Commentary discusses implications of school climate on mental health and health inequalities in young people.
In a contribution to this year's Annual Research Review, Graham Moore (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2026) presents a thought-provoking consideration of school climate. Highlighting the contestations in this concept, he describes how school climate might (or might not) impact child and adolescent mental health; how interventions to improve school climate might (or might not) improve child and adolescent mental health; and how school climate, and interventions to improve school climate, relate to health inequalities in young people. Moore's review generates several possibilities and opportunities, several of which are discussed below.
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