Mental Health BLOG
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Current Events
Meditation Monday
Date/Time: Monday afternoons
Location: Instagram Live @uvumentalhealth
Presenter(s): Dr. Ben Bailey, UVU Student Health Services, Mental Health Therapist
Description:
Mondays at 4:30 PM, Dr. Bailey shares thoughts on living mindfully, and leads a short
guided meditation. Please join Dr. Bailey for the Instagram Live event, or watch the
presentations anytime via Instagram TV. Feel free to share comments and/or ask questions.
Mental Health Series
Date/Time: Tuesday at Noon
Location: Microsoft Teams
Presenter(s): Broderick Brown, M.S. and Benjamin H. Bazzi, B.A.; APA Doctoral Interns
Description:
This weekly series is led by our APA Doctoral Interns and provides tips for navigating
mental health challenges shared by many students: Stress, Depression and Anxiety,
Relationships, Moods, and several other topics.
Request a Presentation
To schedule a Preventive Outreach Presentation, please click on the button below and fill out the presentation request form. Please provide as much detail as possible so that we can best match you to a presenter. Once the form is submitted, you will be contacted at the email provided to confirm your presentation, or obtain further information.
Please request your presentations as far in advance as you are able. We make every effort to accommodate presentation requests; with more notice we have greater flexibility to accommodate your needs. If for some reason the times or dates you request are not available, we will attempt to find an alternate time to meet your needs
Online Presentations
Workshops:
Student Health Services provides valuable mental health information.
Meditation Monday
Date/Time: Mondays at 4:30pm
Location: Microsoft Teams
Presenter(s): Dr. Ben Bailey
Description:
Dr. Bailey shares thoughts on living mindfully, and leads a short guided meditation.
Please join Dr. Bailey for the Instagram Live event, or watch anytime in the following
24 hours via our Instagram Live feed. If you join live, please feel free to share
comments or ask questions.
Mental Health Series Presentations on Instagram
Faculty and staff at UVU can request presentations for classroom or staff audiences. We need your participation for the Preventive Outreach Program to be effective. The presentations will cover topics that are valuable to our student population. Presentation topics cover common concerns such as:
- Time Management: How to plan your time and tasks effectively.
- Self-care for Helping Professions: How to help others without depleting yourself.
- Study Skills: Learn effective study and test taking skills.
- Stress Management: College can be stressful! Learn coping tools for managing daily stressors.
- Relationships: Learn healthy tools for communicating and connecting with others.
- Emotions: We all have them! Learn about how to engage with emotions in healthy ways.
- Depression and Anxiety: How to recognize symptoms, myths of depression and anxiety, and helpful interventions.
- Science of Happiness: Learn how to cultivate happiness in your own life.
- Distraction Management: ADHD or not, we can all increase our skills to make class and study time more effective.
- Human Sexuality: A few basic points for understanding the sexuality of yourself, and others.
- Assertive Communication: Learning about different communication styles can have strong benefits for personal and professional relationships.
- Mindfulness for College Students: Awareness and acceptance are the first steps to better managing stress and juggling complicated lives.
Presentations are also available in the highlights section of @uvumentalhealth on Instagram.
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On Demand Streaming Presentations
General Mental Health Series:
This series is led by UVU Student Health Services Mental Health Therapists. The series provides tips for navigating mental health challenges shared by many students, such as: Stress, Depression and Anxiety, Relationships, Moods, and several other topics.
Stress Less
Stress Less: Dr. Cheney provides tips and tools for managing stress. Breathing techniques, avoiding rigidity, and balancing physical health to maintain mental health are touched upon.
COVID Care
COVID Care: Mental Health has never been more deserving of attention than during the global pandemic. Dr. Zimmerman validates the difficulties faced by many and provides skills for attending to our personal needs during this trying time.
ADHD Workshop Series:
Open to all UVU students and employees. These psychoeducational workshops are focused on understanding ADHD, and managing distractive symptoms for individuals with or without a diagnosis of ADHD. This series of workshops will provide entry-level information as well as symptom management skills. Intended for audience members either who experience distractive symptoms or who function in a role where understanding distraction is helpful. View each episode, or only the episode(s) that fit your interest and schedule.
Introduction
Week 1: Introduction -- ADHD comes with challenges which means it helps develop some great strengths! In this introduction to the workshop Dr. Cheney shares some basic information about ADHD.
Inattention, Part 1
Week 2: Inattention, Part 1 -- Inattentive symptoms cluster together for some individuals with ADHD, and are experienced less intensely among neuro-typical populations. Dr. Cheney provides some tools for recognizing and managing inattention.
Inattention, Part 2
Week 3: Inattention, Part 2 -- Inattentive symptoms cluster together for some individuals with ADHD, and are experienced less intensely among neuro-typical populations. Dr. Cheney provides more tools for recognizing and managing inattention.
Hyperactivity, Part 1
Week 4: Hyperactivity, Part 1 -- A minority of adults with ADHD experience hyperactive symptoms. This makes it all the more important to understand how hyperactivity is unfairly stigmatized and how hyperactive symptoms can be managed and accommodated in different environments.
