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How to Promote Student Mental Health
Help your students navigate mental wellbeing on- and off-campus with these free tools and podcasts
How often do your your students come to you with questions about their mental health? Make your classroom a comfortable place to have open conversations about mental health challenges and maintaining mental wellbeing with these insightful podcasts and effective course tools from two Sage authors.
Podcasts
Listen, review and subscribe on Apple, Google, Spotify, and Youtube
Podcast with Krisstal Clayton, PhD
Podcast with Dr. Dawn McBride
Tools for You and Your Students
Students: What can you do to nurture your mental health?
These on- and off-campus resources will help your students evaluate the state of their mental health—and where to go for assistance when they need it.
Instructors: What can you do to nurture your students’ mental health?
This list of action items can help you build an inclusive environment where students feel comfortable talking about mental health—and reaching out for help when they need it.
Assignment for your course: Bulleted Journal and Self-Reflection Assignment
This assignment will provide your students with a means for reflection about their daily practices, schedule, and how they “treat” themselves over the course of one week.
Resources for your students: Campus Resources for (Almost) Everything You Need
This list of campus resources can point your students in the right direction when they’re in need of help or support.
Learn more about our offerings by these authors:
Essentials of Psychology
By Saul M. Kassin, Gregory J. Privitera, and Krisstal D. Clayton
Psychology, 7e
By James S. Nairne and Dawn McBride
