Panther Care: Navigate Your Way to Mental Wellness

Discover which resources are right for you to support your mental wellbeing, at this time.

The Panther Care Model is founded on the beliefs that people shouldn’t have to wait for psychological services. People require different levels of care, and finding the right level of care often depends on monitoring outcomes.

Panther Care is inspired by the Stepped Care Approach, which is a system of delivering and monitoring mental health treatment so the most effective, yet least resource-intensive treatment, is delivered first. Addressing one's mental health through treatment can then be either “stepped up” or “stepped down” depending on the level of their need. For example, less intensive treatments include self-help approaches or peer support, and more intensive treatments can include individual therapy or psychiatric consultation. Throughout the process, mental health indicators are monitored to give both the helper and student feedback on their progress and to empower the student to participate actively in care options, decisions and delivery.

Benefits to Panther Care Model
• It promotes client responsibility, autonomy and resilience
• Steps are based in part on client readiness for change
• It includes face-to-face and/or online components to meet students where they are
• It applies solutions-focused, strengths-based interventions first
• It ensures rapid access to prevent more serious health and mental health conditions

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Participate in workshops and trainings that can benefit your mental wellbeing.

Your Wheel to Wellness: During this session, you will discover how you are practicing social, physical, spiritual, emotional, occupational, environmental, financial, and physical wellness. Participants will set a goal related to the dimension(s) they wish to improve. Throughout the program, on-campus resources will be explored.

Gratitude & Self-Compassion: Participants will discover the benefits of gratitude and how it affects themselves and others. In addition, participants will experience how gratitude can make an impact during interactive activities, such as a gratitude letter and the lollipop moment activity. Engaging self-compassion exercises will be implemented during this program. Participants will then have the opportunity to share and reflect their thoughts regarding the use of gratitude, self-compassion, and mindfulness.

Coping With Stress: Participants will be introduced to ways that will help prevent and manage stress, such as assessing stressors and identifying healthy coping techniques. There will be exercises that help regulate the fight or flight response, such as 4-7-8 breathing, and the five senses will be used as a means to expand their healthy coping skills for stress management.

Thriving Minds - A Workshop for Mental Wellbeing: Five recommendations repeatedly come up in research related to supporting good mental wellbeing. Join us to learn about those five recommendations, the science behind their impact on mental health, and tips and tricks to thrive while being a college student!

Sharpen You Focus: A Practical Toolbox for Growth and Success: More info coming soon.