Cocreation and evaluation of an intervention promoting teachers’ mental health literacy: the TEACH-MHE project
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Although rarely studied, children’s mental health is a major public health issue. Teachers play a key role in preventing and promoting students’ mental well-being, but often lack the necessary tools. The TEACH-MHE project aims to develop a scale for measuring mental health literacy and to create an online course for future teachers, to better equip them for this essential mission
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Children’s mental health is a rarely studied subject, but also a major public health issue.
Teachers play a key role in preventing and promoting the mental health of students, particularly in elementary school.
Indeed, at this stage of their lives, children spend most of their time at school, where they develop both personally and socially.
However, their teachers are not equipped to deal with this subject in the classroom.
The theory of mental health literacy refers to the information, knowledge and beliefs surrounding the psychological well-being of people, including children.
Consequently, a good level of mental health literacy enables people to identify signs of ill-being and know how to react to and manage them.
With this idea the BPH HEALTHY team is initiating the TEACH-MHE project, which has a double objective:
– To develop and validate a scale that measures the mental health literacy of students in teacher training
– To co-create, test and evaluate the first online course aimed at improving the mental health literacy of this population
Members of the HEALTHY team will collect and analyze data using mixed methods.
Funded by the University of Bordeaux, this is an international project between France and Australia, but also an interdisciplinary one, based on communication and training sciences, education sciences, psychology and public health.