Interactive Mental Health Workbooks
Mental Health eWorkbooks: Caring Universities
How are you doing?
We know that student life can be challenging, juggling academics, personal life, internships, and more.
That's why we have developed a series of Interactive Mental Health Workbooks for you to boost your life skills in overcoming typical hurdles that university students like you may face. They are part of the international "Caring Universities" initiative, which aims to support student mental health. Each series will take around 30 minutes per week for 4 to 6 weeks.
These self-guided Workbooks include various exercises, videos, and tips that will help you build up skills in areas such as social life, time management, productivity, and more.
Main Features:
- Easy to follow
- Self-paced learning
- Evidence-based content
- Download instantly
Workbook Series (HKU Portal login is required)
Life Hack (Tackling life challenges) |
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In this series, you will learn:
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Introduction: Let’s go |
Emotional Wellbeing: Boost your mood |
Emotional Wellbeing: Stress less & relax more |
Emotional Wellbeing: “Healthify’ your lifestyle |
Your Studies: Study smarter, not harder |
Your Studies: Beat procrastination |
Your Studies: Boost your focus & productivity |
Your Social Life: Level up your social life |
Your Social Life: Overcome social anxiety |
Your Social Life: Express yourself & say no |
Self-esteem: Grow confidence & self-esteem |
Self-esteem: Imposter syndrome, begone! |
Self-esteem: Overcome perfectionism & fear of failure |
Closing module: The finish line |
Esteem Up (Boosting your confidence) | |
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In this series, you will learn:
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1. Kick-start your self-esteem | 2. Confidence booster | 3. Start to own it | 4. Socially self-assured |
Get Started (Overcoming Procrastination) |
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In this series, you will learn:
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1. You, the monkey and the monster |
2. Protection Level: 5000 |
3. A Chat with procrastination brain |
4. I've got to break free |
5. Self high-five |
Resources
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About Caring Universities
The Caring Universities project is embedded within the World Health Organization (WHO) College Student Mental Health Surveys (WMH-ICS). This international initiative aims at improving our knowledge on college students’ mental wellbeing. Realizing the needs of students will help us in prevention but also in early detection and treatment of mental disorders during college years. Caring Universities takes it one step further by also offering free web-based interventions to students in need.
Primarily developed by Ms. Sevin Ozmen, Coach, UX Expert & Programme Creator, the online programmes introduce important life skills to college students who would like to improve mood, reduce stress, and overcome procrastination, etc..
For further details of Caring Universities, please visit https://caring-universities.com.
With the permission from Caring Universities, Counselling and Person Enrichment Section of the Centre of Development and Resources for Students (CEDARS) adapted the online programs into metal health e-workbooks for promoting the mental health of students at The University of Hong Kong.
Acknowledgments
CEDARS is very grateful to Professor Pim Cuijpers, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and his team for giving us access to Caring Universities and permission to adapt the online programs for the production of these mental health e-workbooks. We would like to thank Dr. Sascha Struijs, coordinator of Caring Universities, in facilitating the process.
Our gratitude also goes to the following students who offered feedback and converted these workbooks into an accessible format:
- Cheng Yu Sang Vincent (Medicine)
- Cheung Ho Tin (Medicine)
- Ho Man Hei (Education)
- Kan Wai Sum (Education)
- Kwan Siu Ching Rachel (Arts)
- Lagarde Andrea Jane Miranda (Medicine)
- Lau Chu Sen Pearl (Arts)
- Tong Hoi Ching Salome (Social Sciences)
- Wu Wing Ki (Social Sciences and Law)
