Missing the Context: Social Inequalities and School-Based Mental Health Interventions

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.26254
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Karen Mansfield discusses her JCPP Advances Editorial Perspective ‘Missing the context: The challenge of social inequalities to school‐based mental health interventions’ (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12165).
Karen’s work aims to apply solid research to understand, promote, and protect the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents, with a particular interest in the promotion of equity, inclusion, engagement, and agency.
Discussion points include:

• The link between social economic adversity and children’s mental health.
• Scepticism around the impact and effectiveness of school-based intervention programmes.
• Potential issues of a ‘one size fits all’ approach and a ‘selective approach’.
• What to consider when designing interventions that both improve wellbeing and reduce inequalities.
• The challenges around measuring effectiveness.
• Potential policy shifts to consider and practical ways to improve children’s wellbeing in schools.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.