Health Education: Volume 109 Issue 4

Mental health – backbone of the soul

Peter Paulus

The purpose of this paper is to serve as an introduction to the theme of this special issue of Health Education on mental health in schools, focusing on work in Germany.

Stress‐prevention in secondary schools: online‐ versus face‐to‐face‐training

Mirko Fridrici, Arnold Lohaus

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the evaluation of an internet‐delivered stress‐prevention program for adolescents as a possible alternative for school‐based…

“Crazy? So what!”:: A school programme to promote mental health and reduce stigma – results of a pilot study

Ines Conrad, Sandra Dietrich, Dirk Heider, Anne Blume, Matthias C. Angermeyer, Steffi Riedel‐Heller

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the health‐promoting and stigma‐reducing effect of the German school‐based programme “Crazy? So what!”.

Mental health promotion in schools by strengthening self‐efficacy

Matthias Jerusalem, Johannes Klein Hessling

The purpose of this paper is to review two school intervention projects aiming to promote students' self‐efficacy in Germany. Self‐efficacy, defined as people's “beliefs in their…

School as a determinant for health outcomes – a structural equation model analysis

Ulrike Ravens‐Sieberer, John Freeman, Gyongyi Kokonyei, Christiane A. Thomas, Michael Erhart

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether students' perceptions of their school environment and their adjustment to school are associated with health outcomes across…

Strengthening “school” in school mental health promotion

Louise Rowling

The purpose of this paper is to highlight new and existing research on school characteristics that are essential elements in building the capacity of school communities to…

MindMatters – a programme for the promotion of mental health in primary and secondary schools: Results of an evaluation of the German language adaptation

M. Franze, P. Paulus

The purpose of this article is to present a German adaptation of the Australian programme MindMatters for school mental health promotion in secondary schools.