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Effectiveness of Promotive and Preventive Psychosocial Interventions on Improving the Mental Health of Finnish-Born and Immigrant Adolescents
Background: Schools are considered natural environments in which to enhance students’ social–emotional skills and mental health in general, but they can be especially important for students with refugee and immigrant backgrounds. The current study tested the effectiveness of two school-based interventions in enhancing the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents of native, refugee, and immigrant backgrounds. It further analyzed the…
2022
Derluyn I. Aalto S. Vänskä M. Lepistö R. Soye E. Watters C. Peltonen K. De Wal Pastoor L. Punamäki R.-L. Kankaanpää R.
Access & participation Resilience & adaptation Mental health & psychosocial well-being Racism & discrimination Intervention Socio-economic status Experimental & quasi-experimental study Surveys & questionnaire Finland Randomised control trial Teachers & educational staff Gender English
Effectiveness of psychosocial school interventions in Finnish schools for refugee and immigrant children, “Refugees Well School” in Finland (RWS-FI): a protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
Background: Schools are natural environments in which to enhance young people’s social and emotional skills, mental health, and contact between diverse groups, including students from refugee and immigrant backgrounds. A layered or tiered provision of services is recommended as it can be effective to meet the needs of war-affected adolescents who variably show mental health problems (such as posttraumatic stress…
2022
Hilden P.K. Verelst A. Derluyn I. Aalto S. Vänskä M. Lepistö R. Soye E. Watters C. Peltonen K. Punamäki R.-L. Kankaanpää R. Andersen A.
English Access & participation Resilience & adaptation Mental health & psychosocial well-being Intervention Experimental & quasi-experimental study Cognitive learning & development Finland Randomised control trial Socio-emotional learning & development Integration & assimilation Caregivers Teachers & educational staff