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Impact of the School Environment

Dewitt, D., Akst, L., Braun, K., Lefebvre, L., McKee, C., Rye, B.J., Shain, M. (2002). Sense of School Membership: A Mediating Mechanism Linking Student Perceptions of School Culture With Academic and Behavioural Functioning. Toronto, ON: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Effectiveness, Costs, and Benefits of Interventions

CASEL, ECS, LSS. 2003. Making the Case for Social and Emotional Learning and Service-Learning. Denver, Co: Education Commission of the States. (Report) Elias, M. Academic and social-emotional learning. Educational Practices Series. (Report)

Browne, G., Gafni, A., Roberts, J., Byrne, C., Majumdar, B. (2004). Effective/efficient mental health programs for school age children: a synthesis of reviews. Social Science and Medicine 58:1367-1384 Z

ins, J.E., Weissberg, R.P., Wang, M.C. and Walberg, H.J. (eds) (2004). Building academic success on social and emotional learning: What does the research say? New York: Teachers College Press.

Kurtz, Zarrina. (2004). What Works in Promoting Children’s Mental Health? The Evidence and the Implications for Sure Start Settings. Nottingham, England: DfES.

Tony Newman. (2004). What Works in Building Resilience? Barkingside, England: Barnardo’s. Bond, L., Thomas, L., Coffey, C., Glover, S., Butler, H., Carlin, J.B., Patton, G. (2004). Long-term impact of the Gatehouse Project on cannabis use of 16-year-olds in Australia. Journal of School Health, 74(1), 23-9.

CASEL, ECS, LSS. (2003). Making the Case for Social and Emotional Learning and Service-Learning. Denver, Co: Education Commission of the States. (Report)

Janosz, M., Georges, P., Parent, S. (1998). L’environnement éducatif à l’école secondaire : un modèle théorique pour guider l’évaluation du milieu. Revue Canadienne de Psycholo-Éducation, 27(2), 285-306.

McEvoy, A., Welker, R. (2000). Antisocial behavior, academic failure and school climate: A critical review. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 8, 130-140.

Patton, G.C., Glover, S., Bond, L., Butler, H., Godfrey, C., Di Pietro, G., Bowes, G. (2000). The Gatehouse Project: A systematic approach to mental health promotion in secondary schools. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 34, 586-593.

Wells, J., Barlow, J. and Stewart- Brown, S. (2003). A systematic review of universal approaches to mental health promotion in schools. Health Education Journal 103: 4 pp197-220.

Comprehensive Models that Integrate Diseases and Risks and Coordinate Interventions

Elias M. Academic and social-emotional learning. Educational Practices Series. (Report)

Policy Interventions Instructional Interventions

Elias M. Academic and social-emotional learning. Educational Practices Series. (Report)

Health Services Interventions

Social Support Interventions

Physical Environment Interventions