Building and Maintaining Strong Mental Health

Overview

Medical student and resident resilience is a trending topic among medical schools and healthcare employers as evidenced by the on-going research and program development. Areas that have been found to contribute to resiliency and wellness include:

• Resilience in Medical Education: What is it and why is it important? Does it impact patient care?
• Self-awareness: What makes you happy? What do you fear?
• Compassionate Communication: Connect your values to your life
• Dealing with Difficult Emotions in Medical School
• Setting Boundaries: Learn to say no
• Sympathy – Empathy – Compassion
• Self-compassion: Avoiding burnout
• Maintaining Motivation and Finding Meaning
• Attitude of Gratitude: Integrating positivity into your life
• Freedom in Forgiveness: Becoming unstuck
• Mantras, Meditation, and Yoga
• The Art of Expression: Discover how our thoughts, feelings, words and actions produce energies that attract like energies into our lives
• Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques
• Cooking Healthy Class
• Eating Healthy on a Budget
• Stages of Group Processing and Team Building

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Building and Maintaining Strong Mental Health

Group 1: Resilience

• What is resilience? (PDF)
• Resiliency Quiz
• Developing Your Resilience CORE

Group 2: Stress & Relaxation

• What is mindfulness?
• Mindfulness Quiz
• Benefits of Mindfulness
• Relaxation Techniques
• Are You on the Path to Burnout?
• Burnout Prevention (PDF)
• Stress Screening
• Anxiety Screening
• Stress Relief in the Moment
• Meditation at Home

Group 3: Mental Health

• DBSA Depression Screening
• Depression Symptoms and Warning Signs
• Authentic Happiness
• Self-compassion Test and Practices
• 8 Keys to Forgiveness
• Healer's Art Course

Group 4: Nutrition

• Good Food on a Tight Budget
• Clean Fifteen™ and Dirty Dozen™
• Nutrient Information Collection
• Meal Prepping 101

Group 5: Physical Fitness and Recreation

• Wright State Campus Recreation
• The Physiology of Tai Chi and QiGong
• Tai Chi in 5 minutes a day for beginners
  • Module 1
  • Module 2
  • Module 3
  • Module 4
  • Module 5
• QiGong
  • For Mindful Presence
  • For Stress, Anxiety, and Energy

Group 6: Building Community

• Where Boonshoft students live

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On-campus Student Support Resources

• Wright State Student Advocacy and Wellness
• Medical Student Mental Health Services
• Counseling and Wellness
• Raider Cares and Suicide Prevention
• Title IX and Gender-Based Violence
• Bias Incident Reporting
• Discrimination and Harassment
• University Police Department

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Off-campus Student Support Resources

• Samaritan Behavioral Health
• Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence
• Artemis Center
• Family Violence Prevention Center, Greene County