eprintid: 10205397
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datestamp: 2025-03-07 16:43:24
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creators_name: Deighton, Jessica
creators_name: Thompson, Abigail
creators_name: Humphrey, Neil
creators_name: Thornton, Emma
creators_name: Knowles, Christopher
creators_name: Patalay, Praveetha
creators_name: Zhang, Kyann
creators_name: Evans-Lacko, Sarah
creators_name: Hayes, Daniel
creators_name: March, Anna
creators_name: Mansfield, Rosie
creators_name: Santos, Joao
creators_name: Deniz, Emre
creators_name: Stallard, Paul
creators_name: Ashworth, Emma
creators_name: Moltrecht, Bettina
creators_name: Nisbet, Kirsty
creators_name: Stapley, Emily
creators_name: Mason, Carla
creators_name: Stepanous, Jessica
creators_name: Rasmus Boehnke, Jan
title: Effectiveness of school mental health
and wellbeing promotion: Universal approaches in English
primary and secondary schools
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: D12
divisions: J96
note: Copyright © Department for Education copyright 2025.
This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0,
except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit
nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3.
abstract: Funded by the Department for Education, Education for Wellbeing was one of England's
largest research programmes for school-based mental health interventions. The aim of
the programme was to evaluate pioneering ways of supporting the mental wellbeing of
pupils.
The programme was split into two trials: AWARE (Approaches for Wellbeing and Mental
Health Literacy: Research in Education), tested in secondary school settings, and
INSPIRE (Interventions in Schools for Promoting Wellbeing: Research in Education),
tested in both primary and secondary school settings.
This briefing focuses on the results for the INSPIRE trial which explored three initiatives
either based around techniques to support mental wellbeing, or approaches to support
and encourage help-seeking and allied strategies. These initiatives were delivered in
years 4 and 5 in primary schools and 7 and 8 in secondary schools. These approaches
were developed specifically for the study and had not been trialled previously. These
were: Mindfulness-Based Exercises; Relaxation Techniques and Strategies for Safety
and Wellbeing (an 8-lesson mental health literacy programme). Specifically the trial explored the impact of these interventions in the short and longer term on children and
young people’s self-reported emotional difficulties and intentions to seek help in future if
experiencing mental health problems (intended help-seeking). The trial was conducted
with 20,489 pupils across 213 schools.
date: 2025-02
date_type: published
publisher: Department for Education
official_url: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67a34dd7b74b3d9dfe36ca7e/Effectiveness_of_school_mental_health_and_wellbeing_promotion.pdf
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2364920
isbn_13: 978-1-83870-613-5
confidential: false
lyricists_name: Hayes, Daniel
lyricists_id: DPHAY31
actors_name: Hayes, Daniel
actors_id: DPHAY31
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
number: RR1490
place_of_pub: London, UK
pages: 29
citation:             Deighton, Jessica;    Thompson, Abigail;    Humphrey, Neil;    Thornton, Emma;    Knowles, Christopher;    Patalay, Praveetha;    Zhang, Kyann;                                                          + view all  <#>        Deighton, Jessica;  Thompson, Abigail;  Humphrey, Neil;  Thornton, Emma;  Knowles, Christopher;  Patalay, Praveetha;  Zhang, Kyann;  Evans-Lacko, Sarah;  Hayes, Daniel;  March, Anna;  Mansfield, Rosie;  Santos, Joao;  Deniz, Emre;  Stallard, Paul;  Ashworth, Emma;  Moltrecht, Bettina;  Nisbet, Kirsty;  Stapley, Emily;  Mason, Carla;  Stepanous, Jessica;  Rasmus Boehnke, Jan;   - view fewer  <#>     (2025)    Effectiveness of school mental health and wellbeing promotion: Universal approaches in English primary and secondary schools.                    Department for Education: London, UK.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205397/1/Effectiveness_of_school_mental_health_and_wellbeing_promotion.pdf