Student distress and your role
Welcome. This course offers information about how to assist students in distress at *Learning Institution*. Because this can be emotional and challenging work for staff, the course also provides advice about how to look after yourself while supporting students.
In this first module, we’ll build an understanding of student distress and how you might become involved through your work at *Learning Institution*.
Throughout this course, we use the term ‘distress’ to refer to a range of upsetting or unpleasant thoughts and feelings that significantly impact a student’s state of wellbeing. Distress includes, but is much broader than, related terms like ‘mental health condition’. For example, a student might be distressed because of a negative life event – but not experiencing a mental health condition.
