the United States. Hispanic youth, one of the fastest growing populations in the United States, are second only to white youth for e-cigarette use. Analysis of the Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education data was conducted to determine past 30-day e-cigarette use among…
Descriptors: Smoking, Electronic Equipment, Drug Education, Hispanic American Students
