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. Anyone paying attention to higher education in recent years is well aware of two pressing issues on regular repeat: changing perceptions of student mental health needs, and the…Continue Reading Intersections? How diversity, mental health, and teaching might mix
Even for faculty and academic staff paying careful attention to student mental health, it can be helpful to remind ourselves how things work at UP. So here is a quick primer (or, more hopefully, a reminder) about what is available through UP’s counseling services to students who seem to be struggling in our classes for…Continue Reading Who; What; Where; When; Why: A Quick Primer-Reminder on Mental Health Services for Students at UP
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. In Part I of this post I wrote about whether there is anything particular about student-athletes with mental health concerns compared with other students. The short answer is…Continue Reading Student Athlete Mental Health Part II: What do we do at UP?
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. Do student-athletes tend to have more mental health problems than the general student population, fewer mental health problems, or similar mental health problems? In the Spring of 2017,…Continue Reading Student Athlete Mental Health: Are Sports Special?
In recent weeks several major feature articles have perpetuated a growing trend to portray today’s students – particularly those in high school and college – as unusually fragile and disposed to mental health problems. First, in a September article in The Atlantic provocatively titled “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” psychologist Jean Twenge suggested we are…Continue Reading Kids These Days: The Media (and Social Media) on Student Mental Health