Abstract: Abstract Background While mental health challenges in the classroom have increased over the past several years, existing research suggests that many educators feel unprepared to broach the topics of mental health and mental illness with their students. This paper outlines the development and gathering of preliminary evidence of validity for two new scales designed to assess teachers’ confidence and worries related to delivering mental health content in the classroom. Methods Content evidence was collected through the use of two methods: a foc...
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Topics: 
Applied psychology
Clinical psychology
Social psychology