SPOTLIGHT ON... Supporting mental health
Published: 2 May 2018
If personal and/or professional issues are impacting on your mental wellbeing, do consider exploring what University of Glasgow and IHW can currently offer in terms of support.
If personal or professional issues are impacting on your mental wellbeing, do consider exploring what University of Glasgow can currently offer in terms of support.
Information about staff counselling, the Employee Assistance Programme, and the university's Occupational Health Unit is available on the Equality and Diversity website
Alternatively, speak to your line manager or another trusted colleague if you are struggling.
Several IHW staff have now completed Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training - the mental health equivalent of physical first aid - and, in due course, we will be circulating the names and contact details of the colleagues you may approach for support should you find yourself in mental distress during the working day.
University of Glasgow links
- Disability Service
- Equality and Diversity Unit
- Disability Equality Group
- Counselling and Psychological Services
External links
Mental health and higher education in the news
- Feeling overwhelmed by academia? You are not alone Nature 2018
- Mental health in academia is too often a forgotten footnote Science 2018
- More academics and students have mental health problems than ever before The Conversation 2018
- "I wish we could talk more openly about mental health in academia" The Guardian 2018
First published: 2 May 2018
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