Social and Emotional Learningand Well-Being at school

Question 1

In 5-15 year olds, how many children had mental health disorder?

Answer 1

1 in 9 children

Question 2

1 in how many young women have some form of mental illness?

Answer 2

1 in 4

Question 3

Do boys or girls have more difficulty in primary school years?

Answer 3

Boys, mental disorders

Question 4

11-16 years old, boys and girls are equal, but 17-19 years old, _____ have more mental disorders

Answer 4

Girls

Question 5

Mental health and wellbeing is intimately connected with _____ ____________ and also academic engagement and achievement outcomes

Answer 5

Social relationships

Question 6

A majority of kids can occupy the _____ status over several years

Answer 6

Rejected

Question 7

What is the Social Information Processing Model?

Answer 7

An ongoing dynamic of how we process information, that can account for various differences in social adjustment

Question 8

Give an example of an encoding bias?

Answer 8

Looking for a threat, can miss out on other opportunities

Question 9

What did Barret et al find about families exacerbating cognitive biases?

Answer 9

Percentage of anxious children selecting avoidant solutions was 30% before family discussion, but 68% after family discussion, but for a non-clinic comparison, the family discussion decreased the number of children choosing avoidant solutions

Question 10

What did Barret et al also find about ODD children?

Answer 10

35% selected aggressive solutions before family discussion, and 80% selected aggressive solution after family discussion, but went down for non-clinic comparisons

Question 11

What were CASEL’s five SEL competencies?

Answer 11

1) Self-management
2) Self-awareness
3) Social awareness
4) Relationship skills
5) Responsible decision-making

Question 12

Why cant it be left up to the parents?

Answer 12

Because they could be making it worse, and could be part of the problem, so schools do have a role

Question 13

Emotion, Behaviour, Cognition, Motivation and Relationships, whats the issue with these domains?

Answer 13

There isn’t one single measure, and everyone has different perspectives

Question 14

What did Mathieson & Banerjee (2010) find about Emotional recognition and labelling in children aged 2-3?

Answer 14

Children varied in their understanding between sad, happy and cross, and this was connected with how nursery staff rated children on an interactive peer play questionnaire, and that children who showed more positive characteristics in play e.g. sharing toys, helping other children etc, also had superior knowledge

Question 15

What did Caputi et al (2012) find about children who had Theory of Mind at age 5?

Answer 15

They had more prosocial behaviour at age 6, and more peer acceptance and less peer rejection at age 7, and better academic achievement at age 8

Question 16

What did Banerjee et al. (2011) find about children who experienced early peer rejection?

Answer 16

They had difficulties with social understanding, and this led to more peer rejection, which is a bi-directional negative spiral

Question 17

When 91 children aged 9-10 years old were given a conversations as a basis for social understanding training programme, what was found about their theory of mind?

Answer 17

There were differences in their theory of mind after this intervention, when compared to those who received the control training programme

Question 18

Name 3 things that school based SEL programmes show significant improvements in?

Answer 18

1) Social and emotional skills
2) Classroom behaviour
3) Conduct problems

Question 19

What does SAFE stand for?

Answer 19

Sequenced, Active, Focused, Explicit

Question 20

Why is there a myth about mental health taking away time for academic time?

Answer 20

Because they go together

Question 21

The Ecological Model of the School Environment, tries to explain what about indirect effects on children?

Answer 21

That children exist and interact within multi-faceted ecologies, even if we dont see them happening directly e.g. parents workplace causes stress, this has a knock on effect on the child even though the child hasn’t stepped foot into the workplace

Question 22

Name 2 key points from Banerjee et al (2016) well being programmes

Answer 22

1) Some pupils benefit from target work, but this should not replace or detract from universal provision
2) Even programmes with very strong evidence may not have reliable outcomes when rolled out over a large number of schools

Question 23

Why did the national evaluation of Secondary SEAL show null results?

Answer 23

Because the comparison of SEAL and non-SEAL schools may have not been valid, and what was actually being measured, need to consider variations in how initiatives are taken forward in schools

Question 24

Whilst some schools weave it into the curriculum, others try to what?

Answer 24

Integrate it into how every teacher interacts, what happens in every lesson etc

Question 25

Having a whole-school universal approach to SEAL, led to what 3 positive outcomes?

Answer 25

1) Higher attainment results
2) Positive social experiences
3) Lower persistent absence

Question 26

Schools struggling with results dont have time to implement this SEAL approach, why is this problematic?

Answer 26

Because they are the ones that will benefit the most