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There is a large body of evidence for the poor mental health of both undergraduate and postgraduate students in higher education settings (Peluso, Carleton, & Gordon, 2011), leading to the Higher...
Continue reading blog postThe context for this work is complex – all students are faced with academic stressors, which can be further compounded by factors including separation from their support networks and...
Continue reading blog postEducation Support is the mental health and wellbeing charity of the education sector. We provide accredited counselling and welfare support to individuals, wellbeing services that enable schools...
Continue reading blog postThe PGCE route into teaching has the lowest retention rate (Allen et al., 2016). Many students embarking on a PGCE are warned about the challenges of the course, as the following blog extract...
Continue reading blog postValues and wellbeing Many teachers in England and Europe report the demands of their job harm their wellbeing (Education Support, 2019; ETUCE, 2011). Poor wellbeing is cited as a key reason why...
Continue reading blog postWe are concerned here with the extent of mental wellbeing and, in particular, distress and other difficulties with wellbeing, and whether such difficulties continue as young people move from...
Continue reading blog postThe mental health and wellbeing of both learners and teaching staff are among the most pressing issues facing education in the coming decade. This special issue of the BERA Blog presents a...
The Youth Mental Health First Aid in Schools programme (Youth MHFA) is a policy initiative intended to enable education practitioners to spot the signs of mental health issues in children and...
Continue reading blog postIn the context of increasing demand for specialist mental health (MH) services, emphasis has been placed on school-based early intervention to prevent or de-escalate later MH issues. The case for...
Continue reading blog postFinding ways to support and identify children and young people (CYP) who self-harm is an important social issue. Incidences of self-harm in CYP in the UK have risen in the last 20 years, with the...
Continue reading blog postSupporting children’s mental health and wellbeing in schools Last year’s State of the nation 2019 report (DfE, 2019a) on children and young people’s wellbeing indicated that the majority...
Continue reading blog postThe mental health and wellbeing of learners and teaching staff rank among some of the most pressing issues facing education as we enter a new decade. Growing rates of emotional distress among...
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