Student stress, well-being
A talk entitled 'Stress and student well-being: The Scottish experience' will be held on March 18 from 3.30 to 5 p.m. at the KSU Common Room, Student House.
During the talk, Vivien Swanson, a chartered health psychologist and senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Scotland, will review recent evidence on the student health and wellbeing, and present data from empirical work examining factors which influence both social and academic adjustment to university in the Scottish context.
The talk is being organised by the European Centre for Educational Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health, the KSU health policy committee and the Malta Medical Students Association.
Dr Swanson's visit is part of the bilateral agreement signed between the University of Stirling's Psychology department and Department of Psychology and the European Centre for Educational Resilience at the University of Malta.
The public is welcome to attend.
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Pule' Carmel
Mar 7th 2010, 19:39
The highest levels of stress that I ever faced was when I had to go on board ships whose enginecontrols edured failure and alone I had to face the music and diagnose the problem in the fastest possible time.Some of these ships included ferries of theGOZOCHANNEL. Thank God that is all over now.
Perhaps the highest stress that I ever faced was inNewcastleUKwhen I used to go down coal mines to see how they do it .After excavating the coal face which was about 6 feet high , the ceiling which was supported by hydraulic props under the SLATE ceiling, came down behind us to refill the space where the extracted coal existed. I always thought that they fill the mines with some debris to replace the coal extractted. No it is not like that . The coalminers have to face it all by pulling the hydraulic props forward and the unsupported ceiling would eventually fall down behind the miners. I tell you that is more stressfull than when working at the dockyard. I used to stay in the close quarters of submarines where the hatch was sudddenly shutdown and so were the diesel engines!! My poor Ears!!
Pule' Carmel
Mar 7th 2010, 18:33
Stress is to be found in our way of life.ThankGod that the last two generations did not go through the stress associated withWAR. Learning to live with stress must be given in small dozes but given it must be.I would never advocate doing away with examinations as an examination does not only test for knowledge but how one handles stress and yet give a good performance. There are so many professions whose members must be trained to work under stress and yet not fail. There are so many to chose from but may I just point out one example mentioned in this newspaper in the most Emailed and Most commented articles. INJURED CREWMAN RESCUED IN TRICKY OPERATION. To handle the gusty conditions and terrible situations in a force 8 storm, the pilot and the crew must face stress. I can imagine that pilot with his hand on the collective and cyclic pitch while his feet are on the directional control to enable one of the crewmen to be lowered by wire on an area the size of an old fashioned handcarechief. Students must introduce stress in various ways, just do not exceed what you can face, but face it.
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