Sustaining Your Well-Being in Higher Education

Sustaining Your Well-Being in Higher Education
Author: Jorden Cummings
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781032460369

This book provides an evidence-based approach to sustainable self-care, anchoring these strategies in individual academics' core personal values. It teaches readers how to use their values to leverage self-care strategies into a workable, individualised, and effective map to wellness.

Sustaining Your Well-Being in Higher Education

Sustaining Your Well-Being in Higher Education
Author: Jorden Cummings
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2024-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1040125085

This book provides an evidence-based approach to sustainable self-care, anchoring these strategies in individual academic workers’ core personal values. It teaches readers how to use their values to leverage self-care strategies into a workable, individualized, and effective map to wellness. Working in the demanding environment of higher education can leave little time for self-care, yet making space for wellness and self-care is essential to creating a creative and innovative environment for academic work. This book shows how to create and successfully implement realistic self-care plans. By identifying core values and using these to develop individualized self-care plans, Sustaining Your Well-Being in Higher Education pushes back against a one-size-fits-all approach while also discussing the role of self-care in academic labor activism and providing strategies for readers to become advocates for better self-care practices within their zones of influence. Designed to provide academic workers with the skills they need to develop workable and sustainable self-care plans, this book is an invaluable resource for students and professionals working in all areas of higher education.

Leadership Wellness and Mental Health Concerns in Higher Education

Leadership Wellness and Mental Health Concerns in Higher Education
Author: Alexander, Cynthia J.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2022-04-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799876950

Wellbeing is foundational to citizens’ individual and collective ability to acknowledge, address, and alleviate ongoing struggles, shared risks, and the unprecedented challenges of our time. A holistic focus on wellness across campus communities is timely and important, given that national and global justice movements are calling upon post-secondary institutions to address the ways in which education systems have been reproducing dominant narratives, reinforcing systemic discrimination, and retaliating against education leaders who work to disrupt structural inequalities. Leadership Wellness and Mental Health Concerns in Higher Education offers diverse perspectives about whether and how campus leaders around the world are sustaining and advancing health and wellness in unprecedented times and amplifies diverse voices in the exploration of how to advance individual and collective wellbeing in higher education. Covering a wide range of topics such as stress management and burnout, this reference work is ideal for academicians, scholars, researchers, administrators, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Student Mental Health and Wellbeing in Higher Education

Student Mental Health and Wellbeing in Higher Education
Author: Nicola Barden
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-08-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1529700477

This book offers pragmatic guidance to support academic and student services staff in both being proactive within their role to promote a positive approach to wellbeing, and understanding how to care appropriately for students who may not be flourishing in the university environment.

The Emerald Handbook of Wellbeing in Higher Education

The Emerald Handbook of Wellbeing in Higher Education
Author: Keith D. Walker
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2024-07-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1837975043

Scholars from around the globe discuss initiatives, practices, and structures that can provide a positive outlook and flourishing in higher learning, and offer lessons from efforts to promote positive emotional and social aspects for students, leaders, and faculty.

Creating a Place for Self-care and Wellbeing in Higher Education

Creating a Place for Self-care and Wellbeing in Higher Education
Author: Narelle Lemon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000474011

The workplace has significant influence over our sense of wellbeing. It is a place where many of us spend significant amounts of our time, where we find meaning, and often form a sense of identity. Creating a Place for Self-care and Wellbeing in Higher Education explores the notion of finding meaning across academia as a key part of self-care and wellbeing. In this edited collection, the authors navigate how they find meaning in their work in academia by sharing their own approaches to self-care and wellbeing. In the chapters, visual narratives intersect with lived experience and proactive strategies that reveal the stories, dilemmas, and tensions of those working in higher education. This book illuminates how academics and higher education professionals engage in constant reconstruction of their identity and work practices, placing self-care at the centre of the work they do, as well as revealing new ways of working to disrupt the current climate of dismissing self-care and wellbeing. Designed to inspire, support, and provoke the reader as they navigate a career in higher education, this book will be of great interest to professionals and researchers specifically interested in studies in higher education, wellbeing, and/or identity.

Wellbeing in Higher Education

Wellbeing in Higher Education
Author: Marcus A. Henning
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2018-04-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317280296

Academic staff and students within higher education settings are confronted by a learning environment that is academically stimulating, informative, career-focused and socially rich, which can be intensely competitive and highly charged. Within this learning environment, academic staff and students are often at risk of compromising their wellbeing in their pursuit of academic excellence. This book provides an examination of the key areas that are important to the sustenance of wellbeing within higher education settings, with a view to promoting healthy learning environments. The chapter authors are predominantly working in the Asia-Pacific rim, but the book also includes more universal perspectives. The synthesis of the issues covered in the book is crucial to the understanding of higher education as not only an environment for gaining knowledge and skills relevant for success in academic and career domains, but also as an environment for developing socially adept and authentic communication skills. The ideas presented in this book will further assist academic staff and students to consider ways to more fully participate in their learning environment so that they can optimize their valuable contributions to the professional communities they serve.

The Emotional Self at Work in Higher Education

The Emotional Self at Work in Higher Education
Author: Ruffin, Ingrid
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2020-10-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799835219

The many and varied challenges facing higher education include a culture of publish or perish, increased course loads without more pay or benefits, increased pressure on institutions to compete for students, budget cuts, a political atmosphere targeting higher education, and continued systemic inequities. Those who work in higher ed are under more stress today than ever before. It has never been more important to understand and address the emotional self at work in higher education. The Emotional Self at Work in Higher Education is an essential research publication that generates conversations around the practical implementation of healthy emotional workspace practices in the sphere of higher education and investigates tools, frameworks, and case studies that can create a sustainable and healthy work environment. It moves beyond addressing emotional intelligence to addressing the awakening of a greater sense of the emotional self. Featuring a wide range of topics such as distance education, mindfulness, and artificial intelligence, this book is ideal for educators, researchers, academicians, administrators, and students.

Student Mental Health and Wellbeing in Higher Education

Student Mental Health and Wellbeing in Higher Education
Author: Nicola Barden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: College students
ISBN: 9781529700435

This book offers pragmatic guidance to support academic and student services staff in both being proactive within their role to promote a positive approach to wellbeing, and understanding how to care appropriately for students who may not be flourishing in the university environment.

Wellness Issues for Higher Education

Wellness Issues for Higher Education
Author: David S. Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317695534

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.