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Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Students / student organizations
You can take control of your well-being and mental health. Student
life can be overwhelming, with so many issues to deal with
including living away from home, workload, deadlines and exams,
family pressures and challenging relationships. It is not
surprising that you might struggle to cope sometimes. But there are
simple and effective ways that you can take ownership of your
mental health, meaning you stay stress free, enjoy your university
experience and achieve academic success. This book guides you
through your student journey from preparing to go to college or
university, managing the academic pressures, finding a job, and
everything in-between. Relevant scenarios are presented, linked to
a series of topics that explore the challenges you might
experience, along with self-enquiry reflections which help you to
apply the theory to your own experience and key take-aways. The
approaches and strategies outlined will help you improve your
academic performance, enhance your social skills, learn to manage
your emotions, reduce your anxieties, and help you to think in more
empowering ways. Combining practical psychological and spiritual
guidance, You've Got This is written in a down to earth,
jargon-free way, helping you, the reader take responsibility over
the most important thing of all - the way you think. Examples of
topics covered: I am homesick and feel lonely I feel like I don't
fit in I feel anxious about attending lectures I am scared to admit
I am struggling at university I feel anxious about submitting my
work I am worried if I don't get good grades, I won't get a good
job I don't like attending lectures Why do I struggle with my
mental health? I think I may have an eating disorder With over 100
topics providing solutions to common challenges faced by the
university student, this book is a preventative tool, helping the
student stay emotionally balanced allowing academic success.
"...This book provides the kind of advice academic staff would want
to offer if they could and gives boundless reassurance to parents
who might be 'too' close to be able to help at the time. Perhaps
most importantly, it offers students an immediate sense of not
being alone, not being the only person to experience such fears,
anxieties and stresses and instils the capacity to deal with the in
ways that will, hopefully, provide them with learning for life."
Professor Jonathan Parker, Bournemouth University
The purpose of this book is to provide readers with an overview of
basic group dynamics and techniques that are effective in Higher
Education and Student Affairs settings. Student affairs
professionals frequently engage in group work and team projects
that require them to engage undergraduate students in ways that are
unlike the classroom or less formal social setting. To help these
individuals navigate their new roles, this book will provide an
overview of basic group dynamics and leadership skills that
facilitate productive group functioning. The book will be both a
textbook that provides content regarding group dynamics, group
theory, and group leadership, and a workbook/guidebook that
provides information and scenarios that encourage readers to
consider how the basic group principals can be applied in various
areas within student affairs.
The Caring Solidarity framework is both descriptive and
aspirational. It is an attempt to empower White teachers to do the
work of interrogating their racial privilege and join in Caring
Solidarity with their African American students. The framework can
be used to describe teachers who are working in Caring Solidarity
with their students and to develop teachers with intention toward
Caring Solidarity. We are in a unique historical moment that
demands White teachers become more effective in their schools,
classrooms, and communities and for researchers to find ways to
describe those teachers who build relationships of solidarity with
students. Considering today's tenor of the conversation around
race, picking up this book and considering its contents is an act
of defiance of the current climate, and/or one of devotion to the
art and craft of teaching children. Caring Solidarity is not a
replacement for current frameworks such as Culturally Sustaining
Pedagogy or Abolitionist Pedagogy but is a map for White teachers
to journey toward those pedagogies. Everyone starts from somewhere.
The path is winding and long but the goal, to create an equitable
and humane classroom, is worth the trip. The purpose of this theory
is to point the way.
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