TY - BOOK ED - Education Review Office | Te Tari Arotake Mātauranga TI - Someone to talk to : : evaluation of Counselling in Schools PY - 2024/// PB - Education Review Office, KW - CHILDREN KW - COUNSELLING KW - EDUCATION KW - EVALUATION KW - MENTAL HEALTH KW - SCHOOLS KW - WELLBEING KW - NEW ZEALAND N2 - Students’ mental health is strongly linked to their engagement, achievement, and school attendance. Counselling in Schools is an initiative which began in 2021 with the aim of providing evidence-based counselling support in primary, intermediate, and small secondary schools, to help young people thrive at school. The Education Review Office looked at the effectiveness of Counselling in Schools, how well it reached the students it is targeted at, the impact it had, and some lessons for counselling programmes in the future. We found that counselling improves students’ mental health, and we also saw some encouraging signs of improved learning and wellbeing more widely. (From the Executive summary). Record #8974 UR - https://evidence.ero.govt.nz/media/tbhlon4l/ero-counselling-series-findings-report.pdf UR - https://evidence.ero.govt.nz/documents/someone-to-talk-to-evaluation-of-counselling-in-schools ER -