News and Publications

Find our publications and results of the project. Here you can read about news, scientific publications, policy recommendations, manuals, and reports.

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Resources: RWS webinar and online workshop presentations

On 21 March 2022, RefugeesWellSchool hosted an all-day conference and workshop to discuss the RWS study findings and provide practical information on the various psycho-social interventions carried out. Here you find some of the presentations that RWS researchers gave during the webinar and online workshops. These presentations offer some resources to understand the nature and […]
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Research article: The effectiveness of INSETT and PIER among Finnish-born and migrant adolescents in Finland

The RWS consortium is proud to present some of the first results published about the effectiveness of some our interventions. RWS researchers worked dedicatedly to understand the impact of the INSETT and PIER psychosocial preventive interventions on the mental health of native, refugee and migrant students. In this article, we focus on effectiveness specifically in […]
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Research article: Migrant students’ sense of school belonging and the COVID-19 pandemic

The pandemic has interrupted many of the RWS interventions as implementation was ongoing when schools closed in order to contain the spread of COVID-19. While school closures posed many challenges for continuing with the interventions in schools, it also alerted us that there were now equally important other questions to seek responses to considering migrant […]
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Scientific publications – Full list

Throughout the project, RWS researchers have published their scientific work in international peer-reviewed scientific journals and books. The publications address the topics of migrant and refugee adolescents’ mental health, the role of teachers and schools in supporting wellbeing, the impact of COVID-19, and research methodological questions of the RWS study. See the full list of […]
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Research article: Social determinants of the mental health of young migrants

One of the aim of RWS is to have a nuanced picture on migrant adolescents’ mental health, focusing on what role social factors have in shaping wellbeing in adolescence. In this article RWS researchers studied three adolescent groups: newcomer migrants, non-newcomer migrants and non-migrants. We found that these groups have different mental health profile.* Want […]
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Research article: Study protocol of RWS interventions in Finnish schools

RWS implements five interventions that aim to promote mental health among migrant and refugee youth in six countries’ school settings. In Finland RWS implemented the In-Service Teacher Training (INSETT) programme coupled with Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT) and the Peer Integration and Enhancement Resource intervention. In this study protocol you can read about how the project […]
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Manuals

RWS developed, implemented and evaluated five preventive, school-based interventions to promote the mental health of migrant and refugee youth in secondary schools in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. Every intervention had a manual to support and guide the work of those who wished to implement these programmes. We are thankful to the […]
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Newsletters

RefugeesWellSchool publishes biannual newsletters where you can read about the latest developments of the project. We announce events, resources, publications and many more there. You can subscribe to our newsletter here. You can also access the newsletters in the following links: Newsletter 3 Newsletter 2 Newsletter 1
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Effectiveness Report

We are very glad to share with you the RefugeesWellSchool report: Findings on how school-based interventions promote migrant and refugee adolescents’ well-being. The report shows the main findings of the RWS cross-national study that implemented five school-based preventive interventions – Welcome to School (WTS), Classroom Drama Workshops (CDW), Peer Integration and Enhancement Resource (PIER), In-Service […]
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Implementation Protocols

RWS developed, implemented and evaluated five preventive, school-based interventions to promote the mental health of migrant and refugee youth in secondary schools in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. For each intervention, RWS researchers developed an implementation protocol that took into account the contextual features of the RWS study, as well as the […]
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Research article: Mental health of Refugee and Non-Refugee Migrant adolescents in schools in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

One of the aims of the RefugeesWellSchool project is to better understand the mental health profiles of migrant and refugee adolescents in secondary schools in Europe. In this article, the RWS team focused on the cases of Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The team asked what role family separation, daily material stress and perceived […]
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Research article: The role of schools and teachers in promoting the mental wellbeing of refugee youth in Sweden

RWS has conducted focus group interviews with teachers in schools, and asked several questions around the mental health of refugee and migrant adolescents, and how schools promote wellbeing. The Swedish team explored the roles and challenges that teachers attributed to promoting mental health in Swedish schools. Results indicate that while teachers note the importance of […]

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