Building elementary students' social and emotional skills: A randomized control trial to evaluate a teacher-led intervention.

ABSTRACT: The Faith and Wellness: A Daily Mental Health Resource is a school-based, teacher-led social-emotional learning (SEL) intervention resource for elementary students. It is designed to address the challenges faced by existing SEL interventions, including lack of time, training, and resources. Using a randomized control trial design, this study evaluates short-term outcomes associated with the use of this resource. Participants were elementary teachers (N_T1 = 201, N_T2 = 129) and students (N_T1 = 242, N_T2 = 183; ages 4-14; 47.5% girls) from 19 Catholic school boards in [PROVINCE]. Using multi-level models, significant small to medium effect sizes indicated that intervention group teachers: taught SEL more frequently; had higher confidence in teaching

SUBMITTER: Al-Jbouri E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9438393 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature