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Heads up policy briefings
HeadStart heads up briefing 6
Targeted interventions in HeadStart: how do HeadStart partnerships support the mental health of young people, and do they reach those in need?
6th June 2022
HeadStart heads up briefing 5
Gender differences, improving support, and talking about mental health: learning from the 2020 HeadStart conference
10th July 2020
HeadStart heads up briefing 4
Supporting young people at home: what helps young people with their mental health and wellbeing?
4th June 2020
HeadStart heads up briefing 3
How are systems change and sustainability being approached in HeadStart?
15th October 2019
HeadStart heads up briefing 2
What are HeadStart partnerships doing to support the mental health of children and young people aged 10 to 16?
17th June 2019
HeadStart heads up briefing 1
What are HeadStart interventions focusing on to improve mental health in 10 to 16-year-olds?
1st April 2019
HeadStart Evidence Briefings
HeadStart evidence briefing 14
Youth participation: models used to understand young people’s participation in school and community programmes
9 August 2022
HeadStart evidence briefing 13
Young people’s experiences of HeadStart: 2017–2021
28th June 2022
HeadStart evidence briefing 12
Learning from HeadStart: changes in perceived social support during early adolescence
19th October 2021
HeadStart evidence briefing 11
Learning from HeadStart: does a brief, school-based intervention aimed at building resilience help children with emerging mental health difficulties?
7th July 2021
HeadStart evidence briefing 10
Delivery of the HeadStart programme during the coronavirus pandemic: HeadStart staff perspectives
1st February 2021
HeadStart evidence briefing 9
HeadStart in schools: What do school staff members think?
15th December 2020
HeadStart evidence briefing 8
Learning from HeadStart: Does cross-age peer mentoring help young people with emerging mental health difficulties?
28th October 2020
HeadStart evidence briefing 7
Learning from HeadStart: the mental health and wellbeing of adolescent boys and girls
5th February 2020
HeadStart evidence briefing 6
Shining a light on risk and protective factors: young people’s experiences
24th January 2020
HeadStart evidence briefing 5
Whole school approaches to promoting mental health: what does the evidence say?
24th October 2019
HeadStart evidence briefing 4
Learning from HeadStart: does social action help young people with emerging mental health issues?
8th April 2019
HeadStart evidence briefing 3
Learning from HeadStart: the relationship between mental health and school attainment, attendance and exclusions in young people aged 11 to 14
5th February 2019
HeadStart evidence briefing 2
HeadStart Year 1: National Qualitative Evaluation Findings - Young People's Perspectives
14th May 2018
HeadStart evidence briefing 1
Mental health problems in young people, aged 11 to 14: results from the first HeadStart annual survey of 30,000 children
11th January 2018
Other resources
Conducting economic evaluations of mental health and wellbeing early intervention and prevention programmes: learning and insights from a real-world implementation context
This study was funded through the Children and Families Policy Research Unit by the National Institute for Health Research Policy Research Programme.
January 2022
Learning from HeadStart: the mental health and wellbeing of boys and girls aged 11 - 14
December 2020
Young people’s experiences during the coronavirus pandemic: views of young HeadStart volunteers
November 2020
What young people in HeadStart told us about: having difficulties and getting support (based on evidence briefing 6)
January 2020
What young people told us about: handling problems and difficult situations (based on evidence briefing 2)
February 2019
Staff perspectives on HeadStart delivery: challenges and solutions
September 2017
Journal Articles
Carmichael-Murphy, P., Demkowicz, O., & Humphrey, N. (2022). “At Risk” Adolescent Boys’ Engagement With an Employability Intervention: A Qualitative Exploration. Frontiers in Education, 7. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2022.924456
Lereya, S. T., Patalay, P., & Deighton, J. (2022). Predictors of mental health difficulties and subjective wellbeing in adolescents: A longitudinal study. JCPP Advances, e12074. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12074
Yoon, Y., Eisenstadt, M., Lereya, S.T., Deighton, J. (2022). Gender difference in the change of adolescents’ mental health and subjective wellbeing trajectories. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-01961-4
Stapley, E., Stock, S., Deighton, J. & Demkowicz, O. (2022). A qualitative study of how adolescents’ use of coping strategies and support varies in line with their experiences of adversity. Child Youth Care Forum. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-022-09682-0
Black, L., Panayiotou, M. & Humphrey, N. (2021). Internalizing symptoms, well-being, and correlates in adolescence: A multiverse exploration via cross-lagged panel network models. Development and Psychopathology, 1-15. doi:10.1017/S0954579421000225
Demkowicz, O., Panayiotou, M., & Humphrey, N. (2021) Cumulative risk exposure and emotional symptoms among early adolescent girls. BMC Women's Health 21, 388. doi: 10.1186/s12905-021-01527-7
O’Neill, A., Stapley, E., Stock, S., Merrick, H. & Humphrey, N. (2021). Adolescents' Understanding of What Causes Emotional Distress: A Qualitative Exploration in a Non-clinical Sample Using Ideal-Type Analysis. Front. Public Health, 24 May 2021.
Demkowicz, O., Ashworth, E., Mansfield, R., Stapley, E., Miles, H., Hayes, D., Burrell, K., Moore, A., & Deighton, J. Children and young people’s experiences of completing mental health and wellbeing measures for research: learning from two school-based pilot projects. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health 14, 35 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-020-00341-7
Humphrey, N. & Panayiotou, M. Bounce Back: randomised trial of a brief, school-based group intervention for children with emergent mental health difficulties. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry (2020). doi: 10.1007/s00787-020-01612-6
Black, L., Mansfield, R., & Panayiotou, M. (2020). Age Appropriateness of the Self-Report Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Assessment. doi: 10.1177/1073191120903382
Stapley, E., Demkowicz, O., Eisenstadt, M., Wolpert, M. & Deighton, J. (2019). Coping with the stresses of daily life in England: A qualitative study of self-care strategies and social and professional support in early adolescence. Journal of Adolescence doi: 10.1177/0272431619858420
Lereya, S. T., Patel, M., dos Santos, J.P.G.A., & Deighton, J. (2019). Mental health difficulties, attainment and attendance: a cross-sectional study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, doi: 10.1007/s00787-018-01273-6.
Deighton, J., Lereya, T. L., Casey, P., Patalay, P., Humphrey, N., & Wolpert, M. (2019). Prevalence of mental health problems in schools: poverty and other risk factors amongst 28,000 adolescents in England. British Journal of Psychiatry, doi: 10.1192/bjp.2019.19.
Black, L., Panayiotou, M., & Humphrey, N. (2019). The dimensionality and latent structure of mental health difficulties and wellbeing in early adolescence. PLOS One, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213018.
Lereya, S. T., Humphrey, N., Patalay, P., Wolpert, M., Böhnke, J. R., Macdougall A., & Deighton, J. (2016). The student resilience survey: psychometric validation and associations with mental health. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, doi: 10.1186/s13034-016-0132-5.
Blogs
Stapley, E. (2019). Analysing young people’s experiences of coping with problems, difficult situations and feelings: An evolving approach to analysing qualitative longitudinal evaluation data. (Big Qual Analysis Resource Hub).