The Think Positive Hub brings together all of the projects, services, resources and news relating to student mental health in one place, for students and those who support them to easily access.
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Think Positive Podcast – 2 – Racism
In this episode, we’ll be starting a conversation on racism and mental health.
Think Positive Podcast – 3 – Loneliness
In this episode, we’ll be exploring the topic of loneliness and how it interacts with and affects student mental health.
Think Positive Podcast – 1
In this podcast, you can expect an open, honest and practical discussion about racism, loneliness, environmental sustainability, poverty and studying from home.
Thriving Learners University Research
Thriving Learners is one of the largest and most significant studies of student mental health that has ever taken place in the UK. In our first year of the project, over 15,000 university students across Scotland participated to share their experiences of mental health and wellbeing.
BACP – student mental health video
This two-minute animated cartoon explains when and how counselling can help college students.
NUS Coronavirus Student Survey (SMHA Information Day 2021)
During this presentation NUS gave an overview of the mental health and wellbeing findings from their coronavirus student survey.
Improving mental health and wellbeing support for Scotland – Think Positive Research
Research carried out by BSV Associates for National Union of Students Scotland in 2020. Believed to be the first of its kind in Scotland, covering both further and higher education students, the research included a survey of over 3,000 college and university students, alongside in-depth analysis of the mental health and wellbeing services of eight case-study institutions.
Self-Management Resource
Students and staff from universities and colleges across Scotland consistently tell us that support to improve student mental health needs to be a priority. Experiencing mental illness or poor mental wellbeing can have a pronounced impact on a student’s attendance, attainment, and even result in them leaving their course before completion. We wanted to find out more about students’ experience of managing mental ill health while studying. With funding from the ALLIANCE we were able to undertake research on self-management with students experiencing mental illness. We hope that this report will allow students and staff to think about mental health from a new perspective and highlight the ways in which to best support students to self-manage.
