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School Staff’s Perspectives on Social and Emotional Learning Programmes at their School

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There is a growing awareness on the need to promote positive mental health as well as prevent the development of mental health problems in children, as half of mental health difficulties develop before adulthood (National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2012). Schools have the privileged position to become vehicles for wellbeing and mental health as they have access to all children and young people (Bodisch Lynch, Geller, & Schmidt, 2004).

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Baldacchino, S. (2017). School Staff’s Perspectives on Social and Emotional Learning Programmes at their School. In: Cefai, C., Cooper, P. (eds) Mental Health Promotion in Schools. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-053-0_8

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