title: Mental health interventions in schools 1: Mental health interventions in schools in high-income countries.
abstract: Mental health services embedded within school systems can create a continuum of integrative care that improves both mental health and educational attainment for children. To strengthen this continuum, and for optimum child development, a reconfiguration of education and mental health systems to aid implementation of evidence-based practice might be needed. Integrative strategies that combine classroom-level and student-level interventions have much potential. A robust research agenda is needed that focuses on system-level implementation and maintenance of interventions over time. Both ethical and scientific justifications exist for integration of mental health and education: integration democratises access to services and, if coupled with use of evidence-based practices, can promote the healthy development of children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Mina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fazel
authors.affiliation: Department of Child Psychiatry, New York University Langone Medical Center and School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Kimberly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hoagwood
authors.affiliation: Center for School Mental Health, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stephan
authors.affiliation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Exeter Medical School, Veysey Building, Exeter, Devon, UK.
authors.forename: Tamsin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ford