The goals and objectives of the EMBRACE toolkit
• Provide a summary of the challenges in mental health and wellbeing confronted by higher education students, faculty, administrators, and policymakers around the world.
• Interrogate the issue of Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Provide an overview of existing knowledge and debates regarding student mental health and wellbeing
• Identify and promote a shared understanding of best practices that can enhance mental health and wellbeing on campuses across Europe. • Promote a holistic approach to healthcare and wellbeing that is flexible, adaptable, and responsive to student needs.
• Identify innovative intervention practices that can function as recourses for policymakers, student affairs professionals, university administrators, counseling centers, and other stakeholders.
• Enhance universities’ and colleges’ capacity throughout Europe to support student mental health and wellbeing throughout their campuses.
Desk research conducted by the EMBRACE HE team yielded findings from international empirical studies focusing on Higher Education Student (HES) mental health and wellbeing. The mental health and adjustment challenges that HES are confronting have been referred to as “a mental health crisis” (Chen, Stevens,......
Cornish, P. (2020). Stepped Care 2.0: a paradigm shift in Mental Health. Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-48055-4 Son C, Hegde S, Smith A, Wang X, Sasangohar F Effects of COVID-19 on College Students’ Mental Health in the United States: Interview Survey Study J Med Internet......
Mental health literacy (MHL) is defined as “knowledge and beliefs about mental health problems which aid their recognition, management or prevention” (Jorm et al., 1997, p. 182).MHL has several components, including the ability to recognise specific disorders, knowledge of causes, risk factors, and treatment, attitudes......
Peer support can be defined as help provided by and for people with similar problems or experiences, based on key principles of respect, shared responsibility, and a mutual agreement of what is helpful (Mead et al., 2001). Peer support programs could play a central role......
Embracing Higher Education Students’ Mental Health and Wellbeing The goals and objectives of the EMBRACE toolkit • Provide a summary of the challenges in mental health and wellbeing confronted by higher education students, faculty, administrators, and policymakers around the world. • Interrogate the issue of......
Faculty and HE staff have been identified in the relevant literature as potential gatekeepers who can help connect distressed students with available mental health services (Indelicato et al., 2011). However, members of the faculty and staff may not feel sufficiently prepared to offer their support......
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This toolkit includes a review of the challenges that HE students face and the practices that have been put in place to enhance mental health and wellbeing on campuses across Europe. HE students are facing mental health, learning, and financial challenges that negatively affect their......