Ask Dr G - What is student wellbeing to you?
I’m participating on a panel on the 6th August for mid-year commencing students that is focused on wellbeing. Ahead of time the organiser of the […]
I’m participating on a panel on the 6th August for mid-year commencing students that is focused on wellbeing. Ahead of time the organiser of the […]
Update: we now have a new Self Care Mega Guide with extra strategies and our service pamphlet attached to the back. A nice upgrade on the […]
I was on the Health, Counselling and Disability stall yesterday for orientation. Around lunchtime when I was just thinking about food, a buff dude came […]
Note 19/4/19 – an updated self-care guide can be found here. Last week a colleague of mine and I ran a mental health/self-care workshop for […]
There are many things that might wipe out the human race: asteroids, global warming, pandemics, obesity, mental illness, visitation by alien races. Many of these […]
The terms ‘coping’ and ‘resilience’ are thrown around a lot nowadays in relation to university students. The reasons are relatively simple. Studying at university can […]
In today’s mental fitness post, we consider the relationship between daily inattention and smartphone use, thanks to a study by Marty-Dugas et al (2017). I’ll […]
If you’ve had a look at my previous mental fitness posts (introduction, and domains of mental fitness), you are probably saying to yourself – “when […]
There’s no shortage of people telling you how to live your life. Let’s face it, I am one of them. As you are sifting through […]
I’ve written previously about the relationship between social media and mental health, particularly the results of a 2017 report called “#StatusOfMind – Social media and […]
Mental ill health is common. Around 50% of us will experience some kind of mental health problem during our lives, the most common types of problems […]