Mental Health
Student Mental Health - Why Taking a Public Health Approach is Necessary
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.
Public Mental Health Working Group for Scotsmart