How learning about wellbeing can benefit university students' own wellbeing

"Studying wellbeing science as part of their courses could be a key way of improving how today's students cope with the barrage of stressors they face, according to research.

Students are a high-risk population for mental ill-health and face increasing academic demands, high levels of loneliness and sustained financial pressures, which can adversely impact on mental health.

The team say its research is significant for several key reasons:

• students are at high risk of developing mental health difficulties;
• improvements in wellbeing have been shown to reduce future healthcare costs; and
• the findings demonstrate that wellbeing can be improved despite great hardship and suffering.

"These findings have important implications for thinking about how the education sector might support wellbeing alongside other major societal stressors such as the climate catastrophe.""

*Now that I am out of college, I really wish that this type of course was offered. I think students can get so caught up in everything that they forget to take care of themselves. I'll admit it: I would always put schoolwork above my health because it was important and I knew that I needed to succeed. I think I would get so stressed that my immune system would shut down and I would visit the health center because I was either getting consistent headaches or chest tightness due to the stress. I wish I had this class as a reminder to practice self-care and realize that school (or anything in life) is worth all that stress! If your school offered a course like this, would you take it? Why or why not?*

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