Mental health and emotional wellbeing have come to dominate headlines in the past couple of years – a fact that has not escaped the business-minded among our communities who have looked to develop interventions that will “solve the problem” for us.
It is easy to be lured by the shiny things – the big promises and slick styling making it hard to say no.
But we should. Or we should at least say only a tentative “maybe”.
When we buy into products that are not evidence-informed we are, at best, potentially wasting money, and, at worst, putting our pupils at risk of harm. Easy for me to say with my research PhD, but how are you, a hard-working teacher who is already expected to be a font of academic knowledge, a pseudo-parent and therapist, supposed to take on the role of scientist too?
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