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Learn About Mental Health

Mental health looks and feels different for everyone and can be influenced by many factors. It can change due to life events, choices, behaviours, or the impact of wider systemic factors—both in and out of our control.  

Why Mental Health Literacy Matters

Mental health literacy means understanding how to care for your mental health and support others. It is an important tool to have in your toolbox when it comes to building mental health. The more we develop mental health literacy, the better able we are to support ourselves, support others, and reduce stigma, creating a more resilient and caring community.  

Improving mental health literacy skills can help you: 

  • Understand how to obtain and maintain mental health
  • Recognize your signs of distress as an individual
  • Feel empowered and educated to take control
  • Enhance your help-seeking skills
  • Identify mental disorders and decrease stigma

Learn more by watching this video about mental health literacy here.
 

How to Build Mental Health Literacy

It takes time to develop the skills and and to recognize the tools and strategies that work best for you. Below are some ways to start developing your mental health literacy skills.

New – The Mental Health Continuum

Mental health is a continuum, and it changes throughout our lives, as do the actions that support it. This tool can help you recognize the signs of declining mental health and what actions to take to find support.

Intersectional Approaches

Learn how overlapping identities can impact mental health experiences. HR's Workplace Wellbeing team has developed a facilitator's guide and infographics to support mental health literacy education from a place of inclusion and diversity. 

Thrive 5

Learn about research-backed ways to support your mental health with the Thrive 5 and Thrive 5+.

Workshops & Training

UBC employees can access the following workshops at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.

UBC Wellbeing

2260 West Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada
E-mail ubc.wellbeing@ubc.ca
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We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

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