Publications by authors named "Pert K"

Background: Provision that aims to promote the social, emotional, and mental wellbeing of children and young people (including their mental health) is increasingly implemented in education settings. As researchers, policymakers, and practitioners explore the complexities of promotion and prevention provision in practice, it is critical that we include and amplify children and young people's perspectives. In the current study, we explore children and young people's perceptions of the values, conditions, and foundations that underpin effective social, emotional, and mental wellbeing provision.

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Background: Children and young people experience various transitions throughout their education. Theory and evidence highlight that these can be complex, and poor experiences of transitions can be associated with worsened outcomes, necessitating a need to develop and implement wellbeing support. However, children and young people's views are lacking in the literature, and studies tend to focus on specific transitions rather than on what matters for wellbeing during transitions generally.

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This randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluated the efficacy of the Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies curriculum (PATHS; Kusche & Greenberg, 1994) as a means to improve children's social-emotional competence (assessed via the Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS); Gresham & Elliot, 2008) and mental health outcomes (assessed via the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ); Goodman, 1997). Forty-five schools in Greater Manchester, England, were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. Allocation was balanced by proportions of children eligible for free school meals and speaking English as an additional language via minimization.

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It was shown that auricular electro-acupuncture in rats, sufficient to induce analgesia, resulted in a significant increase of endorphins in cerebro-spinal fluid with a concomitant decrease in the basomedial hypothalamus and medial thalamus of beta-endorphin-like immunoreactivity as well as endorphin-like radioreceptor activity. In addition, the radioreceptor assay also revealed a decrease of endorphin-like radioreceptor activity in the periaqueductul gray matter. plasma levels of endorphins were not altered.

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