{"id":2,"date":"2016-04-22T01:45:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T08:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-02-09T12:15:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T19:15:02","slug":"project-background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Identifying<em> the influence of teaching practices on undergraduate students&#8217; mental health and wellbeing in the Faculties of Arts and Science<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wellbeing and learning environments in higher education\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QNR-nbIgXVA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>[watch video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KjQF1yIg0nQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\">with closed captioning<\/a>]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Studies have indicated that mental health and\u00a0wellbeing are connected to a student\u2019s ability to learn (Eisenberg,\u00a0Hunt, &amp; Speer, 2013; Keyes et al., 2012; Martin, 2010).\u00a0Evidence also shows that different teaching practices\u00a0affect student learning outcomes (Dennison, Gruber, &amp;\u00a0Vrbsky, 2010; Moulding, 2010; Svinicki &amp; McKeachie,\u00a02014). However, to date, it remains unknown whether teaching practices influence post-secondary students\u2019\u00a0mental health and wellbeing and if so, how. This\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tlef.ubc.ca\/2016-funded-proposals\/\">TLEF- funded\u00a0project<\/a>\u00a0seeks to identify teaching practices that\u00a0are effective at both promoting effective learning and\u00a0supporting student wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/files\/2016\/04\/Teaching-and-Wellbeing.jpg\" alt=\"Teaching and Wellbeing\" width=\"456\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/files\/2016\/04\/Teaching-and-Wellbeing.jpg 456w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/files\/2016\/04\/Teaching-and-Wellbeing-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Year 1 of the project (2015-16) focused on data collection\u00a0and analysis; year 2 of the project (2016-17) focuses on creating and sharing professional development\u00a0resources for instructors.<\/p>\n<p>Like to read about our published paper on this project:<\/p>\n<p>Lane, K., Teng, M. Y., Barnes, S. J., Moore, K., Smith, K., &amp; Lee, M. (2018). Using Appreciative Inquiry to Understand the Role of Teaching Practices in Student Well-being at a Research-Intensive University. <em> The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9 <\/em> (2). Retrieved from <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.lib.uwo.ca\/cjsotl_rcacea\/vol9\/iss2\/10\">https:\/\/ir.lib.uwo.ca\/cjsotl_rcacea\/vol9\/iss2\/10<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lee, M., Wada, M., Cater, K., Goldman-Hasbun, J., Nga Le, T., Pang, M., Ma, C., Hambler P., Sun, C., &amp; Jung, D. (2018). Conducting a university student mental health needs assessment using a participatory action research approach. <em>SAGE Research Methods Cases<\/em>. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/ 10.4135\/9781526446664<\/p>\n<p>Wada, M., Suto, M., Lee, M., Sanders, D., Sun, C., Le, T.N., Goldman-Hasbun, J. &amp; Chauhan, S. (2019). University students&#8217; perspectives on mental illness stigma. <em>Mental Health &amp; Prevention<\/em>, <em>14<\/em>, 200159. http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.mph.2019.200159<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>References<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dennison, S. T., Gruber, K. J., &amp; Vrbsky, L. (2010). Research literature review on social work education instructional methods: 1998\u20132008. <em>Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 30<\/em>(4), 399419.<br \/>\ndoi:10.1080\/08841233.2010.517732<\/p>\n<p>Eisenberg, D., Hunt, J., &amp; Speer, N. (2013). Mental health in American colleges and universities: Variation across student subgroups and across campuses. <em>Journal of Nervous &amp; Mental Disease,\u00a0201<\/em>(1), 6067. doi:10.1097\/NMD.0b013e31827ab077<\/p>\n<p>Keyes, C. L., Eisenberg, D., Perry, G. S., Dube, S. R., Kroenke, K., &amp; Dhingra, S. S. (2012). The relationship of level of positive mental health with current mental disorders in predicting suicidal\u00a0behavior and academic impairment in college students. <em>Journal of American College Health, 60<\/em>(2),126133.<\/p>\n<p>Martin, J. M. (2010). Stigma and student mental health in higher education. <em>Higher Education Research &amp; Development, 29(<\/em>3), 259274. doi:10.1080\/07294360903470969<\/p>\n<p>Moulding, N. T. (2010). Intelligent design: Student perceptions of teaching and learning in large social work classes. <em>Higher Education Research &amp; Development, 29<\/em>(2), 151165.\u00a0doi:10.1080\/07294360903470977<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Written by Teaching Practices &amp; Student Mental Health TLEF 2015-17 team [April 2016] <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identifying the influence of teaching practices on undergraduate students&#8217; mental health and wellbeing in the Faculties of Arts and Science [watch video with closed captioning]\u00a0 Studies have indicated that mental health and\u00a0wellbeing are connected to a student\u2019s ability to learn (Eisenberg,\u00a0Hunt, &amp; Speer, 2013; Keyes et al., 2012; Martin, 2010).\u00a0Evidence also shows that different teaching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Project Overview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":669,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}