How much of the stress students (and faculty and staff) feel during finals is rational? How much might it help our collective mental health to identify the points where our stress is irrational? The last in the year-long series on mental health on the Teaching & Learning Community Blog offers some ideas from the types of cognitive-behavioral techniques used in self-help programs to suggest ways we can all get a little perspective on the stress of final exams.
For more information contact Andrew Guest, psychological sciences, at guesta@up.edu.