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And they might even make children's mental health worse!
Anyone with common sense can understand this. If you are already mentally healthy--and most children are--cogitating on what is wrong just makes you feel worse. What helps? Learning things. Engaging. Facing challenges and overcoming them.
Lucy Foulkes is a UK psychologist who has studied this. Her article is enlightening. Except and link here:
Researchers have now run many studies testing the impact of universal school mental-health interventions and have found that they don’t really improve mental health. When improvements are found, they’re small – a tiny average shift on a symptom questionnaire – and the quality of the research is often poor, meaning it’s hard to trust the findings. The best-designed studies show that interventions don’t work at all: no improvement in mental health symptoms, either immediately after the course of lessons or later down the line.
In fact, some studies have found that universal mental-health lessons actually make things worse. There are now high-quality studies showing that school lessons based on CBT, mindfulness, dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) and general mental-health awareness lead to a small increase in symptoms of mental-health difficulties. There is evidence of other bad outcomes too, such as decreased prosocial behaviour or decreased relationship quality with parents.
fromtheschoolgates.co.uk
Anyone with common sense can understand this. If you are already mentally healthy--and most children are--cogitating on what is wrong just makes you feel worse. What helps? Learning things. Engaging. Facing challenges and overcoming them.
Lucy Foulkes is a UK psychologist who has studied this. Her article is enlightening. Except and link here:
Researchers have now run many studies testing the impact of universal school mental-health interventions and have found that they don’t really improve mental health. When improvements are found, they’re small – a tiny average shift on a symptom questionnaire – and the quality of the research is often poor, meaning it’s hard to trust the findings. The best-designed studies show that interventions don’t work at all: no improvement in mental health symptoms, either immediately after the course of lessons or later down the line.
In fact, some studies have found that universal mental-health lessons actually make things worse. There are now high-quality studies showing that school lessons based on CBT, mindfulness, dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) and general mental-health awareness lead to a small increase in symptoms of mental-health difficulties. There is evidence of other bad outcomes too, such as decreased prosocial behaviour or decreased relationship quality with parents.
Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes. First seen in Education | The Guardian. By Lucy Foulkes. – From the School Gates
It’s Saturday afternoon and my friend’s five-year-old daughter is lying next to me on her living room floor. She explains to me that she does this at school. She lies on her back with the rest of the class and they do something called the body scanner, where they all pay attention to various body…
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