uKindness

AACC Mental Health Mondays 

• Messages with information from the African American graduate student therapists at the UConn Psychological Services Clinic in partnership with the African American Cultural Center. Upcoming topics will include: strategies to help de-stress, mindfulness and meditation, signs of depression and anxiety, preparing for school-related stress, when and how to seek professional psychological help, and much more. Please stay tuned for the next announcement and send an email to aacc@uconn.edu to be added to our ListServ if you are not already.  *If you have mental health concerns, please contact the Psychological Services Clinic at 860-486-4848.  For more information, contact: Pauline Batista at pauline.batista@uconn.edu

• Introduction to Mindfulness
  • Student Health and Wellness is offering a workshop to support stress reduction and overall well-being. This 60 minute workshop introduces basic skills of mindfulness practice to include deep breathing, present moment awareness, and self-acceptance.
  • https://uconnvtc.webex.com/meet/WorkshopSHaWMH

• Managing Mental Health During the Pandemic

• Stress Reduction in 5 Minutes or Less.pdf.pdf

• Managing Stress (video)

• How to Make Stress your Friend (video)

• Spirituality, Meaning, and Health Lab.  Research focuses on multiple aspects of coping with stressful events, including the roles of religious beliefs and religious coping, the phenomenon of stress-related growth, and the making of meaning in the context of traumatic events and life-threatening illnesses, particularly cancer and congestive heart failure.

• How to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed.  You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there's a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations, when your thinking becomes clouded -- the pre-mortem. "We all are going to fail now and then," he says. "The idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be.

• Stress Management: Breathing Exercises for Relaxation.  Have you ever noticed how you breathe when you feel relaxed? The next time you are relaxed, take a moment to notice how your body feels. Or think about how you breathe when you first wake up in the morning or just before you fall asleep. Breathing exercises can help you relax, because they make your body feel like it does when you are already relaxed.

• Headspace is an app and website that offers tools and resources for the mind including movement and healthy living, meditation, sleep and wake up, and stress anxiety.

• Mood and Anxiety Clinic
  • The Mood and Anxiety Clinic at the UConn Health is dedicated to providing comprehensive and compassionate care to individuals struggling with mood and anxiety symptoms

• Self-care Tips to Reduce Anxiety
  • As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to increase, anxiety related to the outbreak is on the rise too. But there are things you can do to help reduce your anxious feelings and in turn, strengthen your immune system.

• Learning Anxiety: 10 Ways to Calm Your Mind
• • If you frequently find yourself dealing with stress and anxiety that’s interfering with your studying, here are a few tried and proven tips for managing your learning anxiety.