Secondary schools Blog Posts

• Do school smartphone bans actually save schools money?

  10 Apr 2026

  • Wilfred Bates
  • and Emily Ostlund

  
• AWARE and INSPIRE: school mental health trials show mixed results and unexpected harms

  18 Jul 2025

  • Jo Anderson

  
• Smartphone bans in schools are not associated with better mental wellbeing or reduced screen-time out of school

  13 May 2025

  • Emma Sullivan

  
• Universal DBT intervention in schools: help or hindrance?

  11 Sep 2024

  • Sofiia Kornatska

  
• What’s BESST for young people? Efficacy of CBT-informed workshops for stress management in older adolescents

  15 May 2024

  • Matthias Schwannauer

  
• Mental health support teams in schools: an evaluation of the UK Trailblazer programme

  25 Sep 2023

  • Lucinda Powell

  
• Building bridges between schools and mental health services to improve youth mental health support

  14 Sep 2023

  • Ariadna Albajara Saenz

  
• What’s the link between neurodevelopmental or mental disorders and school absence or exclusion?

  10 Nov 2022

  • Chris Fielding

  
• Should schools use peer mentoring for mental health? New review highlights how little we know

  04 May 2022

  • Lucinda Powell

  
• What impact do secondary schools have on the mental health of young people?

  07 Feb 2022

  • Chris Fielding