The Impact of School-Based Student Support Services, Creating Positive Change to Mental Health and Academic Success
Faculty Mentor
ManChui Leung
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Start Date
10-5-2023 12:50 PM
End Date
10-5-2023 1:10 PM
Location
PUB 321
Department
Social Work
Abstract
In our present society, we are observing how the coronavirus pandemic perpetuated a mental health crisis among the country’s youth and their families. Although this event has mostly illuminated a chronic issue that decades of youth and families have been experiencing. The practice of this systematic review revealed that researchers and advocates for school-based support for students have been identifying and discussing this problem since the 1960s. Yet, there is still not a uniform program for school-based health services as evidenced by the variety of used interventions within the school to address student issues. Now that our world has experienced this pandemic, the sudden shelter-in-place transitions combined with an inconsistent system that was meant to support student health and academic success, has progressed into an overwhelming emergency for which there is not enough government funding nor personnel to address such an evident need. Students have endured transitions, many were not supported, participation and academic success decreased, and mental health crises increased. It was a difficult time for many, and these difficulties have not subsided. Further research is needed to present how funding for school-based health and student services is needed, if not required, for the positive development of our nation’s youth.
This study is proposed to answer how/what school-based student support and health services are being implemented in high schools, and which of these interventions is most effective in reducing symptoms of acute and chronic mental health issues while improving their academic success?
Recommended Citation
Kent, Joshua, "The Impact of School-Based Student Support Services, Creating Positive Change to Mental Health and Academic Success" (2023). 2023 Symposium. 9.
https://dc.ewu.edu/srcw_2023/res_2023/os3_2023/9
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The Impact of School-Based Student Support Services, Creating Positive Change to Mental Health and Academic Success
PUB 321
In our present society, we are observing how the coronavirus pandemic perpetuated a mental health crisis among the country’s youth and their families. Although this event has mostly illuminated a chronic issue that decades of youth and families have been experiencing. The practice of this systematic review revealed that researchers and advocates for school-based support for students have been identifying and discussing this problem since the 1960s. Yet, there is still not a uniform program for school-based health services as evidenced by the variety of used interventions within the school to address student issues. Now that our world has experienced this pandemic, the sudden shelter-in-place transitions combined with an inconsistent system that was meant to support student health and academic success, has progressed into an overwhelming emergency for which there is not enough government funding nor personnel to address such an evident need. Students have endured transitions, many were not supported, participation and academic success decreased, and mental health crises increased. It was a difficult time for many, and these difficulties have not subsided. Further research is needed to present how funding for school-based health and student services is needed, if not required, for the positive development of our nation’s youth.
This study is proposed to answer how/what school-based student support and health services are being implemented in high schools, and which of these interventions is most effective in reducing symptoms of acute and chronic mental health issues while improving their academic success?
