Mental Health & Teaching

CUNY Policies

• The City University of New York Policy on Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination
• CUNY IT Accessibility Statement
• Reasonable Accommodations and Academic Adjustments

Context and history

• Overview of commonly shared mental health issues
  • Mental Health
  • Mental Health Conditions
  • The Mental Health Crisis on College Campuses
  • Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Mental Health Fact Sheet

• Overview of mental health diagnoses for which students can request accommodation
  • Accommodating Mental Health
  • Protecting Students with Disabilities
  • An Educator’s Guide to Academic Accommodations for Psychiatric Disabilities

Mental Health for All of Us

• Common instructor mental health challenges and recommendations
  • Heeding the happiness call: why academia needs to take faculty mental health more seriously
  • Mental health in academia: The challenges faculty face predate the pandemic and require systemic solutions
  • Supporting Faculty and Staff Mental Health
• Common student mental health behavior manifestations and recommendations
  • College Students’ Anxiety, Depression Higher Than Ever, but So Are Efforts to Receive Care (University of Michigan)
  • Student mental health is in crisis. Campuses are rethinking their approach (American Psychological Association)
• Hypo-arousal and hyper-arousal in the classroom: awareness and self-monitoring
  • Informational Article: Hyperarousal & Hypoarousal
  • Trauma, Covid-19, and the College Classroom
• I belong, I matter, I contribute, I receive: framing mental health through core beliefs
  • Core beliefs: What they are and how to identify them
  • The Role of Personal Values in Learning Approaches and Student Achievements

Mental Health and Teaching

• Teaching Students with Mental Health Disabilities
• Tackling Students’ Mental Health in the Classroom
• Resilience and Learning Minds (video)
• How to Engage Students and Manage Conflict in the Classroom (video)
• Caring vs. Caretaking (video)

Making referrals

• Kognito 
• Counseling Services Center 
• Public Safety complaint information
• Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT) complaint form
• CCA trainings