Social Pathology and Prevention 2020, 6(1):11-19 | DOI: 10.25142/spp.2020.002

Promoting Emotional Well-Being Through School Mental Health Services

Taylor L. Milner1, Samuel Y. Song1
1 Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The  influence of emotion on thoughts, memories, behaviors and everyday decisions is currently being researched across multiple disciplines of psychology. Children and adolescents are not born with the skills needed to regulate their emotions; these skills are something learned over time. However, some children are never properly taught these skills, which can cause difficulties in the school environment because they are more likely to experience problems both academically and behaviorally. This paper explores the possible benefits of offering mental health services in schools that are focused towards promoting emotional health while also developing emotional regulation skills for children. Beginning with the ways in which children learn to express their emotions and the factors that contribute to an inability to express emotion appropriately, to the influence of emotions on academic performance, how emotional regulation skills can benefit academic success, how we can best build these emotional regulation skills in the school setting, discussion of Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT) which is an example of a service that could be used, the importance of parental involvement when offering these types of services and concluding with possible obstacles that could interfere with the effectiveness of these services in the school setting

Keywords: emotional regulation, school mental health, youth mental health, well-being, affect, Emotional Regulation Therapy (ERT)

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Milner TL, Song SY. Promoting Emotional Well-Being Through School Mental Health Services. Social Pathology and Prevention. 2020;6(1):11-19. doi: 10.25142/spp.2020.002.
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