The FRIENDS Emotional Health Programme: Initial Findings from a School-Based Project

Autor: Sue Anderson, Neil Simpson, Paul Stallard, Caroline Osborn, Sarah Hibbert
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Child and adolescent mental healthReferences. 12(1)
ISSN: 1475-357X
Popis: Emotional disorders in children are common and although effective interventions are available comparatively few receive specialist help. School nurses were trained to deliver an evidence-based emotional health cognitive behaviour therapy programme, FRIENDS, to 106 non-referred children aged 9–10 attending three schools. Levels of anxiety and self-esteem were stable in the 6-month period before FRIENDS. Three months after completing FRIENDS, anxiety had significantly decreased and self-esteem increased. Children with the most severe emotional problems benefited from the programme. The value of delivering standardised evidence based programmes in schools by school nurses is discussed and the need for further research highlighted.
Databáze: OpenAIRE