Description
Wellness Issues for Higher Education is an essential resource that addresses a range of student wellness issues confronting professionals in college and university settings. Organized around five dimensions of Wellness—Emotional, Social, Intellectual, Physical, and Spiritual—this book comprehensively covers key topics that contribute to students’ success in college. Each topical chapter includes proactive wellness advice, and is designed to prepare the reader to better understand the facts, issues, and strategies appropriate for addressing the issue.
Each Chapter Features:
- Background information, theory, and research
- Historical and emerging issues
- Common questions, controversies, challenging situations, and misconceptions
- Practical applications for the campus
This practical guide prepares practitioners to understand and deal with the wellness and health promotion issues contributing to their students’ overall success and well-being. Armed with this valuable resource, higher education and student affairs professionals can work to improve academic performance, retention, satisfaction, and quality of life. This thorough resource will guide those working at any level in residence life, student activities, orientation, health education, student leadership, advising, instruction, and other areas of student development.
Table of Contents
Preface
- Introduction: A Wellness Mandate for Higher Education
- Stress Management: # Too Blessed to be Stressed
- Mental Health: Creating and Cultivating A Campus Community That Supports Mental Health
- Technology: The Challenging Role Technology Plays in the Lives of College Students
- Relationship Health: Helping Students Thrive as They Relate to Others
- Sexual Decision-Making: Everyone’s Doing It, Right?
- Alcohol: Reaching Students Through Education and Intervention
- Prescription and Illicit Drug Abuse: Changing the Narrative
- Study and Writing Skills: Fostering Students’ Academic Development and Engagement
- Sleep: Enhancing Bedtime Performance
- Nutrition: Eating to Survive or Thrive
- Exercise: Hey Millennial, It’s Time to Get Physical!
- Spiritual Development: Setting a Place at the Table for Spirituality
David S. Anderson
SECTION I: EMOTIONAL WELLNESS
Constance S. Boehm and Lance C. Kennedy-Phillips
Dori S. Hutchinson
Kevin Kruger
SECTION II: SOCIAL WELLNESS
Bridget Guernsey Riordan
Joleen M. Nevers and Heather Eastman-Mueller
Shannon K. Bailie, Jason R. Kilmer, and M. Dolores Cimini
David S. Anderson and Tom Hall
SECTION III: INTELLECTUAL WELLNESS
Daniella Olibrice
SECTION IV: PHYSICAL WELLNESS
Michael McNeil
Annann Hong
Linda A. Knight, Jennifer R. Fisher, and Parth K. Patel
SECTION V: SPIRITUAL WELLNESS
Maria F. DiLorenzo
