{"id":857,"date":"2018-03-21T11:12:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T18:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/?p=857"},"modified":"2018-03-21T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T18:50:21","slug":"effective-school-based-mental-health-interventions-children-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/effective-school-based-mental-health-interventions-children-elementary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"How effective are school-based mental health interventions for children in elementary school?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Effectiveness of School-Based Mental Health Services for Elementary-Aged Children: A Meta-Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

News Summary<\/strong>: This meta-analysis examines the effects of school-based mental health services for elementary school-age children delivered by school personnel. Forty-three controlled trials evaluating 49,941 elementary school-age children met criteria for inclusion in this study. The study used a randomized, between-subjects, controlled comparison or quasi-experimental design using matched samples to minimize selection bias. The study finds school-based mental health services had a small to medium effect size (Hedges\u00a0g\u00a0= 0.39) in decreasing mental health problems. The largest effect size was for targeted intervention, (Hedges\u00a0g\u00a0= 0.76), followed by selective prevention (Hedges\u00a0g\u00a0= 0.67) compared with universal prevention (Hedges\u00a0g\u00a0= 0.29).\u00a0Interventions integrated into student\u2019s academic instruction using contingency management were found to have positive impacts (Hedges\u00a0g\u00a0= 0.57), and interventions implemented multiple times per week (Hedges\u00a0g\u00a0= 0.50) were also shown to have a notable impact for improving student\u2019s lives. These results are promising considering the normal barriers that impede students from receiving mental health care outside of school and the fact 80% of mental health service are provided in schools by personnel who are readily available and are shown to be effective in addressing student\u2019s mental health needs (Ringeisen, Henderson, and Hoagwood, 2003).<\/p>\n

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