Learning & Development

This section is designed to offer staff opportunities to learn more about the mental health challenges that students face, as well as frameworks and guides for supporting these students.

Articles

How to Handle a Mental Health Crisis: Practical Steps for You and Your Loved Ones

How to Help Your Students Cope with Safety Threats in the Community or World

How to Cope with Traumatic Events

10 Signs a Student Needs Mental Health Support and How to Take Action

Student mental health is in crisis. Campuses are rethinking their approach

Healthy Minds Study: College student depression, anxiety decline for third consecutive year

Common Signs and Causes of Student Distress

Guides & Frameworks

A Guide to Trauma-Informed Supervision

JED's Comprehensive Approach to Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention for Colleges and Universities

Equity in Mental Health Framework

Student Mental Health and the Law

Responding to a Suicide: Postvention Guidance for Student Housing Managers

The Coalition's Mental Health Language Guide

Trainings & Webinars

Trainings Offered at UMD

The Training to Evaluate, Respond to, and Prevent Suicide (T.E.R.P.S.) for Terps - a 3-hour in-person comprehensive training for UMD faculty and staff that provides the information needed to recognize when a student is in crisis and the skills and resources to respond effectively.

Helping Students in Distress - a 1-hour training for UMD faculty and staff. This training will assist you in supporting student mental health by reviewing common student concerns, ways to communicate about mental health with students, available mental health resources and how to refer them, and methods of coping for everyone involved. Or, see the recorded webinar.

Mental Health First Aid Training - Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders. This 8-hour training gives you the skills you need to reach out and provide initial support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem and help connect them to the appropriate care. Learn more about Mental Health First Aid by visting the official website.