Mental health project aimed at pupils [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 29 May 2010
THE power of positive thinking is to be used in a project to see if improving the nation’s mental health and saving lives from being lost to suicide can be achieved by spreading the message to children in primary schools.
As part of her research for a PhD at University College Cork, Mary Spillane Buckley hopes 700 pupils aged nine and 11 can be taught how to cope with stressful situations and to see the glass as half full rather than half empty when things go against them. But as well as aiming to find out the benefits of positive mental health, the project could also raise vital funding to educate children in one of the world’s poorest countries.
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