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Interventions to Promote School Attendance and Address Student Absence. Rapid Literature Review
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Glenn Melvin; Lisa McKay-Brown; David Heyne; Lauren Cameron – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2025
In 2023, the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) investigated student attendance in Australian schools at the request of Education Ministers. Two literature reviews were commissioned as part of this project. This rapid literature review is the result of a systematic review of 332 peer-reviewed journal articles that describe studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attendance, Intervention, Multi Tiered Systems of Support
Promoting Positive Mental Health in Adolescent Boys: Actions to Tackle Suicide in Australian Secondary Schools
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Carey, Sheridan Leone – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in Australian adolescent males and rates are gradually increasing. Prompt attention to this issue is needed to stem the rising rates and prevent young boys from taking their lives. School based programs are an obvious place for prevention to occur as they have the capacity to impact a majority of…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Secondary School Students, Males, Suicide
Evaluation of an Online Youth Ambassador Program to Promote Mental Health
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Beamish, Nicola; Cannan, Philippa; Fujiyama, Hakuei; Matthews, Allison; Spiranovic, Caroline; Briggs, Kate; Kirkby, Kenneth; Mobsby, Caroline; Daniels, Brett – Youth Studies Australia, 2011
This article presents results of an evaluation of an online Youth Ambassador (YA) program designed to promote internet resources for mental health in an adolescent population. Results suggest that an online YA program delivered in school is useful in improving mental health awareness for workshop participants. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Mental Health, Workshops, Internet
Resilience: An Entry Point for African Health Promoting Schools?
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Stewart, Donald – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of an Australian health promoting schools (HPS) project to identify key features of the concept of resilience and how it can be used in a school setting to develop and strengthen protective factors in young people, as a mechanism for improving social functioning and reducing involvement in…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Comprehensive School Health Education, Literature Reviews, Grade 3
The Longitudinal Association of Adolescent Dating Violence with Psychiatric Disorders and Functioning
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Brown, Adrienne; Cosgrave, Elizabeth; Killackey, Eoin; Purcell, Rosemary; Buckby, Joe; Yung, Alison R. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
While the prevalence, correlates and mental health impacts of intimate partner violence are well documented in adolescents and young adults, fewer studies have considered physical dating violence among clinical samples of help-seeking young people. In a sample of 98 young people aged 15-24 years (54% females) referred to a specialist public youth…
Descriptors: Health Services, Violence, Incidence, Mental Health Programs
Why Is There a Gender Gap in Children Presenting for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Services?
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Ohan, Jeneva L.; Visser, Troy A. W. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
This study addressed why girls are less likely to be referred for mental health services for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than boys. Ninety-six parents of children with elevated ADHD symptoms and 140 elementary school teachers read vignettes about children with ADHD. Half of the participants read vignettes with boys' names, and…
Descriptors: Health Services, Females, Mental Health Programs, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder