Mental health articles

Many simple problems of academic underachievement yield rather quickly to active short-term counseling, tutoring, or workshop interventions, so long as the student is motivated for change and does not have significant cognitive limitations or emotional interferences. Longer-term psychotherapeutic interventions can effectively remove psychological blocks to academic performance but require greater investment of time, energy, and […]

Depending upon how broadly college mental health practitioners defi ne their responsibility, the following goals may guide their interventions: Enhance students’ academic accomplishments to implement the college’s educational aims. Facilitate development of students’ full achievement potential by helping them overcome cognitive limitations and resolve psychological confl icts, inhibitions, or aff ective disturbances. Promote students’ capacity […]

mindfulness for dummies definition Mindfulness is the practice of simply paying attention with an open and nonjudgmental attitude. It involves attending to each moment in a very real and immediate fashion—directing attention to only one thing in the moment. Th ose who promote mindfulness consider the process of concentrating on experience, rather than interpreting experience, […]

Authentic Happiness Many also consider Martin Seligman’s (2002) concept of authentic happiness to be a stress preventative. Seligman identifi es a set of six personal values that are associated with authentic happiness: wisdom and knowledge, courage, love and humanity, justice, temperance, and spirituality and transcendence. He also asserts that happiness is cultivated by focusing on […]