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. 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?

Student Athlete Mental Health: Are Sports Special?

a basketball hoop seen from below and behind

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?

Best Practices in College Student Mental Health: What The Jed Foundation Might Offer

the quad at UP, students walking across campus

In the midst of growing national attention to mental health several organizations have started providing resources and programming specific to the target demographic most relevant to our work as UP faculty: college students. One particularly prominent organization in this realm is The Jed Foundation, started in 2000 by a philanthropist couple who lost their son…Continue Reading Best Practices in College Student Mental Health: What The Jed Foundation Might Offer