Learning from turbulent, real-world practice: Insights from a whole-school mental health promotion project

Advances in School Mental Health Promotion

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 5-16

  Omstead, Darlene ^a   Canales, Claudia ^a   Perry, Rosemary ^a   Dutton, Ken ^b   Morrison, Catherine ^b   Hawe, Penelope ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CALGARY HEALTH REGION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intervention; Mental health promotion; Mindset; School context; Whole school change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906068565     PISSN: 1754730X     EISSN: 20498535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1754730X.2009.9715700     Document Type: Article

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