Title: Mental Health Service
Duration: 2:41
Mental Health adviser: Mental health and wellbeing is on a spectrum. We can all have times when our mental health is good, and other times when we're managing difficulties.
Mental Health adviser, voiceover: The University aims to provide a supportive environment that will help students with mental health difficulties to realise their academic potential and successfully complete their courses. There are two Mental Health Advisers within the team who are both qualified and experienced practitioners within the mental health field.
Mental Health adviser: Alongside the practical support offered by the Disability Team, we offer confidential one-to-one support…
Mental Health adviser, voiceover: …with help to identify triggers and to look at positive ways to manage them.
Mental Health adviser: What we're looking to do here is to try and give you a similar type of support, but perhaps there could be more things that we could do.
Student 1: I think I'd be happy
[Conversation between adviser and student continues in the background]
Mental Health adviser, voiceover: We offer advice and guidance to students’ welfare tutors and departments, and we liaise with students’ GPs and other teams involved in their care. We also advise potential students who are considering applying to the University.
Mental Health adviser: We recommend that students get in touch with the Team as soon as possible, to ensure that any support they need is put in place before they start their course.
Student 2: Well I knew the University had a men’s group to help with people who'd suffered from mental health problems, either previously or they were still suffering from them, and basically I just thought I could offer my own input to the service basically, and just empathise with other people’s situations basically. It was interesting getting to know other people who'd gone through the similar things that I had gone through. I think when I was younger and I was at school I didn't really know of anyone else, people didn't really talk about it so much at school, but I think coming to university, it’s such an accepting environment for anyone, and I think I felt much more at ease to talk about it in a group where they'd gone through similar things that I had gone through. I would definitely advise any student in the first few weeks if they feel they have had past mental health problems or if they feel they are suffering from mental health problems in, at the moment, to definitely seek help from the Mental Health Service at the University, which is easily accessible. They've got lots of information on their website to help you. There’s nothing to be ashamed with and I think they can, they, you'll find someone you can confide in then, when you're just starting to make new friends.
