This study explored the overall training experiences of the first cohort of school psychology students in China, examining how the program's coursework and initial practicum supported their competency development, as well as the challenges they encountered. Using a culturally adapted competency framework, the study assessed all first-cohort…

Guided by a theoretical discussion on the effect of internationalisation at home (IaH) practices on students' acquisition of intercultural competence, we used reflexive journals and semi-structured interviews to examine 10 international and 20 domestic students' goals, progress, and challenges in their engagement in an IaH intercultural programme.…

Global public health events such as the COVID-19 pandemic create public awareness of the need for skilled public health graduates and public health graduate programs. Core Competencies for Public Health are tools that can guide graduate-level public health programs to ensure students are receiving the appropriate knowledge, tools and skills…

The "Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills" (PEERS®) is an intervention targeting social skills for autistic adolescents and those with other social challenges. The efficacy of the PEERS® on adolescents has been extensively explored but the program has not been validated in Italy. In the present study, we adapted…

The quality of romantic relationships is associated with mental health and wellbeing throughout the life course. A number of programmes have been developed to support young people in navigating healthy relationships, and a larger role for relationship education was recently formalised in statutory guidance in England. This study aimed to…

Media literacy training is an urgent need of our time. Educational institutions must stand as fundamental domains to collectively address reflection on digital and media environments and prepare school-age citizens to constructively deal with the impact of the media. To do so, a paradigm shift to approach the issue is required: a critical…

The relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and numerous positive outcomes has sparked considerable interest from educators and researchers in training and promoting various emotional and social competencies in youth. The present study evaluated the effectiveness of a new school-based program for elementary school students designed to…

Society stigmatises people with learning disabilities (LD) and limits their opportunities to experience relationships [Callus and Farrugia 2016. "The Disabled Child's Participation Rights." Routledge]. Actions addressed at improving their competence in social skills may contribute to enhancing their social networks. Therefore, a…

Tier 1 school mental health programs for middle school youth often focus on healthy relationships promotion. However, the vast majority of these programs take a gender- and race-neutral approach (i.e., content that does not focus on the way that gender, race, and ethnicity intersect to shape relationships and mental health). Embedding these…

In the preschool period, children's friendships considered a crucial developmental task. Hence, it is critical to evaluate children's mental representations of friendships during this period. This study aims to evaluate the validity and reliability of the story completion protocol designed to evaluate preschool children's mental representations of…

Background: Video games can be innovative, educational and therapeutic tools that have demonstrated positive outcomes in enhancing emotional skills. Many of these programmes have shown benefits in improving children and adolescents' emotional competencies, but there is a lack of research evidence on programmes that aim to intervene within the…

Students with General Learning Difficulties present low levels of social competence. In order to increase them, students participate in school psychological support programmes. There are no research data available in Greece regarding social competence in students with General Learning Difficulties in the first grades of elementary school. The…

Investing in human capital, especially in leadership development programs, has become the focus of many corporations. However, due to a lack of proper training evaluation, many companies fail to measure the impact of the training. Through evaluation, companies can also identify part of the training which still lacks and subsequently improve it.…

This paper offers a rationale for how ESD related learning at postgraduate level can be assessed. It proposes a framework for evaluating whether assessments in Master's level programmes align with the pedagogical approach of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). If assessment is to contribute to the overall learning process, then the nature…

This paper explores the external developmental assets and how they manifest in specific youth programs from Colombia, Guatemala, and Honduras. An evaluation process was created through a qualitative phenomenological with the youth programs' leadership. To triangulate the data, a survey was developed and piloted with a small sample from three youth…