{"id":30,"date":"2018-09-14T08:59:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T07:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/?p=30"},"modified":"2019-04-15T16:41:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:41:25","slug":"commpsysmh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/commpsysmh\/","title":{"rendered":"Community psychology perspectives on student mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>By <a href=\"https:\/\/people.uwe.ac.uk\/Person\/Miles2Thompson\">Miles Thompson<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communitypsychologyfestival\">4th UK Community Psychology Festival<\/a>\u00a0is being held on the 23rd and 24th of September 2018 in the Hertford Theatre, Hertford. It follows the success of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.uwe.ac.uk\/hls\/research\/socialscienceresearchgroup\/communitypsychologyfestival.aspx\">3rd festival<\/a>, which was held at the Arnolfini in Bristol and was joint hosted by UWE\u2019s Social Science Research Group.<\/p>\n<p>Three members of UWE\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.uwe.ac.uk\/hls\/research\/psychologicalsciencesgroup.aspx\">Psychological Sciences Research Group<\/a>\u00a0are curating a slot at festival number 4 titled:\u00a0<strong>Community psychology perspectives on student mental health<\/strong>. In the festival spirit they want their session to be as interactive as possible and are asking all festival goers to participate in their session \u2013 before it takes place \u2013 whether they are able to attend the actual session or not. In short they invite people to read the extract below from their festival abstract and respond:<\/p>\n<p><em>Mental health problems for students in UK higher education are receiving increased attention. Since 2008, some universities have experienced a threefold increase in demand for student support services. Student suicide has also been on the increase. A new document by Universities UK called \u201cStep Change\u201d has started to shape policy in this area.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You are a psychologist \u2013 interested in community psychology \u2013 teaching at a UK university. The university has concerns about growing student mental health issues. It is keen to tackle the problem by offering 1st year students a series of \u201cresilience workshops\u201d that focus on individual emotional regulation skills. What community psychology perspectives, evidence and even interventions might you suggest to complement or even replace the current suggestion?<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, we invite festival goers to respond in advance of the session by either:<br \/>\nPosting a comment at the end of this blog post<br \/>\nTweeting a response using the hashtag #commpsySMH<br \/>\nOr e-mailing: <a href=\"mailto:miles2.thompson@uwe.ac.uk?Subject=commpsySMH\">miles2.thompson@uwe.ac.uk<\/a> with their response.<\/p>\n<p>We plan to spend the timetabled session considering both the responses to the scenario above and wondering together about how UK community psychology might contribute more widely to this area.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, please respond to the above scenario before the actual session whether or not you are able to attend it. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Miles Thompson The 4th UK Community Psychology Festival\u00a0is being held on the 23rd and 24th of September 2018 in the Hertford Theatre, Hertford. It follows the success of the 3rd festival, which was held at the Arnolfini in Bristol and was joint hosted by UWE\u2019s Social Science Research Group. Three members of UWE\u2019s Psychological &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/commpsysmh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Community psychology perspectives on student mental health&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[27,6,9,8,26,38],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-promoting-psychological-health","category-research","tag-community-psychology","tag-mental-health","tag-psychology","tag-research","tag-resilience","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/psychological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}