Delivering A Digital Mental Health Service in Australian Secondary Schools: Understanding School Counsellors’ and Parents’ Experiences

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dc.contributor.authorO’Dea, Bridianne
dc.contributor.authorKing, Catherine
dc.contributor.authorAchilles, Melinda Rose
dc.contributor.authorCalear, Alison
dc.contributor.authorSubotic-Kerry, Mirjana
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-01T22:22:37Z
dc.date.available2022-11-01T22:22:37Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2021-11-28T07:25:58Z
dc.description.abstractThis study examined school counsellors’ and parents’ experiences of a school-based digital mental health service (Smooth Sailing) that screened students’ mental health and provided automated psychological care. The Smooth Sailing service was offered to 4 secondary schools in New South Wales, Australia, for a 6-week trial period with 59 students taking part. The participating school counsellors (n = 4) completed a semi-structured interview to explore their experiences. Parents of students who had consented to being contacted (n = 37/59) were invited to complete an anonymous online survey about their child’s participation. Six parents completed the survey. The school counsellors expressed overall support for the service and cited the ease of service use, its ability to identify students at-risk, and the provision of psychoeducation to students as clear benefits. They identified some barriers to the service, such as parental consent and suggested strategies to improve uptake and engagement, such as incentives, more frequent screening and use with older students. Parents also reported positive experiences with the service, expressing appreciation for mental health screening in schools and a new system to connect them and their child to school counselling services. Taken together, these findings provide initial support for delivering the Smooth Sailing service in secondary schools. Trial registration: This trial was registered with the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry (ACTRN12617000977370).en_AU
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dc.identifier.issn1178-6329en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/277916
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenanceCreative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).en_AU
dc.publisherSage Publications Incen_AU
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2021en_AU
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Licenseen_AU
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en_AU
dc.sourceHealth Services Insightsen_AU
dc.subjectAdolescent health servicesen_AU
dc.subjectmental health servicesen_AU
dc.subjectschool health servicesen_AU
dc.subjectinterneten_AU
dc.subjectcounsellorsen_AU
dc.subjectparentsen_AU
dc.titleDelivering A Digital Mental Health Service in Australian Secondary Schools: Understanding School Counsellors’ and Parents’ Experiencesen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage9en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationO’Dea, Bridianne, Black Dog Instituteen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationKing, Catherine, Black Dog Instituteen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationAchilles , Melinda Rose , Black Dog Instituteen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationCalear, Alison, College of Health and Medicine, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationSubotic-Kerry, Mirjana, Black Dog Institute, University of New South Walesen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu4245801@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidCalear, Alison, u4245801en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
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local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB19510en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume14en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1177/11786329211017689en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85105995437
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://journals.sagepub.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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