Effective mental

health programs for

school age children
 Content:
• What is mental health?
• Definition of Comprehensive School Mental Health
• Schools Are a Natural Setting to Support Mental Health
• Implementing School-Based Mental Health Services
• Benefits of School-Based Mental Health Services
• Conclusion
What is mental health?
Mental health includes our
emotional, psychological, and
social well-being. It affects how
we think, feel, and act. It also
helps determine how we
handle stress, relate to others,
and make choices. Mental
health is important at every
stage of life, from childhood
and adolescence through
adulthood
Definition of Comprehensive School Mental Health
• Promote a positive school climate

• Teach and support skills for social,

emotional, and behavioral health

• Prevent mental health and substance use

problems

• Intervene early to reduce the severity of

mental health concerns; and
 Schools Are a Natural Setting to
Support Mental Health
Mentally healthy students are more likely to go to school ready to learn,
actively engage in school activities, have supportive and caring connections
with adults and young people, use appropriate problem-solving skills, have
nonaggressive behaviors, and add to positive school culture.

Schools provide a natural setting in which students can receive needed supports
and services and where families are comfortable and trusting in accessing these
supports and services.
 Implementing School-Based Mental Health
Services
Develop evidence-based
programs to promote a positive
school atmosphere and student
abilities in dealing with bullying
and conflicts, solving problems,
creating healthy peer
relationships, participating in
suicide and substance abuse
prevention activities, and so on.
Benefits of School-Based Mental
Health Services
achieve academically and
have access to experiences
that build social skills,
leadership, self-awareness,
and caring connections to
adults in their school and
community
enhance the academic and discipline rates,
success of individual increase the rates of high
students.7 These school graduation, and help
partnerships have found to create a positive school
significantly improve environment in which a
schoolwide truancy student can learn and be
successful in school and in
the community.
Conclusion
To sum up, due to the fact that children spend most of their time
at school, all of us teachers, psychologists should be aware of any
problems regarding children. Perhaps the children are being
bullied by high school students, or there is a lot of downloaded
information and homework, and the children do not know how to
behave. We have to help them. by working with their parents. Let
them know that we are together and we will help.
 References:
• https://youth.gov/youth-topics/
youth-mental-health/school-based
Thank you for
your attention!