Student mental health: why taking a public health approach is necessary

Elina Zalkalne Smith; Emily Long; Dwight Tse; Ella Verrall; Annabella Feeny; Fabienne  dos Santos Sousa; Nicola Cogan

Student mental health: why taking a public health approach is necessary

Elina Zalkalne Smith, Emily Long, Dwight Tse, Ella Verrall, Annabella Feeny, Fabienne dos Santos Sousa, Nicola Cogan

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Abstract

A public health approach to student mental health provides educational institutions a framework to provide care that can reduce demand on counselling and mental health services and increase student wellbeing and resilience. Extending beyond individual-level interventions that target specific populations, diagnoses, risk factors and treatments (i.e. increasing the number of on-campus counsellors or developing an alcohol prevention program), a public health approach adopts a wider systems perspective, considering social, psychological economic, environmental and contextual factors that can synergistically impact on mental health and wellbeing.

Original language	English
Number of pages	8
Journal	Education Today
Early online date	30 Mar 2024
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 30 Mar 2024

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We would like to thank the Scottish Mental Health Research Network (Scotsmart) for supporting this working group.

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student mental health
public health
AI
whole systems approach

UN SDGs

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Student mental health: why taking a public health approach is necessary

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