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SESAME ( Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support for Mental Health ) is a three-tiered system of support designed to create a safe learning environment for the whole school, in order to prevent the development of internalizing psychosocial disorders in students. SESAME is characterized in particular by the fact that evidence-based methods for assessment and intervention at different support tiers are linked together. The intensity of assessment and intervention depends on the needs of the students.
In the project Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support for Mental Health (SESAME) we adapt SW-PBS for psychosocial health in secondary schools in different European contexts. The SESAME model aims to provide a culturally sensitive and APP-supported prevention approach for different European contexts, which improves the psychosocial health of students, reduces the burden on educational staff and shapes the school system as an educational environment conducive to learning and development .
Schoolwide prevention approaches can demonstrably lead to an improvement in psychosocial health and support educational success and social participation . In this way, they also reduce the risk for teachers and other pedagogical staff to feel burdened by students’ mental health impairments. Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support (SW-PBS; Horner & Sugai, 2006) represents a school-wide prevention approach. SW-PBS is a conceptual framework that includes systemic and individual strategies for assessment and