Technology and Child and Adolescent Mental Health
This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk. Young people spend a great deal of their time online and using a range...
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A Curriculum for Wellbeing: A British Curriculum Forum conference
Update (Friday 13 March): unfortunately the conference previewed in this blog, which was to be held on Saturday 14 March, has been postponed. To be kept updated on its rearrangement please email...
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Teacher wellbeing: A systemic perspective
Education 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...
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The PGCE journey: Wellbeing and workload
The 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...
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Personal values and trainee teacher wellbeing
Values 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...
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Mental health and wellbeing in doctoral students from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds
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...
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Ensuring students achieve, thrive and survive their educational journeys: Using creative ways to support learning and resilience
The 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...
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Continuities in mental wellbeing from adolescence into early adulthood
We 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 postResearching education and mental health: From ‘Where are we now?’ to ‘What next?’
The 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...
Education practitioners’ and students’ perspectives on youth mental health first aid provision within education settings in England
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...
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Whole-school approaches to building resilience and promoting mental health: Embracing complexity
In 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...
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Self-harm in primary-aged school children
Finding 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...
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