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Abstract: 

Almost 50 years ago, the Rolling Stones released “Paint It Black” (1966), a song whose lyrics describing the feelings of depression still resonate with youth today. School professionals have the skills to help prevent youth from experiencing feelings associated with depression. Additionally, school employees have the ability to provide effective interventions for youth who are struggling with these feelings. This article provides a snapshot of the evidence-based interventions that school professionals should consider incorporating into their systems of support for students’ mental health. It reviews universal, targeted, strategic, and crisis interventions as well as interventions that are still gaining empirical support, and it discusses future directions for research in the area of evidence-based interventions for the prevention of depression.

Keywords: Depression in youth, evidence-based interventions, school mental health

Affiliations:  1: Indiana University of Pennsylvania; 2: Indiana University of Pennsylvania.