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Innovations in Practice: ‘Go‐to’ Educator Training on the mental health competencies of educators in the secondary school setting: a program evaluation
Author(s) -
Wei Yifeng,
Kutcher Stan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
child and adolescent mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1475-3588
pISSN - 1475-357X
DOI - 10.1111/camh.12056
Subject(s) - mental health , psychology , intervention (counseling) , medical education , triage , identification (biology) , medicine , clinical psychology , psychiatry , botany , biology
Background Educators can play an important role in early identification and triage of youth with mental disorders. This paper reports findings of a program evaluation of the ‘Go‐To’ Educator Training in a secondary school setting. Methods Pre‐ and posttests were administered. Results Participant mean scores on mental health competencies changed from 12 (40%) (standard deviation [ SD ] = 4.3) pretraining to 21 (70%) ( SD = 3.3) posttraining, t (119) = 25.6, p < .0001, d = 2.3. Participant attitude mean scores improved from 49.9 ( SD = 4.6) pretraining, to 51.5 ( SD = 4.2), t (115) = 4.3, p < .0001, d = 0.36. Conclusions This training is a useful intervention to help educators identify youth with mental disorders and link them to appropriate services.