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Multi-dimensional Family Therapy (MDFT)

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  • Topic: Promising practice - multi-systemic, evidence-based; spans subclinical and clinical care.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for family-based therapy for adolescent substance use and behavioural problems.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Mental Health and High School Curriculum Guide

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  • Topic: Promising practice - teacher-delivered (task-sharing), stigma reduction, gender-responsive.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for teacher-delivered mental health literacy in secondary schools.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Po.Mo.Zi.Da

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  • Topic: Promising practice (effectiveness evaluation underway) - strong policy backing, intersectoral design, teacher workforce training at national scale.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for national-scale teacher training in mental health literacy.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

The Daily Mile

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  • Topic: Promising practice - universal reach, very low-cost and highly transferable, teacher-led.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for low-cost, universal physical activity initiatives for wellbeing.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Be Real's BodyKind

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  • Topic: Promising practice - universal prevention, addresses body-image risk.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for positive body image promotion within school settings.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Well@School

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  • Topic: Promising practice - cross-national partnership, workforce training/task-sharing, transferable.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for cross-national partnerships that build school workforce mental health capacity.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM)

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  • Topic: Promising practice - youth participation by design, robust multi-country evaluation, transferable.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for youth-driven universal mental health promotion.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
  • Topic: Promising practice - task-sharing/peer model, stigma reduction, empowers peers as supporters.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for community-based training that extends mental health support into everyday settings.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Positive Behavioural Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS)
  • Topic: Promising practice - whole-school/systems approach, leadership and family engagement, sustained staff development.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for whole-school frameworks for supportive behavioural and emotional climates.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

ProfScreen — Professional Screening of At-Risk Pupils

ProfScreen – Professional Screening of at-risk pupils
  • Topic: Promising practice — early identification, targeted prevention, links schools to care.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for school-based screening of at-risk pupils.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Incredible Years (Teacher Programmes)

Incredible Years – Teacher Programs
  • Topic: Promising practice - teacher workforce training, evidence-based, transferable.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for teacher training that strengthens safe, enabling school environments.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Mental Health Clinical Liaison for Schools*

Mental Health Clinical Liaison Programme for Schools *
  • Topic: Innovative practice (*) - intersectoral education–health integration, early identification; evaluation/scale still developing.
  • Typology: Innovative practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for structural collaboration between education and mental health services.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

PROTECT*

PROTECT *
  • Topic: Innovative practice (*) — addresses emerging digital-use risk; targeted/indicated prevention; evaluation developing.
  • Typology: Innovative practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for indicated prevention for problematic media use among young people.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

My Time Without — The Challenge*

My Time Without - The Challenge *
  • Topic: Innovative practice (*) - digital/app-based, emerging-risk focus; formal evaluation developing.
  • Typology: Innovative practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for digital prevention of overlapping media, substance and gambling risk.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

PROMEHS

PROMEHS (Promoting Mental Health at Schools)
  • Topic: Promising practice - universal SEL, curriculum-integrated, transferable.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for curriculum-based, whole-population mental health promotion in schools.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Skills for Life — Zippy's Friends and Apple's Friends

Skills for Life (Zippy's & Apple's Friends)
  • Topic: Promising practice - early-years SEL, SEN-adapted components, transferable.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for early emotional-regulation and coping-skills development.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Lions Quest "Skills for Adolescence"

Lions Quest 'Skills for Adolescence' (LQSFA)
  • Topic: Promising practice - universal life-skills/SEL, teacher-delivered.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for life-skills and social-emotional learning for adolescents.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Stop & Think – SEE+

Stop & Think - SEE+
  • Topic: Promising practice - universal SEL, research-evaluated.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for observation-based approaches to social-emotional learning.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies)

PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies)
  • Topic: Promising practice - universal SEL, strong evidence base, gender-relevant effects.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for curricula building emotional knowledge and self-control.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

FRIENDS for Life

FRIENDS for Life
  • Topic: Promising practice - universal/targeted SEL, CBT-based, evidence-based.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for CBT-based anxiety prevention delivered through schools.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

IPSY — Information + Psychosocial Competence = Protection

IPSY (Information + Psychosocial Competence = Protection)
  • Topic: Promising practice - life-skills + substance-use prevention, EU best-practice listed.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for life-skills training combined with substance-use prevention.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Life Skills Training Programme

Life Skills Training Programme
  • Topic: Promising practice - strong evidence base, universal life-skills, transferable.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for evidence-based life-skills curricula for substance-use prevention.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Unplugged

Unplugged
  • Topic: Promising practice - robust multi-country evidence, structured adaptation protocol, youth-involved design.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for cross-national, youth-co-designed substance-use prevention.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Preventure

Preventure
  • Topic: Promising practice - targeted/personality-based, evidence-based.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for personality-targeted prevention of substance use and risk behaviours.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

KiVa

KiVa
  • Topic: Promising practice - strong evidence base, legislative backing, youth feedback loops, structured rollout support.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for whole-school anti-bullying programmes backed by legislative mandate.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Phare

Phare
  • Topic: Promising practice - national whole-school anti-bullying approach.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for national-scale bullying prevention.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP)

Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP)
  • Topic: Promising practice - whole-school, established evidence base, transferable.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for long-standing, evidence-based bullying-prevention models.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

@ease

@ease
  • Topic: Promising practice — low-threshold access, peer/youth involvement, hybrid delivery, addresses stigma.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for low-threshold, peer-supported walk-in mental health services.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

headspace (Denmark adaptation)

headspace (Denmark)
  • Topic: Promising practice - transferable service model, policy-embedded, youth participation, low-threshold.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for cross-national transfer of low-threshold youth mental health centres.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.

Maisons des Adolescents

Maisons des Adolescents
  • Topic: Promising practice - full-continuum integrated model, low-threshold, addresses fragmentation.
  • Typology: Good practice
  • Language: EN

Use it to…

Use it to help identify, adapt, and apply effective solutions for integrated, one-stop adolescent health and support centres.

Where to look in this resource

The whole document is relevant - it summarises the main characteristics of the practice.