Stretching Your Strengths in CEHS - Student Mental Health with Dr. Paul Springer and Special Guest John Goldrich, MSW

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Stretching Your Strengths in CEHS with Dr. Paul Springer and Special Guest John Goldrich, CAPS Staff Counselor. Discussion about Student Mental Health.

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[00:00:05.630]Welcome to Stretching your Strengths and CEHS I'm Paul Springer
[00:00:09.170]I'm the Associate Dean for Student Success in the College of Education and Human
[00:00:13.160]Sciences. In this weeks series,
[00:00:15.680]we're going to be talking about mental health and mental health resources that
[00:00:19.430]exist on the UNL campus.
[00:00:21.680]And we're going to be having a conversation with John Goldrich,
[00:00:24.590]who is a licensed mental health provider at Counseling and Psychological
[00:00:29.270]Services. And so, John, thank you so much for joining us today.
[00:00:33.380]Glad I could be here as a day and provide some information to a lot of young
[00:00:36.740]scholars that are out there.
[00:00:38.210]Excellent. You know,
[00:00:39.200]this last year has really particularly been challenging for many of us,
[00:00:43.700]whether it's been like the global pandemic or the social and racial
[00:00:48.230]unrest that we've been experiencing in our country. And I was hoping today,
[00:00:52.640]John, could you talk a little bit more about CAPS and what
[00:00:57.440]services you offer to students? So students know where to turn to?
[00:01:01.400]Well, one thing we want to say is we want to be sensitive to the
[00:01:06.200]various struggles that are out there,
[00:01:09.530]both social justice wise, politically.
[00:01:12.530]And we'd like to see ourselves as positioned in a place where
[00:01:17.330]we're open to talking with students about struggles that could come from
[00:01:22.160]those areas.
[00:01:23.630]We have individual counseling where a person could come in and talk with
[00:01:28.430]a provider about some concerns and issues that they might be having or that they
[00:01:33.350]might be having with others around those issues.
[00:01:36.050]Excellent.
[00:01:36.980]Now I know that you have the traditional individual sessions.
[00:01:41.210]Do you guys offer groups as well or other support groups?
[00:01:44.990]We do have groups. We have a variety of groups. We have graduate groups,
[00:01:49.610]undergraduate groups,
[00:01:50.810]mixed groups where men and women can be in a group together.
[00:01:54.710]Then we have some specialty groups that pop up from time to time during the
[00:01:58.730]semester that might focus on things like, Oh,
[00:02:02.120]anxiety can be something that could pop up.
[00:02:05.060]We could have other ones that would be a reflection of particular
[00:02:09.860]needs that are going on within the university community as it
[00:02:14.780]interfaces with the greater world.
[00:02:17.420]Oh, that's, that's really great to know. I'm really interested. You know,
[00:02:20.870]what are some of the myths about mental health that you might think may get in
[00:02:24.710]the way of why students don't reach out?
[00:02:27.410]Oh, I will be seen as really, really crazy.
[00:02:32.210]I'm not that crazy to come in for counseling. It's going to cost.
[00:02:37.220]They're not going to understand me.
[00:02:39.530]My friends will think I'm strange for going in and getting help. And my family,
[00:02:44.030]we don't do this.
[00:02:45.380]We just man up or woman up and manage it on our own. Along with, well,
[00:02:49.880]they're just going to read my mind that crystal balls and all that other stuff,
[00:02:53.510]you know. So some of that gets infused into one's thinking as well.
[00:02:57.950]Yeah. You know, I've heard some of those things from students as well,
[00:03:00.970]that they're really just afraid of the process and what's involved. You know,
[00:03:05.680]what would you say to a student who may be struggling,
[00:03:08.470]may feel a little depressed or anxious around classes or COVID-19,
[00:03:13.510]but they're unsure if they should reach out for help.
[00:03:17.220]Well, one of the things that I would suggest to them, as utilize,
[00:03:21.030]let's talk,
[00:03:21.720]it's a great way to touch and see. Where they get to meet with a counselor,
[00:03:26.970]doesn't count towards their counseling sessions, and they just get a good
[00:03:31.530]sense of is this something that I could value or,
[00:03:35.880]would help me as I move forward in my life? Would this be helpful for me?
[00:03:40.350]Because a lot of times people don't know if it's going to be helpful or not.
[00:03:44.070]And sometimes they have preconceived ideas. It may be, it's not, well,
[00:03:47.400]this is a great way to touch and see and see if this could be helpful for
[00:03:52.170]them in their journey. The other thing that I would say to them is, you know,
[00:03:57.030]okay, you're having these struggles. Now,
[00:04:00.120]if it were a physical problem that you were struggling with,
[00:04:03.420]say you broke your arm,
[00:04:05.310]would you not go to a doctor to get some help in regards to that?
[00:04:09.750]Of course, they nod their heads up and down and say, yes. I said, well,
[00:04:13.590]think of it like this. In some ways, it's like
[00:04:16.510]emotional. Emotions have been broken to a certain extent.
[00:04:20.430]And so we help with the repair of broken emotions in some way.
[00:04:25.230]And so going to talk with a counselor can help you heal
[00:04:30.270]from that emotional breakage that you're experiencing.
[00:04:33.960]I love that, that is, that's a great metaphor for what happens in sessions.
[00:04:38.360]So can you kind of tell us how students can reach out for help?
[00:04:42.360]Where can they go? And what, what could they expect when they reach out?
[00:04:48.450]Well, first of all,
[00:04:49.470]I want to say we're doing everything we can do to provide services via
[00:04:54.330]zoom for the students.
[00:04:56.160]And so they can call our office and the secretary is we'll walk them through the
[00:05:00.810]process of getting set up for an initial evaluation where they'll meet with a
[00:05:05.430]counselor, assess the situation,
[00:05:07.620]determine if they need individual or group counseling, and then get them set up
[00:05:12.450]for that.
[00:05:13.350]And so a simple call to our office can set the ball rolling and get the help
[00:05:17.580]that they need.
[00:05:18.930]Yeah. What is that number, do you have that off the top of your head?
[00:05:21.660]402-472-7450
[00:05:25.410]John, I really appreciate you spending time with us today.
[00:05:28.530]Is there anything else you'd like to add?
[00:05:31.350]What I'll add is this,
[00:05:32.910]we like to engage the students in
[00:05:37.050]conversations that can help them get out of their own way,
[00:05:41.490]prevent them from creating barriers in their lives, and in a sense
[00:05:45.870]building bridges over these situations that they're
[00:05:50.400]struggling with so that they can progress and become the scholars
[00:05:55.380]and human beings that they so want to be.
[00:05:58.370]Excellent. Thank you, John, so much.
[00:06:00.560]And I hope students recognize that there are these great resources on campus and
[00:06:05.150]CAPS is an excellent service for all of us to reach out.
[00:06:09.770]So thanks again, John. I really
[00:06:11.380]appreciate it. You're more than welcome. Anything I can do in the future.
[00:06:14.320]Just let me know. Okay. Thank you.

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