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Making unsubstantiated claims that pandemic online learning caused mental health problems doesn’t help us address students’ current needs.
Punishing attendance problems fails to address the issues facing students, from family responsibilities to barriers related to racism or inadequate support for disabilities.
The transition to a new school year will be an important time for students to focus on strategies for fostering positive mental health and well-being, and recognizing signs that help may be needed.
Three years observing in a public school has given one scholar a close-up look at the sweeping challenges in public education.
Surveillance cameras, metal detectors, door-locking systems and armed guards have not prevented school shootings. A school safety scholar examines other possible approaches.
School violence prevention requires professionals – counselors, psychologists and social workers – who know how to create an emotionally safe environment. Those staffers are in very short supply.
Waiting for kids to show signs of distress has little value, says a researcher who is pushing schools to take a more proactive approach toward student mental health.
Many Australian children are returning to school after spending the best part of two years learning from home. Such a long break can understandably make many anxious. But there are ways to help.
We investigated the initiatives schools around the world took to help support and maintain the well-being of their students and staff. We pulled out seven things that made a difference.
The pandemic has introduced a new context for university instructors navigating boundaries and responsibilities around their students’ and their own well-being and mental health.
Our study shows almost one in four university and vocational education students report extremely high levels of distress during the pandemic.
Is there a mental health crisis among young people, or are worry and sadness to be expected? Pathologizing normal, healthy responses to adverse events promotes misunderstanding about mental illness.
Cancelling campus events won’t address the potential harms of binge drinking this fall. Universities must plan additional activities to curb risky alcohol use and promote student wellness.
International students are a vulnerable population who have faced many stressors in the COVID-19 pandemic. Emotional intelligence can help navigate these.
Queer people have learned to build and rely on “chosen families.” Finding ways to creatively bolster and expand our networks of care takes on renewed importance in the pandemic.
We asked young people aged five to 15 in Darwin about their sense of safety and what they worry about in their community. Here’s what they told us.
University students had high rates of mental health issues before the pandemic. The additional stressors of COVID-19 and social isolation will make them even more vulnerable over the winter.
Both university and government policy-makers need to re-tool their messaging to students about off-campus socializing to shape more positive mental health and COVID-19 outcomes.
The design of a campus and its buildings and dorms can be crucial to a student’s overall well-being.
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Affiliated researcher, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor, College of Arts, Society & Education, James Cook University
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology, Royal Roads University
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Professor, School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Education, Southern Cross University
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Senior Lecturer and Socio-cultural researcher, UniSA Education Futures, University of South Australia
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Fulbright Scholar and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Monash University
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S.J. Axelrod Collegiate Professor of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan
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Lecturer in Arts Education, Western Sydney University
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Professor - Autism and inclusive education, Queensland University of Technology
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Vice-Chancellor's Fellow for the Public Benefit of Higher Education, University of Sheffield
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Professor in Education, University of Auckland
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Psychologist, University of South Florida
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