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The science is settling - school mental health programs don't work, say Oxford researchers

Experimental psychology professors say universal school-based mental health interventions not supported by evidence, not worth the risk to justify further investment

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A Legal Process
Mar 04, 2025
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A pair of Oxford experimental psychology researchers have published a new report in the journal Child and Adolescent Mental Health that says what we all pretty much intuitively already know: universal school-based mental health interventions are not supported by the evidence.

Universal mental health programs, like those widely used in U.S. public schools…

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