The Dimensions of Wellness |
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Financial wellness is an intricate balance of the mental, spiritual and physical aspects of money.
Environmental wellness recognizes responsibility to your environment, ranging from immediate surroundings to the world.
Occupational wellness is the ability to get personal fulfillment from your jobs while maintaining balance.
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Emotional Wellness and Mental Health |
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Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. Mental health is essential at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
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Emotional wellness is an awareness and acceptance of a wide range of feelings in oneself and others. An emotionally healthy person understands their limitations.
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Intellectual wellness involves ongoing learning and the ability to open one's mind to new ideas and experiences. Sharing ideas with people from different backgrounds helps us advance in all aspects of life.
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Social/cultural wellness is the ability to connect with other people in our world. This dimension is expressed through developing and maintaining friendships, family relationships and more.
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How to Practice Self-Care |
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- Get professional help if needed (there's nothing wrong with seeing a therapist/counselor)
- Spend time with loved ones and friends
- Stay positive
- Leave one's comfort zone
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- Get physically active
- Eat a healthy diet
- Enjoy a hobby
- Get quality sleep
- Journal
- Help others
- Develop coping skills
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Mental health stigma is a prejudicial attitude and/or discriminating behavior directed toward individuals with mental health issues due to the psychiatric label they have been given. How can we eliminate stigma? By imparting knowledge about mental health issues and challenging existing negative stereotypes.
Ways we can reduce mental health stigma:
- Educate yourself on the facts.
- Choose words carefully (e.g., avoid using terms like 'OCD', 'crazy' and 'depressing').
- Talk openly about mental health.
- Encourage equality between physical and mental illness.
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Show compassion for those with mental illness—choose empowerment over shame.
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Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) |
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Students seek the assistance of CAPS for various reasons. Whether it is adjusting to college life, depression/anxiety, body-image concerns, trauma or something else, it is an honor and privilege to help students during their times of struggle.
CAPS, located on the first floor of the Orr Center, offers several services and delivery methods to USI students. There are three individual scheduled therapy options (virtual and in-person), plus 24/7 support through student-peer support, emotional health support on-demand and health coaching.
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Physical wellness includes appropriate exercise and proper nutrition and responsible decisions about sex, alcohol, tobacco and drug use.
The University Health Center provides medical services and health-related information to students, faculty and staff. It is located on the lower level of the Health Professions Center.
The Student Wellness Office is located in Room 219 in the Recreation, Fitness and Wellness Center (RFWC). Student Wellness develops, implements and coordinates health and wellness programs for the University community. They partner with campus departments/organizations and local community agencies to provide wellness outreach events throughout the year.
The RFWC offers almost 100,000 square feet of recreational space.
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Spiritual Wellness and Religious Life |
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Spiritual wellness is the process of looking within yourself and exploring values and beliefs to establish peace and harmony in life. It is not necessary to find this through organized religion.
Religious Life provides religious guidance and worship opportunities for students, faculty and staff. The Religious Life office is on the corner of O'Daniel and Clark Lanes. The department's goal is to get the word out about ways to stay active in your faith life while at USI.
Services offered:
- Retreats, fellowship, Bible studies, worship Mass, service opportunities and educational programming.
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Emerging Leaders Applications Due September 24th |
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Work on renovation, expansion of RFWC underway |
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Emerging Leaders offers USI first-year students the opportunity to develop new leadership skills, make new friends and contribute to the USI community. Weekly sessions are held 3-4:30 p.m. on Mondays during the Spring Semester. Applications are due by Sunday, September 24 at USI.edu/Leadership.
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Drive past the Recreation, Fitness and Wellness Center (RFWC) on campus and you'll notice construction on the building is in full swing. Work—which will include updates to existing space in the RFWC and the addition of office space for several departments across campus—will continue through the year and is expected to be completed in 2024. Learn more about the project
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UNIV101 New Harmony Experience | September 12 |
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UNIV101 students are expected to attend the New Harmony trip on Tuesday, September 12 as part of their course requirements. Your regular classes will not meet that day to allow you to visit Historic New Harmony for a portion of the day to learn about the town’s origins and its connection to USI. A pizza meal will be served in The Loft directly before or after your assigned trip time that day.
Please consult with your UNIV 101 instructor on specific details of the day. For more information about this event, visit USI.edu/hnhexperience
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Sexual Assault Prevention and Alcohol Edu Trainings |
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Completing Sexual Assault Prevention and Alcohol Edu trainings are required for all first-year students and all student-athletes. We also encourage all our students to complete the training as our policies and processes have changed to be consistent with federal guidelines. Students should have received an email invitation in their USI Eagles email account.
Students can access these trainings by clicking on the link in the email invitation or by logging into their myUSI account and clicking on the Everfi app, a giant white E in a field of orange (please see picture).
Students should complete the trainings before September 29. Completing the training will ensure that a hold is not placed on a student's account. Holds will prevent students from registering for Spring and Summer 2024 classes.
Please help us to keep our campus community safe and healthy. Completing these trainings are one way to achieve this goal.
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Campus Office Information
Check out the following offices for new student and campus information:
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Screagle in the Spotlight - Emma A. |
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Besides being an OL, I am the Service Coordinator for Delight Ministries, I am apart of Honors, Student Ambassadors, Campus Outreach, and I work at the Housing and Residence Life. |
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