References

• Hayes, D., Deniz, E., Nisbet, K., Thompson, A., March, A., Mason, C., … Deighton, J. (2025). Universal, school‑based interventions to improve emotional outcomes in children and young people: A systematic review and meta‑analysis. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 4, Article 1526840. This meta-analysis encompassing 71 studies (63,041 participants) demonstrated that universal, school‑based interventions (especially those grounded in cognitive-behavioral theory) produce modest but significant reductions in anxiety (d = –0.0858) and depression (d = –0.109) in youth
• Fu, C., Chien, W. T., Zhang, Y., Lam, K. K., & colleagues. (2025). Strength‑based capacity‑building interventions to promote adolescents’ mental health: A systematic review and meta‑analysis. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. This systematic review of 27 studies found that capacity-building interventions significantly improved mental health literacy (SMD = 1.70) and resilience (short-term SMD = 0.51; long‑term SMD = 0.29) in adolescents—highlighting the benefits of strength-focused, literacy-building approaches.
• Seidel, D. H., & colleagues. (2024). Systemic therapy in children and adolescents with mental disorders: A systematic review. BMC Psychiatry. This review provided comparative insights into systemic therapy (ST) versus cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) across several disorder classes in youth—revealing indications of greater benefit for ST (or ST added to CBT) in cases such as substance-related disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), though findings varied by diagnostic category.