This article presents findings from a meta-analysis which sought to determine the
effectiveness of interventions adopting a whole school approach to enhancing children and …

For the last five decades, science has managed to delineate the mechanisms by which
stress hormones can impact on the human brain. Receptors for glucocorticoids are found in …

Complex systems approaches to social intervention research are increasingly advocated.
However, there have been few attempts to consider how models of intervention science …

Classic theories of stress and health are largely based on assumptions regarding how
different psychosocial stressors influence biological processes that, in turn, affect human …

Objective To examine the effect of universal, school-based, resilience-focused interventions
on mental health problems in children and adolescents. Method Eligible studies were …

Adolescence is a life phase in which the opportunities for health are great and future
patterns of adult health are established. Health in adolescence is the result of interactions …

The purpose of this review is to further our knowledge about what is meant by inclusion in
research addressing the topic. While it is common to remark that inclusion is defined in …

This study expands upon the extant prior meta-analytic literature by exploring previously
theorised reasons for the failure of school-based, universal social and emotional learning …

This article presents findings from a meta‐analysis of 213 school‐based, universal social
and emotional learning (SEL) programs involving 270,034 kindergarten through high school …

Social Safety Theory hypothesizes that developing and maintaining friendly social bonds is
a fundamental organizing principle of human behavior and that threats to social safety are a …