Deighton, Jessica;
Thompson, Abigail;
Humphrey, Neil;
Thornton, Emma;
Knowles, Christopher;
Patalay, Praveetha;
Zhang, Kyann;
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(2025)
Effectiveness of school mental health
and wellbeing promotion: Universal approaches in English
primary and secondary schools.
Department for Education: London, UK.
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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.
| Type: | Report |
|---|---|
| Title: | Effectiveness of school mental health and wellbeing promotion: Universal approaches in English primary and secondary schools |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-83870-613-5 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67a... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | 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. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Behavioural Science and Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205397 |
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