Are you interested in improving your knowledge around student mental health to facilitate working with all the diverse students in your classes and departments? As part of ongoing efforts to attend to student mental health at UP, and as part of UP’s participation in the JED Foundation’s Campus Mental Health Action Planning, we are developing…Continue Reading Getting Involved with the UP Academic Network for Mental Health
As we approach final exams, and wrap up an academic year’s worth of blogging on student mental health, many of us feel an accentuated sense of stress and anxiety. That is normal, and sometimes even healthy – stress, in reasonable quantities, is an adaptive response to improve motivation and performance. But many of us also…Continue Reading Cognitive Distortions and Irrational Beliefs: Students, Faculty, and Finals
For over fifty years the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA and their Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) have been administering surveys to incoming first-year college students at U.S. institutions of higher education. The questions they ask have evolved over time, but contain lots of interesting tidbits — ranging from the percentage of students…Continue Reading How Our Students Compare: Some Data on Mental Health
This post is an entry for Part III of the Mentally Healthy resource guide for UP faculty and academic staff working with students who might have mental health concerns. If your students had a chance to tell you what they think about how faculty and academic staff matter to student mental health, what might they say? During…Continue Reading What students want you to know about mental health
This post is an entry for Part II of the Mentally Healthy resource guide for UP faculty and academic staff working with students who might have mental health concerns. Many of us know the feeling: seeing that first-year student “fail” (sometimes meaning a C, but still…) their first exam, and having to suddenly confront their…Continue Reading Mentally Healthy: Failure (Deprivation) and Resilience?