Flourishing Student - 2nd edition

Flourishing Student - 2nd edition

A practical guide to promote mental fitness, wellbeing and resilience in Higher Education

Vailes, Fabienne; Hill, Professor Jenny

Practical Inspiration Publishing

04/2022

258

Mole

Inglês

9781788603331

15 a 20 dias

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Welcome to The Flourishing Student

What is the aim of this book?

Why a book on mental health?

Why a book on HE in particular?

What is this book about?

Who is this book for?

How to use this book

PART I - GAINING UNDERSTANDING AND CLARITY

Chapter 1 - Setting the scene - The current state of student mental health in the UK's Higher Education

The general picture

What about student health?

Why are students reporting getting increasingly stressed?

The issues with our language uses of the words 'mental health'

Mental health - a definition

The confusing impact of multiple negative modifiers

Why so much negativity?

The language we use matters

The danger of labelling oneself and others

The difference between behaviour and identity

Becoming aware of the stigma around mental health

The rise of mental health awareness

Wellbeing and the rise of the concept of embedding wellbeing in the curriculum

Chapter 2 - Time for clarity and understanding - a real need for mental health literacy

The different stages of mental health and why it matters

What's the difference between a disorder and a normal stress response?

Clarification - for whom are the interventions in this book suggested?

The stress response - what happens in our body

The stress response - an issue in the 21st century?

Why stress is good for us

The stress vulnerability model

The stress bucket

Factors of influence on mental health - biological (genetics) and environmental (epigenetics), cultural and social

The good news - neuroplasticity - our capacity for change

What does it mean for the HE sector?

Important final points to consider

PART II - THE IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION

Chapter 3 - Time for a new model?

Emotional, cognitive, physical, social, spiritual health - always kept separate

What if they are all a 'continuum' - Corey Keyes's model as an exemplar

The mental health continuum: from languishing to flourishing in life

What is a flourishing student versus a languishing individual?

WHO's definition of health and link with the new concept of 'flourishing student'

Chapter 4 - A new model based on students' stories

The flourishing student model

The university as a garden

The environment

The roots

The stem

Life and academic skills

The head of the flower

Emotional health

Cognitive health

Physical health

Social health

Spiritual health

Openness

Curiosity

Flexibility

Resilience

Language

How we communicate

PART III - THE TUTOR'S OWN TOOLBOX

Chapter 5 - It all starts with you - the flourishing tutor

How is your mental/physical/social/emotional/spiritual health doing?

Your role - not in isolation but part of a whole

How to create a community instead of an 'institution' which fosters resilience, diversity and student voices

Chapter 6 - Your skills

Listening skills and empathy

Time

Confidentiality

Know your limits - what to say, not to say

Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries - do you know where to refer your students?

Guiding rather than leading

Can you recognize what is going on with your tutees?

Chapter 7 - How to bridge the student's skill gaps

Conscious incompetence versus unconscious competence

How to bridge the gap between knowledge

Letting go of our own labels/bias - how do you define students' success?

The 5 elements that foster wellbeing

Chapter 8 What next?

Understanding

Awareness

A toolbox

The need for a systemic approach

Mental Health charter and whole university approach

A potential model? Appreciative Inquiry

From one colleague to another

Sharing with others

References

Index
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Wellbeing;resilience;higher education;young people;stress;anxiety;mental health