Description This illustrated pocket guide offers advice, practical tips and useful exercises to help students build their resilience in college.
In the age of helicopter parents, young adults arrive at college inexperienced in failure and the valuable lessons of bouncing back.
This leads to feelings of being overwhelmed and unable to cope with even normal setbacks.
BUILDING RESILIENCE AT COLLEGE provides tools for these students to overcome life's normal challenges in the college setting.
In it, students are shown how to learn from their failures and apply those lessons to future attempts, how to manage their own expectations, how to create and achieve goals, and how to bounce back from setbacks along the way.
The series is written by award-winning student mental health specialist, Dr Dominique Thompson and edited for the U.
student market by licensed U.
therapists who specialize in the areas of mental health most affecting the new college student.
This easy-to-read guide ensures that students have all the tools they need to build their resilience so they be truly be successful in college.
About the Author Dr Dominique Thompson has worked with university students for nearly two decades, and in 2017 contributed towards a landmark report on the nation's student wellbeing, as well as being involved in the Mental Wellbeing in Higher Education working group of Universities UK.
Dr Thompson now works with universities across the UK on their mental health strategies, as well as providing training to university staff.