Implementing Statewide Practices That Promote Student Wellness and Resilience

2020 ◽  
pp. 459-480
Author(s):  
Amity Noltemeyer ◽  
Cricket Meehan ◽  
Emily Jordan ◽  
Michael Petrasek
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
State Level ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Federal Grants ◽  
Student Wellness

Wellness and resilience promotion efforts are often an underutilized opportunity to address the mental health needs of children and youth. Organizations and individuals with state-level reach are ideally poised to develop and disseminate infrastructure, training, and resources to support wellness and resilience promotion efforts. This chapter highlights 8 key systems and practices that can inform and support such statewide efforts. Examples within Ohio, a recipient of 2 federal grants to support behavioral and mental health promotion, are used to illustrate the eight systems and practices. The chapter incorporates recommendations for others seeking to promote wellness and resilience in their respective contexts.

scholarly journals Interconnected or disconnected? Promotion of mental health and prevention of mental disorder in the digital age

2016 ◽  
Vol 208 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph F. Hayes ◽  
Daniel L. Maughan ◽  
Hugh Grant-Peterkin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Disorder Prevention

SummaryTo date there have been few peer-reviewed studies on the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of digital technologies for mental health promotion and disorder prevention. Any evaluation of these evolving technologies is complicated by a lack of understanding about the specific risks and possible benefits of the many forms of internet use on mental health. To adequately meet the mental health needs of today's society, psychiatry must engage in rigorous assessment of the impact of digital technologies.

scholarly journals The contradictions between Canadian capitalist processes and youth mental health: implications for mental health promotion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shari Laliberte ◽  
Colleen Varcoe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Young People ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Understanding how socio-economic processes inter-relate with young people’s mental health is important to inform the development of responsive mental health promotion initiatives. Thirty diverse Canadian young people were engaged within a process of social praxis, underpinned by a historical-dialectical ontological perspective, to explore the inter-relation among socio-economic processes and youth mental health and implications for mental health promotion initiatives. Findings show several inter-related contradictory processes within two overarching contradictory dynamics that Canadian youth are navigating as they seek to realize their mental health needs. The first overarching contradictory dynamic is between monetized, private, individualistic, profit-oriented economic processes and young people’s need for resources, freedom and time, and inclusive social spaces to enable their mental health needs. Participants’ descriptions of their approaches to seeking to realize their mental health needs in this context reflects a second inter-related overarching contradiction between communal and individual approaches to enabling young people’s mental health needs. In this context, young people are oriented inward to meet their mental health needs at the individual and inter-personal level, despite the crucial role of socio-economic processes to enabling their mental health needs. Despite varied access to resources, all participants struggled to balance meeting their mental health needs. Implications of these findings entail the need to focus on promoting synergistic relations among young people and socio-economic processes whereby enabling universal access to resources for young people’s survival, physical health and comfort is foundational to multi-level mental health promotion initiatives.

Living through war: Mental health of children and youth in conflict-affected areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (911) ◽  
pp. 481-506
Author(s):  
Rochelle L. Frounfelker ◽  
Nargis Islam ◽  
Joseph Falcone ◽  
Jordan Farrar ◽  
Chekufa Ra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Psychosocial Impact ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Supportive Environments

AbstractChildren in armed conflict are frequently deprived of basic needs, psychologically supportive environments, educational and vocational opportunities, and other resources that promote positive psychosocial development and mental health. This article describes the mental health challenges faced by conflict-affected children and youth, the interventions designed to prevent or ameliorate the psychosocial impact of conflict-related experiences, and a case example of the challenges and opportunities related to addressing the mental health needs of Rohingya children and youth.

scholarly journals Mental Health Promotion Efforts for Children and Youth in Canada and Beyond: Evidence in Research, Policy and Practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Whitley ◽  
Suzanne Gooderham
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mental Health Difficulties

terms of both psychological and academic outcomes. Growing numbers of students are placed “at risk” as a result. A mental health promotion approach suggests that students can develop a number of skills and competencies, namely those related to social-emotional learning (SEL), which can reduce their chance of developing mental health difficulties. In Canada, a wide range of curricula, frameworks, initiatives, and programs have been put in place that address elements of SEL. In this paper, a sampling of these drawn from across the country is described. The emphasis on SEL apparent in many provinces and territories is evidence of the shared understanding of its importance with respect to improving student outcomes. However, a lack of evidence to support these approaches, inconsistencies in terms of terminology and practices, the lack of alignment between SEL and academics, and the piecemeal approach adopted within some provinces leave SEL and mental health promotion approaches vulnerable to being labelled “add-ons” and becoming transient initiatives.

scholarly journals The Role of Educational Leaders in Supporting the Mental Health of All Students

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Whitley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Difficulties ◽  
Recent Attention

There has been recent attention paid to the mental health issues experienced by many children and youth in Canada and internationally. In particular, the role of the school and educational leaders in preventing mental health difficulties and in-tervening in the case of mental illnesses has been highlighted. This paper presents an overview of several policies, programs, and initiatives related to the preven-tion of and intervention for mental health difficulties in Canadian schools with a focus on the Ontario context. Following this, literature examining the role of edu-cational leaders in meeting the mental health needs of students will be reviewed and recommendations put forward.

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