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
