Student mental health and psychological interventions in a school setting

Abstract

This chapter addresses the increasing community concern about student mental health and considers the role of the school psychologist in relation to this issue, both from a preventative and a treatment perspective. Intervention can be important and relevant at an individual, selective and universal level. Prevalence figures reveal that many students in schools will experience severe difficulties. Understanding and supporting students with these problems and disorders are an important task. At the same time school communities are challenged to consider ways to enhance the positive well-being of young people and develop a prevention focus alongside the focus on individual treatment. The school..