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Summary:
- "Good mental health is essential for students to manage the challenges that university life presents. This book offers pragmatic guidance to support academic and student services staff in engaging with this critical issue, both in terms of being proactive within their role to promote a positive approach to wellbing, and understanding how to care appropriately for students who may not be flourishing in the university environment."--Back cover.
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Table of Contents:
- The Context. Higher education in the twenty-first century : changes and challenges for mental wellbeing / Ruth Caleb and Nicola Barden
- The legal position : obligations and limits / Siân Jones-Davies
- Mental Health. Student mental health and the developing mind / Dominique Thompson
- The student lifecycle : pressure points and transitions / Denise Meyer
- Cultural approaches to mental health among migrating students / Antonio Ventriglio, Gurvinder Kalra and Dinesh Bhugra
- Policy and Practice. From strategy to policy and procedure : making mental health policies work / Ruth Caleb
- Academic and departmental support / Ann-Marie Houghton
- Professional support in higher education / Nic Streatfield
- Risk and crisis : managing the challenges / Nicola Barden
- Supporting staff : creating the conditions for confident support / Andrew Reeves
- Conclusion / Nicola Barden and Ruth Caleb.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Physical Description:
- xxiii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Call Numbers:
- LB2343 .S7972 2019
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ISBNs:
- 9781526421227 (pbk.)
1526421224 (pbk.)
9781526421210
1526421216
9781529700558 (ePub ebook) [Invalid]
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Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2019933233
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OCLC Numbers:
- 1102639448