Tuesday, June 24, 2025

All-Class Therapies

Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work Lucy Foulkes

And from the Guardian, no less!

 I have now reached the conclusion that we should stop these all-class mental-health lessons. My view is that the only information we should teach en masse is where a young person should get help, both inside and outside school, if they’re struggling. That’s it. Then we should focus the time, energy and money on supporting the smaller group of young people who are actually unwell. (Her research at the internal link.)

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