School-based Programs

 

Program: Coping with Distress and Self-Harm

Program Targets: Depression

Description: A cognitive-behavioral education program to teach youth what it means to feel distress, how to properly frame the distress, and how to cope with it. Coping skills are taught and include positive selftalk, empathy, help seeking, and refuting irrational thoughts. A 12-session program conducted in the classroom and at home through homework.

Design: RCT: Students in the treatment group exhibited greater coping skills and scored better on the Israeli Index of Potential Suicide.

Population: Eighth grade

Source: Rones and Hoagwood

From: http://www.nri-inc.org/reports_pubs/2006/EBPChildrensMatrix2006.pdf

 

 

Program: Coping with Stress

Program Targets: Depression

Description: A group cognitive-behavioral program targeted at students who report depressive symptoms. The program teaches students how to identify and change negative or irrational thoughts and beliefs that lead to feeling depressed. Held in school by trained psychologists and counselors in a group setting.

Design: RCT: Significantly fewer students in the treatment group exhibited major depression or dysthymia during follow-up than in the control group.

Population: Ninth and tenth grade students

Source: Rones and Hoagwood

From: http://www.nri-inc.org/reports_pubs/2006/EBPChildrensMatrix2006.pdf