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This paper highlights the development and evaluation of the Professor Hippo-on-Campus Student Mental Health Education Program, a mental health literacy intervention for post-secondary faculty and staff.

This systematic review and meta-analysis seeks to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions for mental health outcomes in post-secondary students. Compared to a passive control, mindfulness-based interventions appear to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and perceived stress post-intervention.

In this MA thesis, using a feminist intersectional case study approach, the author examines how the identities of student activists influence their activism and advocacy on food insecurity on campus at Lakehead University.

Although all students experienced novel stressors during the pandemic, students without preexisting mental health concerns reported greater increases in social and academic isolation, relative to students with preexisting mental health concerns.

This study engaged in online document analysis to (a) locate the instructor’s position within student mental health support frameworks across Canadian colleges and universities, and (b) understand how their role is exactly defined and described.

This paper proposes and discusses a reconceptualized understanding of the post-secondary instructor as a critical link in the chain of student support and wellbeing. The author suggests that instructors can supplement or facilitate a number of initiatives in higher education to support student mental health.

This study describes the psychometric testing of the Mental Health Continuum (MHC) model among undergraduates of three Canadian universities. The MHC is a tool that consists of 6 items to guide students the way to attend to, or monitor, signs and behavior indicators of their mental health status and suggest appropriate actions to improve their mental health.

In this MA thesis from the University of British Columbia, utilizing 12 in-depth interviews with Black students, results show that Black students navigate instances of everyday racism on campus and in the classroom. Consequently, Black students experience negative mental health effects, forms of alienation, and social isolation.

The Cost of COVID is a mixed methods study exploring the social and emotional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on families, youth, and urban Indigenous People. The present analysis was completed using a subset of qualitative data including Spryng.io micronarrative stories from students in college and university, as well as in-depth interviews from service providers providing services to students.

This scoping review aimed to investigate the outcomes of animal-assisted therapy for college students. Among the 37 publications that met the study's eligibility criteria, results suggested that there are statistically significant positive changes to college students' mental health as a result of these animal-assisted therapies.