CAPS Director Todd Sevig, the campus lead for student mental health, emphasizes the role of CAPS in identifying mental health problems in students, faculty and staff.
The Wellness Zone, established by the University’s Counseling and Psychological Services, officially opened last night in the Union. The Zone was created to promote emotional and mental health among students. The Zone’s services, which include chair massages throughout the day and special movie nights, are free for students.
Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and the Mental Health Work Group (MHWG) are reaching out to faculty and staff with the new resources to augment the in-person counseling services, workshops and training offered to the university community.
“Really in the last three years we’ve taken a very aggressive stance on suicide prevention, to be more active, to be more out there and to really get the message out that we don’t want any students to die by suicide,” Sevig said.
"The change is to be a little more 'out there' in terms of developing innovative ways to reach and engage the current generation of students, faculty and staff," says Todd Sevig, PhD, director of counseling and psychological services at the University of Michigan.
"There are a lot of notions that this is the way college has to be, this is the way I've planned on it to be my whole life," says Todd Sevig, a psychologist who directs counseling and psychology services for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Michigan. "When that starts to change, it's disconcerting."
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