Beyond the Stigma: Addressing Mental Health Impacts at UWM
Mentor 1
Rose Hennessy Garza
Start Date
28-4-2023 12:00 AM
Description
In an article titled, “Striving to Help College Students with Mental Health Issues,” it was reported that more than 50% of typical college students have reported experiencing depression. The prevalence of negative mental health outcomes across the US is a distinctive public health problem even impacting college students from age 18-25. This program will be targeted at individuals attending UWM who may struggle with their mental health. Mental health which refers to an all-encompassing view of an individual’s emotional, social, and psychological well-being (CDC, 2021). A modified version of intervention mapping will be used to plan the hypothetical program. This will be done through an informal review of the literature to determine risk or protective factors, identify evidence-based strategies and recommendations, and apply health behavior theory. The goals of this program are to increase students and faculties' knowledge of mental health resources, decrease the stigmas, increase organizational policies, and connect people to further community resources if needed. Furthermore, a logic model was created with the inclusion of evidence-based strategies and the Health Belief Model was used to help develop the program. The inclusion of theory and evidence improves the creation of public health programs, by allowing them to be specifically targeted to exact populations and improving the outcomes according to the determined goals. By working to alleviate this issue, the overall mental and physical health of students can improve and the rates of negative mental health outcomes across UWM can be lowered.
Beyond the Stigma: Addressing Mental Health Impacts at UWM
In an article titled, “Striving to Help College Students with Mental Health Issues,” it was reported that more than 50% of typical college students have reported experiencing depression. The prevalence of negative mental health outcomes across the US is a distinctive public health problem even impacting college students from age 18-25. This program will be targeted at individuals attending UWM who may struggle with their mental health. Mental health which refers to an all-encompassing view of an individual’s emotional, social, and psychological well-being (CDC, 2021). A modified version of intervention mapping will be used to plan the hypothetical program. This will be done through an informal review of the literature to determine risk or protective factors, identify evidence-based strategies and recommendations, and apply health behavior theory. The goals of this program are to increase students and faculties' knowledge of mental health resources, decrease the stigmas, increase organizational policies, and connect people to further community resources if needed. Furthermore, a logic model was created with the inclusion of evidence-based strategies and the Health Belief Model was used to help develop the program. The inclusion of theory and evidence improves the creation of public health programs, by allowing them to be specifically targeted to exact populations and improving the outcomes according to the determined goals. By working to alleviate this issue, the overall mental and physical health of students can improve and the rates of negative mental health outcomes across UWM can be lowered.
