PO555: Assessing Mental Health Needs Through Focus Groups: A Needs Assessment

  • PMD: 9
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 6: Promoting Social and Emotional Development

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. examine how the present studies methodology can be used and adapted at other universities, organizations, and K–12 schools;
  2. identify current student perceptions of mental health and mental health programming at a public midwestern university; and
  3. understand how student perceptions of mental health and mental health programming can be effectively identified.

Description

How can we identify students' perceptions of mental health and mental health programming? Examining the research methodology used at a public midwestern university and the study's findings.

Presenter(s)

Ashlee Flora, Miami University
Kyriaki A. Sarantopoulou, Miami University
Kate Hardy, Miami University
Daniel Whitford, Miami University

Contributor(s)

Kristy Brann

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