EPSE 552 | Intervention & Mental Health Promotion in Schools

Critical investigation of issues relevant to social-emotional functioning and mental health and wellbeing for students in schools within a context of health-promotion, prevention, and intervention. Students will gain knowledge and skills relevant to the identification, translation, design, implementation, and evaluation of universal, targeted and intensive interventions and primary, secondary and tertiary prevention activities that support and promote student mental health and wellbeing. The course will focus on current research and professional literature relevant to the application of empirically validated intervention and prevention procedures, including methods of knowledge translation, program design, implementation science and evaluation.