Effectiveness

• Ease of use

  • easy to use
  • doesnt require extra resources or special trainers
  • teachers are already trained with these skills,no extra workload
  • teachers find is appealing,more likely to embrace it,increasing success
• Evidence of effectiveness

  • compared CAPSULE with a standard school psychiatric consultation and a control group(no intervention)
  • 1345 aged 8-10 in 9 primary schools
  • After 2 years,CAPSULE shown reduced levels of bullying and decrease in disruptive classrooms.
  • results were still the same in a 1 year follow up study
  • Another study shown CAPSULE improved academic performance after 2 years
• Limitations

  • decrease in bullying was accompanied by a small decrease in empathy.
  • Its only a small improvement compared to the standard intervention
  • programmes effectiveness depends how faithfully its followed