ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2022
Evaluating the effectiveness of a transdiagnostic universal prevention program for both internalizing and externalizing problems in children: two feasibility studies.
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- The World Health Organization's Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions: A Systematic Review on Current Evidence regarding Effectiveness and Implementation.Psychotherapy and psychosomatics · 2025Pooled it
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- Let's Learn About Emotions Program: Acceptability, Fidelity, and Students' Mental Well-Being Outcomes for Finnish Primary School Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Universal, school-based transdiagnostic interventions to promote mental health and emotional wellbeing: a systematic review.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Review
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- Randomized controlled trial for selective preventive transdiagnostic intervention for adolescents at risk for emotional disorders.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- Implementation of a Transdiagnostic Universal Prevention Program on Anxiety in Junior High School Students After School Closure During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2023Article
- Randomized controlled trial for selective preventive transdiagnostic intervention for adolescents at risk for emotional disorders.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- Cultural adaptation, content, and protocol of a feasibility study of school-based "Let's learn about emotions" intervention for Finnish primary school children.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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backgroundThe present study examined the effectiveness of the Universal Unified Prevention Program for Diverse Disorders (Up2-D2) for internalizing and externalizing problems for children aged 9-11 years.
methodsWe used two feasibility studies. The Up2-D2 entailed 12 sessions delivered by teachers; each session was developed based on cognitive-behavioral and positive psychological interventions. In Studies 1 and 2, 58 elementary school children aged 9-11 and 73 elementary school children aged 10-11 attended the Up2-D2. The teachers in Study 1 received 1.5 h of on-site teacher training for learning rationales for interventions, how to run the program, and received ongoing supervision by professionals with mental health expertise. In contrast, the teachers in Study 2 were given self-learning DVD materials in place of on-site training and ongoing supervision.
resultsMixed models revealed that general difficulties, which is total score of both internalizing and externalizing problems, decreased in Study 1 but not in Study 2. Additional analyses for children with subclinical general difficulties revealed that general difficulties, internalizing problems, and externalizing problems decreased in Study 1, whereas in Study 2, general difficulties and internalizing problems decreased, except for externalizing problems.
conclusionsThese results suggest that on-site teacher training and ongoing supervision are imperative for improving general difficulties in children at a universal level. In addition, universal preventive interventions by classroom teachers without on-site training and continuous supervision might be efficacious for reducing general difficulties and internalizing problems for children with subclinical difficulties.
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