Category: Health and Mental Health

Schools provide an environment where students find opportunities to build resilience, acquire the necessary skills to effectively respond to mental health challenges, and improve well-being (Arslan & Yıldırım, 2021). The promotion of well-being at school can be achieved through positive education (Arslan et al., 2021), which refers to the integration of traditional education goals with…

Positive psychology emphasizes individual strengths such as happiness and well-­ being as the pillars of personal growth, self-fulfillment, flourishing, thriving, and health. Well-being is an important concept for different domains of life including school settings. Personal well-being at school is a key element to contributes to students’ healthy lifestyles and psychosocial and physical health. The…

The refugee crisis is a global phenomenon that continues to affect people regardless of age, race, sex, gender, and economic status. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pan-demic and political unrest have brought to the forefront the ongoing challenges refugees experience on a continuing basis. A refugee is defined by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)…

Based on the previous discussion, school-based interventions appear to have many advantages related to access and stigma reduction; however, they might not be suf-ficient to meet the needs of all refugee families and destigmatize seeking help for mental illness. Therefore, interventions targeted at the community level can foster more support for refugee youth and their…

Young people are at high risk for mental health disorders (Kesslerk et al., 2007), and it is estimated that around 20% of youths globally experience a mental health issue (Kieling et al., 2011; World Health Organization, 2003). Mental health disorders can have a lasting impact on youth’s functioning and increase the risk of developing additional…

Several studies and literature reviews have examined different strategies for address-ing individual early mental health interventions for refugee youth. A study by Grasser et al. (2021) suggests integrating mental health screening into the initial physical health screening protocols for newly arriving refugee youth, as early diag-nosis and treatment might reduce future disability and enhance rehabilitation….

A lifetime history of suicide attempt predisposes the individual to future suicide attempts and, eventually, death by suicide. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in the development and implementation of various effective interventions in populations with a recent suicide attempt. Evidence-based interventions in attempted suicide can be grouped under pharmacological treatments, psychosocial interven-tions, brief…

Prevention of mental disorders implies preventing their occurrence in non-affected individuals or reducing relapse frequency, symptom burden, and overall impact in affected patients and their families. This popular concept had its early moorings in the mental hygiene movement, called so because of its similarities with other hygienic practices that seek to establish a set of…

By now, it should be the case that most readers will be eager for a reminder that mattering is double edged and mattering is an exceptional positive resource. While much of the focus in this chapter has been on feelings of not mattering and how they relate to the will to die, positive feelings of…

The frustrated needs linked with feelings of not mattering include the need for con-nection with other people (see Flett et al., 2022). The link between feelings of not mattering and loneliness has documented in several studies (e.g., Flett et al., 2022; McComb et al., 2020), and we have emphasized the double jeopardy that exists when…