The University Life Café: Promoting Students’ Emotional Health

Date

2010-04-06T16:17:28Z

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Abstract

With the popularization of socio-technical online spaces (high-tech spaces through which people interact, collaborate, and co-create), Web 2.0 ("Social Web") information technologies offer a new tool for the creation of protective factors against suicide, including a virtual student community. Raising awareness of suicide and de-stigmatizing that awareness are critical elements in building protective factors around students. It was in this spirit that Kansas State University began work on a website that would eventually become the University Life Café under the auspices of a federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The University Life Café aligns with university endeavors supporting student development of coping skills.

Description

Keywords

University students, Emotional health, Student engagement, Stress management, Websites, Relationships, Life skills, Video, Suicide

Citation