The Mental Health Benefits of Pets

There are many reasons people choose to own a pet. They provide companionship, comfort and help you stay active. While some people have registered emotional support animals, your furry friend doesn’t have to be registered in order to provide mental health benefits. 

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Christie Campus Health Joins MTV and More Than 1,750 Organizations Nationwide in Support of the Third Annual National Mental Health Action Day

Christie Campus Health announces its participation in this year’s third-annual Mental Health Action Day, with more than 1,750 other leading companies, brands, nonprofits, and cultural leaders globally. Christie Campus Health is a proud founding partner of this national event. 

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Why it’s critical to have a highly responsive 24/7 Mental Health Support Line for College Students

College is a time for students to have new and exciting experiences, and it can come with its fair share of challenges, making adjusting to college life hard for many. Some students may experience anxiety, depression, or loneliness as a result. Counseling Center Directors have long been reporting that more first-year students are arriving on campus with pre-existing mental health diagnoses, in addition to the fact that college is a time when mental health issues are likely to emerge. This is why colleges and universities must have a reliable 24/7 Clinical Mental Health Support Line for students.

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Christie Campus Heath Senior Advisor, Dr. Amelia Arria, Talks College Student Mental Health and Wellness at the NASPA Annual Conference

Christie Campus Health was thrilled to be a gold sponsor for the NASPA Annual Conference held in Boston where Dr. Amelia Arria, Senior Advisor to Christie Campus Health provided a session on “Supporting College Student Mental Health: Creating Brighter Futures.”

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How common is procrastination in college students and how does it relate to mental health?

Discovering a far more unstructured lifestyle than they knew in high school, many students struggle with time management upon arriving at college. They might put off assignments, overestimating how much time remains before the deadline, only to find later they’ve fallen behind. They shrug off a last-minute submission or, worse, force an all-nighter, assuming that everyone procrastinates. And it’s true—almost everyone does, especially students. Yet the prevalence of procrastination on college campuses may be the reason the depth of the issue ends up flying under the radar.

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MindWise Innovations and Christie Campus Health Announce a Partnership to Support Mental Health on College and University Campuses

Christie Campus Health, the leading provider of mental health and well-being support services to colleges and universities, and MindWise Innovations, an award-winning service of Riverside Community Care that provides evidence-based mental health and substance use services to schools, organizations, and mental health professionals, are proud to announce a partnership.

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Supporting College Students During Spring Break

For some college students, years have passed since spring break took its recognizable form—one that can be marked by partying and binge drinking, at least according to modern media. In March 2020, when the onset of the pandemic first dispersed students from their campuses, the sun-soaked, friend-filled vacations many had arranged morphed into unnerving spells of isolation. Week-long plans to see the world turned to quarantine, without an end date in sight.

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The Impact of the Student Mental Health Crisis on Faculty

Amidst stalled contract negotiations, the faculty at the University of Illinois Chicago went on strike in part to demand the expansion of campus mental health services—but not for themselves. They hoped to outsource care for their students, an overwhelming number of whom have been struggling emotionally and turning to their instructors for help. “Right now, UIC faculty are winging it… and I’m not trained on how I should be supporting these students. I didn’t get a degree in that,” UIC senior lecturer and union official Charitianne Williams told NPR Illinois. “I have a degree in English.”

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College Athlete Mental Health

It’s a common prescription for complaints of everyday stress: “Get some exercise. You’ll feel better.” Time and again, research has shown that regular physical activity can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Yet the widespread association of physical and emotional fitness may also help propagate a dangerous assumption that elite athletes are somehow untouched by serious mental health challenges.

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Christie Campus Health Convenes a Panel of Experts at the 2023 NASPA Strategies Conference for a Session on Non-Counseling Interventions that Support Student Well-Being

As a NASPA Educational Partner, Christie Campus Health was proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the NASPA Strategies Conference in Kansas City, MO last week. While there, Amaura Kemmerer, Christie’s EVP for Client Engagement, led a panel discussion titled “Beyond Counseling: Scalable Interventions to Support Student Well-Being.”

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