Education Now | Mental Health and Wellness at College Today

This episode will certainly concentrate on college and the psychological health and also health difficulties that colleges are dealing with– and also what student assistance must look like currently, as pandemic effects proceed.

Universities and universities are encountering a crisis in psychological health and wellness today– with virtually 40 percent of college students experiencing anxiety, according to a 2020 study, 34 percent reporting anxiousness, as well as 13 percent claiming they had actually assumed seriously concerning self-destruction in the in 2014. The pandemic aggravated the crisis, but there are other variables driving the surge.

Join us as we talk with two seasoned mental health and wellness leaders from huge college schools. We’ll ask what they’re seeing this year, what universities are doing to take care of the surge sought after for solutions, and what developments they’ve accepted to satisfy students where they are. We’ll discover what universities can do to create atmospheres that maintain as well as focus on health and wellness and wellness– and also how can they set up the resources, team, and also administrative structure needed to make it happen.

Host: Francesca Purcell, Senior Lecturer on Education as well as Faculty Director, Higher Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Audio speakers:
– Ernesto Escoto, Director as well as Clinical Associate Professor, Counseling and Wellness Center, University of Florida (UF).
– Nicole Green, Ed.M.’ 99, Executive Director, Counselin.

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