: A Travel Size CARE Package for Health and Mental Wellness in the Academy (virtual double session)
Preferred Delivery
Virtual
Length of Presentation
90 minutes
Start Date
20-10-2023 10:00 AM
End Date
20-10-2023 11:30 AM
Document Type
Workshop
Abstract
To help participants build a CARE Package for Health and Mental Wellness, the workshop presenters will discuss strategies to recognize, manage, and cope with the mental, emotional, and physical health challenges students, staff, and faculty may encounter in the academy. The workshop will focus on anxiety, stress, strain, burnout, and signs of distress that impact their mental wellness and well-being. As clinical mental health clinicians and educators, the presenters will discuss the importance of health and wellness and self-care. The workshop will focus on the needs of the participants and provide opportunities and safe spaces for the participants to create a self-care package. Resources will be provided by presenters and participants. Audience participation is strongly encouraged but optional.
Description
Session Description: Overview: This workshop will provide students, staff, and faculty with a primary care package consisting of a mixture of little treats and pleasing necessities. The participants will receive information to maintain and balance their health and mental wellness. From this workshop, participants will have the tools, coping strategies, skills, resources, and a personalized self-care plan they need to place in their care package. They will create a care package to help them recognize and manage the mental, emotional, and physical health challenges while navigating a college campus. Audience participation is encouraged.
Learning Objectives: Participants will:
- Gain knowledge of pertinent mental health, physical health, socio-emotional, and behavioral issues
- Recognize signs of depression, anxiety, stress, and other mental health issues
- Understand the importance of self-care and how to pull together a self-care plan.
- Have tailored strategies and resources to manage and cope with mental, emotional, social, cognitive, and physical health challenges.
Program Assessments: Participants will:
- Identify three major mental health, emotional, or behavioral issues affecting their lives.
- Recognize three signs of depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.
- Create a toolbox with self-care strategies to go in their care package.
- Place three or more resources relevant to their mental health, physical health, and socio-emotional in their care package and mail themselves their care package.
Target Audience: College Students, Staff, and Faculty
Relevance to Conference Theme: The importance of a presentation on navigating mental and emotional challenges is relevant to making excellence inclusive (the conference theme).
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: A Travel Size CARE Package for Health and Mental Wellness in the Academy (virtual double session)
To help participants build a CARE Package for Health and Mental Wellness, the workshop presenters will discuss strategies to recognize, manage, and cope with the mental, emotional, and physical health challenges students, staff, and faculty may encounter in the academy. The workshop will focus on anxiety, stress, strain, burnout, and signs of distress that impact their mental wellness and well-being. As clinical mental health clinicians and educators, the presenters will discuss the importance of health and wellness and self-care. The workshop will focus on the needs of the participants and provide opportunities and safe spaces for the participants to create a self-care package. Resources will be provided by presenters and participants. Audience participation is strongly encouraged but optional.
Speaker Information
aretha marbley
Dr. aretha faye marbley is a Professor, Director of Clinical Mental Health Counseling in Counselor Education, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Scholar in Residence and AACTE Holmes Program Coordinator in the College of Education, and a former Interim Director of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Tech University. She is an academic counselor and a critical humanist, womanist educator, storyteller, activist, servant, morally engaged researcher, and transdisciplinary scholar with a commitment to helping people and communities. Her scholarship focuses on critical global multicultural-social justice activism, organic connections, and literacy advocacy across cultures, social structures, and social identities in mental health and communities. She has received numerous awards including national human rights, social justice, anti-oppression, and multicultural research.
Brian Hicks
Dr. Brian A. Hicks serves in two roles at Western Governors University, as Senior Program Mentor- Faculty Experience and as Deputy Chair for the Student Conduct Board (Student Conduct Office). He has served as President of the Piney Woods Counseling Association where he is currently serving as Parliamentarian and Co-Technology Officer. He has completed a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology at Tarleton State University) and a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision program at Texas Tech University while pursuing professional licensure in counseling. He has presented at local, state, and national levels including the Texas Counseling Association and the American Counseling Association where he has volunteered in various service roles and on committees over the past seven years.
Melissa Galica
Melissa Galica is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a doctoral candidate at Texas Tech University. She received her master's degree in counseling education from Texas Tech University. She also received degrees in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies, from Texas Tech University. She is the proud owner of Grannus Counseling, PLLC. Melissa's research interests and agenda include feminism and feminist therapy, graduate academic struggle, post-postpartum mental health, and LBGTQIA+ mental well-being.
Rose Chumba
Rose Chumba is a doctoral student and graduate assistant in the Counselor Education Program at Texas Tech University. She earned her master’s degree in Guidance and Counseling from Egerton University, Kenya. She also received her Bachelor of Science in Education degree at Egerton University, Kenya, and works in the same Institution as a Senior Counselor and Coordinator of the Students Leadership Development Program. Rose is affiliated with Texas Counselors Association (TCA) and Kenya Universities Professional Counselors Association (KUPCA). Rose was awarded Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) and the British Psychological Society Status membership (MBPsS), UK. She is interested in social justice and advocacy in promoting Self-efficacy among women, Cultural issues, Career, and mentorship programs, Gender equity in Leadership roles, and mental health.