ABSTRACT

Mental Health and Academic Learning in Schools: Approaches for Facilitating the Wellbeing of Children and Young People investigates the many areas impacting on young people’s learning and mental health in a unified manner. Offering a new model for teaching, learning and connecting with young people, it provides compelling evidence about the intertwined nature of students’ academic performance, mental health and behaviour.

The book presents integrated models and strategies that serve to enhance student learning and promote wellbeing. Chapters explore issues relating to classroom management, school culture and leadership, staff wellbeing, pedagogy, inclusion and the curriculum. Placing students at the centre of decision making, the book showcases innovative models and strategies that schools might use for preventing problems, engaging students and identifying and addressing learning or mental health problems that some students might experience.

This book will appeal to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of mental health and education, and will also be of interest to school counsellors, educational psychologists and those working with young people in schools.

chapter 1|5 pages

Alice’s story

chapter 5|20 pages

School culture and climate

chapter 6|15 pages

Reconceptualising student behaviour

chapter 7|18 pages

Teaching and learning

chapter 8|15 pages

Partnerships

chapter 9|16 pages

Inclusivity

Celebrating diversity

chapter 10|11 pages

Staff wellbeing

chapter 11|12 pages

Trauma-informed schools

chapter 12|16 pages

Making a difference

Are we there yet?