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Social and emotional training in Swedish schools for the promotion of mental health: an effectiveness study of 5 years of intervention.

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Birgitta Kimber Rolf Sandell Sven Bremberg

Health Educ Res 2008 Dec 18;23(6):931-40. Epub 2008 Aug 18.

Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden.

The school is an obvious arena for interventions designed to promote mental health among children. A set of educational techniques named social and emotional learning, which focuses on students' self-control, social competence, empathy, motivation and self-awareness, has shown promising results in the United States. This is a study of the application of a similar method in Sweden (referred to as social and emotional training) for school years 2000/2001 through to 2004/2005. It is an effectiveness rather than an efficacy study, largely administered by school personnel, which relates duration of the training (1-5 years) to a set of outcomes previously found to be associated with mental health. Positive and significant effects were found on five of seven variables: internalizing problems, externalizing problems, mastery (reflecting self-efficacy or hopelessness), self-image and self-esteem and contentment in school. Effect sizes were medium. Somewhat surprisingly, no relationship was found between the intervention and the promotion of social skills. Nor was there any detectable long-term impact on bullying. Controlling for student gender did not moderate any of the effects.

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