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Supporting university students with a mental health condition

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There is an increasing prevalence of university students who need mental health support and university staff benefit from training on this topic. This course explores this phenomenon, drawing on an Open University study on how staff (tutors) can support students with a mental health condition, and considers both what staff and institutions can do to improve student mental wellbeing.

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After studying this course, you should be able to:

have an insight into the impact having a mental health condition can have on a student's ability to study
understand what skills are needed by a tutor to support a student with a mental health condition
understand what support some students who have a mental health condition feel they would benefit from to keep them studying.

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First Published: 04/09/2025

Updated: 04/09/2025

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Cristina Juliana Cadenas 6 May 2026 7:06PM

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As someone with mental health crisis, medically diagnosed, the support tackled in this course is great. Boundaries were not talked about that much but the whole point of the course was tackled. I dropped out of college because my mental health was getting worse, there's no one in school that i can talk about it. There may be a guidance counselor but its different. I need and want someone who can definitely help me with my worries-- that's why we need more tutors/staffs/professors who can help us with this. With boundaries of course.

I met a lot of people who's not clinically diagnosed but their mental health was declining more than mine and I know that if someone from school or wherever it may be was willing to listen, maybe the weight of their problems would lessen.

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Dawn Quinn 25 April 2026 9:04PM

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This needs to be more in depth with regards to boundaries

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