Editorial Perspective: Missing the context: The challenge of social inequalities to school-based mental health interventions

Featured ACAMH Papers

Bringing you some selected Open Access journal papers from our portfolio; The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP), Child and Adolescent Mental Health journal (CAMH), and JCPP Advances.

Posted on 28 April 2023

Tags: Mental health, Inequalities & discrimination… Show all

Topics: Mental health
Populations: Inequalities & discrimination, School, Social determinants
Interventions: School-based interventions
Publication Types: Editorial, Journal article

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‘Missing the context: The challenge of social inequalities to school-based mental health interventions’

Open Access paper from JCPP Advances

Given well-established links between socio-economic adversity and mental health, it is unsurprising that young people’s mental health is deteriorating amidst economic crises. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recognises mental health as “crucial to personal, community, and socio-economic development” and outlines goals to reshape environments such as schools to protect mental health. Schools offer an ideal setting to promote wellbeing and prevent mental ill-health during a key developmental window. We describe how social inequalities present a challenge to designing school-based interventions for prevention and promotion for mental health and wellbeing, and suggest priorities to aid and evaluate their effectiveness.

Authors: Karen L. Mansfield, Obioha C. Ukoumunne, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Jesus Montero-Marin, Sarah Byford, Tamsin Ford, Willem Kuyken