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The increase in mental health education and support at schools can only be a good thing, right? Turns out it might not be quite that simple: Research from recent years finds that a focus on mental health awareness can sometimes backfire for young people, the New York Times reports. In the UK and Australia, researchers looked at students who participated in mental health intervention programs at school that included training in mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy. Not only did they find those students were not any better off than students who didn’t tak…

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