Made for Mustangs: Webinars, Articles, Videos
Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) offers mental health webinars regularly throughout the year. Check out our events on CP NOW to find more information about offerings this quarter! Previous seminars are organized by topic below. Feel free to use these recordings with your group, club, or organization! Access them using your Cal Poly ID.
1. Body Image and You (Watch|Slides)
2. CAPS & You: Learn About Counseling & Psychological Services (Watch|Slides)
3. Healing Childhood Trauma for Healthy Relationships (Watch|Slides)
4. Intuitive Eating Pt. 1 (Watch|Slides) & Intuitive Eating Pt. 2 (Watch|Slides)
5. Life Satisfaction (Watch|Slides|Happiness House Exercise)
6. Loss, Grieving, and Mourning (Watch|Slides)
7. Managing Homesickness (Watch|Slides)
8. Red Folder Training: Helping a Student in Crisis (Watch|Slides)
9. See Something, Say Something, Do Something: Responding to a Mental Health Crisis (Watch|Slides)
10. Stress Survival for Graduate Students (Watch)
11. Test Anxiety (Watch|Slides|Summary)
12. Special CH&W Panel on Sexual Health (Watch|Slides)
The following programs are self-guided workshops created by CAPS, Wellbeing, and other universities who adapted CAPS materials. You can learn more about our live Emotional Wellbeing Workshops here.
1. Recognition, Insight, and Openness focuses on teaching skills related to Mindfulness and ways to approach what you feel without judgment. Thank you to Florida International University for adapting our live workshop into this engaging self-guided workshop. You can also access just the mindfulness exercises here.
2. Refresh Sleep is a free, course created by Wellbeing which can be accessed through Canvas. This course focuses on helping you have better sleep by setting goals and learning practical skills to meet them.
3. COMING SOON: B.R.I.D.G.E (Building Relationship Intimacy and Dialogue Effectiveness) focuses on identifying ways to foster healthy relationships via self-monitoring, effective communication, and conflict resolution skills. You will be given practical exercises and activities to try during and in between each week of videos.
4. COMING SOON: Nourish is a workshop created to be helpful in learning how to recognize and better manage eating disorder symptoms. The main goals of Nourish are to allow students to develop more awareness of the impact of their eating disorder and to develop tools to begin to heal. Nourish is considered a supplement to individual therapy and focuses on providing psychoeducation about eating disorders.
Escaping the Bear: Using Your Body to Confuse Your Anxiety
A few of our counselor-faculty created videos to teach mindfulness skills. Check them out and share with your friends!
Recognition, Insight, Openness (Self-guided Mindfulness Workshop)
Recognition, Insight, Openness (just the Mindfulness Exercises)
Have you heard about our free app for Cal Poly Students that teaches mental health skills for a variety of mental health concerns? Learn more about Welltrack Boost and other apps Cal Poly students have endorsed as being helpful!
Curious about your mental health? Take this anonymous screener to identify areas to invest in, understand how your relationships are impacting you, and uncover concerns that can be addressed through mental health treatment.
If you want to talk with someone about your screening, or want to get connected to services, give us a call at 805-756-2511. We're also available at that number 24 hours a day for crisis support.
Learn more about our services through the How to Cal Poly podcast. (Listen)
