Comprehensive mental health education support for students with possible developmental disabilities in mainstreaming classes

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590267
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Special needs education
• Research Institution: National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
• Principal Investigator: Kamio Yoko 国立研究開発法人国立精神・神経医療研究センター, 精神保健研究所 児童・思春期精神保健研究部, 部長 (00252445)
• Research Collaborator: Nonaka Syunsuke 国立精神・神経医療研究センター, 精神保健研究所・児童・思春期精神保健研究部, 科研費研究員 ; Nakanisi Yo 同志社大学, 心理学部, 特別研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 発達障害・情緒障害 / 通常学級 / 心の健康教育 / 不安 / 集団認知行動療法 / 自閉スペクトラム症

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Given that a risk for mental disorders is supposed for most of children for their life course, the importance of effective school mental health program has been recognized from preventative perspective. In the current study, we developed a group-based anxiety treatment program by modifying the existing program for typical developing children, and confirmed that they could successfully participate in whether when clinician delivered or school teacher did. At the same time, we found that when the school mental health program was delivered in the mainstreaming classes, children with high autistic traits and those with low autistic traits could receive different benefits. Finally, we reconstructed the program to target anxiety, depression, and aggression, and confirmed the feasibility in different educational settings. In addition, we identified the sensitive parameters that can be used in the future research where the efficacy of the program will be examined.

Free Research Field

特別支援教育、児童精神医学、臨床心理学