Write a short story titled "Friends for
life"
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‘FRIENDS for Life’ is a school-based positive mental health programme that promotes
emotional resilience and reduces anxiety in children and adolescents. It is the only anxiety
prevention programme acknowledged by the World Health Organization for its 12 years of
comprehensive evaluation and practice (WHO, 2004). This research project set out to
explore if ‘FRIENDS for Life’ could be successful in reducing anxiety levels with young
people in Irish post-primary schools.
The findings from the research project demonstrated significant reductions in anxiety
levels following the ‘FRIENDS for Life’ programme. Positive gains in young people’s
emotional wellbeing, reported in previous Irish and international research, were confirmed
by students and their parents in both universal and small group settings in post-primary
schools geographically distributed across the Republic of Ireland.
Before the programme, 18.8% of the 244 students who participated in the project rated
themselves within the ‘elevated’ anxiety level (1 in every 5.3 students). This reduced to
10.2% of students (1 in every 9.8 students) following completion of the ‘FRIENDS for Life’
10 session programme. Continued improvement has been recorded following completion
of the two booster sessions four months later.
The qualitative and quantitative findings from the Teachers’ Reviews and the Fidelity
Checklists give further weight to these results. Twenty seven teachers representing the
fourteen project schools completed a Teachers’ Review following completion of the ten
session programme and all reported positive developments in the students including
improved self-confidence, an increased willingness to speak about feelings and becoming
more settled in school. Equally teachers stated that the programme had helped to
normalise feelings of anxiety for the students.
Although more time for preparation and delivery and the need to adapt and supplement
content emerged as the two common themes in the teachers’ Fidelity Checklists for
improving the implementation of the ‘FRIENDS for Life’ programme in the future, this did
not distract from the progress made with students on those activities that were the focus
of the sessions. While most of the teachers revealed that they experienced the ‘time’ and
‘content’ challenges in delivering the programme, the majority had enjoyed teaching the
‘FRIENDS for Life’ programme to their students. All teachers in the Teachers’ Review
stated that they would recommend the programme to other teachers and schools.