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Mental Health:
Considerations for Postsecondary
Educational Institutions
Dr. Mike Condra
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Outline
•Mental Health: Where are we…. and
•What has happened?
•Mental health on campus: Goals and …. suggestions
•“Special Topics”
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What is Mental Health?
A state of successful performance of mental functions, resulting in:
• Productive activities (e.g., work, academics)• Fulfilling relationships (e.g., friends, family)• Ability to adapt, change, and cope with adversity
We are content and we can deal with stresses
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What is Mental Illness?
A term used to describe a range of mental disorders affecting:
• Thinking (e.g., difficulty in concentrating, memory)
• Mood (e.g., feeling sad, lacking a sense of pleasure, loss of hope)
• Behaviour (e.g., restlessness, difficulty sleeping)
Associated with distressand impaired functioning
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NCHA findings
In the last year:Felt things were hopeless
2016 2013
University of Waterloo 61.5 55.8
Reference Group 59.6 53.8
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NCHA findings
2016 2013
University of Waterloo 89.8 87.8
Reference Group 89.5 89.3
In the last year:Felt overwhelmed by all you had to do
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NCHA findings
In the last year:Felt so depressed that it was difficult to function
2016 2013
University of Waterloo 44.5 38.9
Reference Group 44.4 37.5
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NCHA findings
In the last year:Seriously Considered Suicide
2016 2013
University of Waterloo 14 11.9
Reference Group 13 9.5
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WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
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Mental Health on campus: Goals and …… suggestions
An Informed and Healthy Community
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The Mental Health Continuum
Healthy
Normal
functioning
Mild
Disruption
Common and
reversible
distress
Moderate
Disruption
Significant
functional
impairment
Severe
Disruption
Clinical
Disorder.
Severe and
persistent
functional
impairment
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Supports and Resources
Healthy Mild
Disruption
Moderate
Disruption
Severe
Disruption
Professional
Care
Self-care and
social support
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What is Mental Illness?
• Mood (e.g., feeling sad, lacking a sense of pleasure, loss of hope)
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Depression
1. Lasts more than two weeks and is persistent
2. More disruptive:• Interferes with ability to work/study & have satisfying relationships
• Causes physical symptoms and affects thoughts, emotions, &
behaviours
3. Lack of precipitants or “triggers”
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What else do faculty/staff/student leaders want to know?
Behaviours of concern and what to doFOCUS ON:Specific behaviours
Signs of distressMarkedly unusual thinking/behaviourPerformance issuesProvocative/aggressive behaviourDisclosure of distressing experience
Development of effective, compassionate response
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• Behaviours of Concern Form
• Available at St. Lawrence Collage
• Click on MENTAL HEALTH – BEHAVIOURS OF CONCERN
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What else do faculty/staff/student leaders want to know?
CONSULTATION WITH
FACULTY/STAFF/STUDENT LEADERS
“If in any doubt, call”
“We like false positives”
Encourage behavioural description
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TAKE CARE OF YOUR “FIRST RESPONDERS”
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Mental Health on campus: Goals and …… suggestions
Encourage Helping and
Help-Seeking Behaviours
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TREAT SELF-DISCLOSURE
AS AN
ACT OF COURAGE
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Social Stigma
Stupid
Inadequate
Crazy
Scary
Incapable
Strange
Faker
Nut-Job Weak
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Self-Stigma
Embarrassment
Burden
Stupid
Inferior
Weak
Nut-job
Weird
Crazy
Scammer
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“THE EFFECT OF HUMAN KINDNESS AND FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION AND SUPPORT CANNOT BE
OVERVALUED”
Report of the Principal’s Commission on Mental Health NOVEMBER 2012
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Mental Health on campus: Goals and …… suggestions
Effective, Responsive
Care
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Care: Considerations and Principles
• Layered
• Peer support
• Counselling/Health – rapid access, needs-based, crisis-
responsive, short-term
• Access to specialty care
• Linkages to the community – vital
• Limits of services
• Policy support
• Voluntary and Involuntary withdrawal
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WE TEACH MINDFULNESS
Do we practice it, model it?
Speaking of mindfulness……..
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I saw a father in a coffee shop hand his young son a laptop to keep
him busy .
The father was reading a book titled:
"The Presence Process:
How to Be There in the Moment"
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SPECIAL TOPICS
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CHALLENGES OF ACCOMMODATIONRecent changes
Procedural and Substantive Fairness
Flexibility
Information for students/parents Student Handbook
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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
Elements of Adjustment
The Safety Net
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Instilling HOPE