Creative Mental Health Literacy Practices: A Qualitative Study Exploring How Students Use Literacy to Promote Wellbeing and Manage Mental Health Conditions While at University.
Creative Mental Health Literacy Practices: A Qualitative Study Exploring How Students Use Literacy to Promote Wellbeing and Manage Mental Health Conditions While at University.
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DOI：
10.3390/ijerph20156475
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发表时间：
2023-07-31
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Peach, Emily
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Peach, Emily
鉴于越来越多的本科生心理健康状况不佳并寻求大学的支持，了解学生在大学期间如何管理自己的心理健康比以往任何时候都更加重要。本文报告了一项探索性定性研究，并讨论了患有心理健康问题的学生如何利用读写能力（阅读、写作和文本的使用）来管理他们的心理健康，重点关注快乐阅读、创意写作和子弹日记。通过 2018-2019 学年的深入定性访谈，收集了 11 名学生对其心理健康管理实践的反思记录，然后进行了主题分析。本文重点以三名学生的经历作为案例研究，说明学生如何利用读写能力来管理心理健康困扰，并通过放松、表达情绪和记录心理健康来促进福祉。这些实践能够处理情绪、参与支持性关系、发展自我意识以及反映心理健康进展。这些发现表明，支持学生进行自主的创造性读写实践可以帮助学生管理他们的心理健康并制定持续的积极策略，同时帮助大学管理学生日益增长的帮助需求。
Understanding how students manage their mental health while at university is more important than ever, given the increasing number of undergraduate students experiencing poor mental health and seeking support from their universities. This paper reports on an exploratory qualitative study and discusses how students with mental-health conditions use literacy (reading, writing, and the use of texts) to manage their mental health, focusing on reading for pleasure, creative writing, and bullet journaling. Through in-depth qualitative interviews across the academic year of 2018–2019, 11 students’ reflective accounts of their practices in managing their mental health were collected and then thematically analysed. This paper focusses on the experiences of three students as case studies of how students use literacy to manage times of mental health distress and promote wellbeing through relaxation, the expression of emotions, and the recording of their mental health. These practices enabled the processing of emotions, engagement in supportive relationships, development of a sense of self, and reflection of mental health progress. These findings demonstrate that supporting students to engage in self-directed creative literacy practices could help students to manage their mental health and develop on-going positive strategies while helping universities manage the increased demand for help from students.