Yesterday in Science journal the Editorial written by chief executive officer emeritus Prof Alan I. Leshner, was published. Entitled as "Target student mental well-being", Science 371 (6527), 325. DOI: 10.1126/science.abg5770 (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6527/325).
The article is quite interesting, quite worrying, and also inspiring, not just for students but for all stakeholders in higher education (i.e., policy makers, financiers, managements, academics and teaching staff, students and their parents). I kindly ask you to read the article, its quite short, only one page in two columns and tell me what is the status student’s mental well-being in your university, faculty, college? Is it some kind of mental distress of students noticed in your institution? If yes, what is the rate? And; Do we really realize our mission of developing the whole student as complete person? Thank you.
This is our research about mental health among Jordanian medical students.
Article Wellbeing and mental health amongst medical students in Jord...
Thank you, Professor Khamees,
It is a very nice paper and situation in Jordan among the medical students with a mental health problems caused by burnout corresponds with the usual status in many different countries. However, may I ask you have you got some action plan about student's mental well-being and if yes who and how provides it? Thank you.
Dear colleague Aledeh, I checked your RG profile, and I've noticed that your research interest is related with this question. So, what are your experiences about mental well-being of students and what's the situation in Austria? Can you talk about that?
I think that the mental well-being of students is the most ignored among all age groups. They may be facing academic-burnouts, stressors and anxieties.
In our organization, we conduct regular counselling sessions for students who approach us and group therapies for all students to make sure they understand they are not alone, build better interpersonal relationships and become compassionate individuals.
I work in secondary schools and I see the mental wellbeing issue beginning in the later years of secondary education. This issue needs to be address at this stage so that by College and University most 17 and 18 year old people have a good command of their self leadership skills. Society is not helping us with this either. Parental behaviour is sometimes shocking to me. We need to start this work earlier.
I run workshops for teens and a full year course for teens which addresses these issues. Just not enough teens participate in the course. We need to go beyond mindfulness for this one.
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