Speaker
Karin Jensen, Ph.D.
Date
Location
University of Houston
Abstract
Higher education is facing a mental health crisis that continues to intensify, underscoring the urgent need to increase our understanding of student mental health to develop proactive support. In this seminar, I will investigate the narrative of required stress and hardship during engineering programs that perpetuate a stress culture and explore how perceptions around norms impact student help-seeking and peer interactions. I will share our work to build predictive models to enhance our understanding of the dynamic and multivariate factors related to student mental health. Finally, I will share how we connect this research to curricular interventions to support student wellness and change the engineering narrative to create a wellness culture.