This Continental Strategy on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Teachers in Africa (CSMHPSS) provides guidance on how to contribute to better mental health and psychosocial support for teachers.
This manual covers topics on reproductive health, puberty, moral education and gender relations, mental health, including the use of gadgets, violence such as bullying and racketeering in school, proper nutrition and eating habits (anorexia, bulimia), risk factors of non-communicable diseases.
Funded by the Department for Education, Education for Wellbeing was one of England's largest research programmes testing the effectiveness of school-based mental health interventions.
This policy brief provides an overview of the findings from a national cost-benefit analysis on mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions among children and adolescents aged five years and above in education settings in Thailand.
A growing body of academic literature recognizes the importance of supporting students’ wellbeing in school settings. Approaches to supporting students’ wellbeing tend to focus on students’ subjective wellbeing, largely focusing on individuals’ mental health and advocating positive psychology.
The Review and Assessment of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in Education Systems (RAMES) is a diagnostic tool designed to help education systems evaluate their readiness to support students' and educators' psychosocial well-being both in, and through education.
Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the onset of mental disorders and risk behaviours. Whole‐school interventions hold vast potential in improving mental health and preventing risk behaviours in this developmentally‐sensitive cohort.
No matter the location or education level, schools can and should be fundamentally joyous places. At best, schools stimulate happiness through all five senses: seeing a teacher smile, hearing students laugh, feeling a hug from a friend, smelling fresh air, tasting a nutritious school meal.
This policy brief outlines the importance of teacher and education support personnel (ESP) wellbeing to high quality education.
The High-level Panel on the Teaching Profession was convened by the United Nations Secretary General in response to the global teacher shortage. The Panel brought together academics, ministers, former presidents, and teachers and students and their unions.