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Resilience Peer Network to supplement student mental health services

The Resilience Peer Network, a peer-to-peer counseling service, will be implemented in the spring to supplement Counseling and Psychological Services.
The Resilience Peer Network, a peer-to-peer counseling service, will be implemented in the spring to supplement Counseling and Psychological Services.
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The UCLA Student Affairs office and UCLA Campus and Student Resilience are partnering with the Depression Grand Challenge to provide students with peer-to-peer counseling outside of a clinical setting. UCLA psychologists will train student volunteers in active listening and suicide prevention, among other skills.

Source: Resilience Peer Network to supplement student mental health services Daily Bruin, 19 Jan. 2016

Additional coverage of the Depression Grand Challenge on campus:

All of Us town hall encourages wider discourse on mental health issues UCLA Newsroom, 27 Jan. 2016

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Many Black Students Don’t Seek Help for Mental-Health Concerns, Survey Finds

African-American students feel less emotionally prepared for college than white students do, and they’re also more likely to keep their worries to themselves, according to the results of a national poll released on Wednesday. Black students also didn’t seek help as often as white students for their mental and emotional problems when experiencing depression, anxiety, or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education

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New Partnership To Support Mental Health Of College Students Of Color

The Jed Foundation has announced their partnership with the Steve Fund to provide colleges and universities with recommended practices for improving support for the mental health and emotional well-being of America’s college students of color. In addition, new data demonstrating the urgency of improving mental health support for students has been released.

Read more at The Jed Foundation

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UCLA Q&A: The modern mismatch

Rebecca Cabage/ UCLA
Rebecca Cabage/ UCLA

Dr. Peter Whybrow, best-selling author and director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, believes that a stressful mismatch between the brain’s evolved biology and today’s demanding culture has helped shape behavior and habits that can prove trying. Dr. Whybrow notes the correlation between a more stressful and competitive society and more anxiety and depression, especially for students on campus.

Read more at UCLA Newsroom

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