Coronavirus and international student mental wellbeing webinar

The Covid-19 outbreak is placing the international students in our care under increased stress. This webinar will help you look after students in your care.

Learning outcomes

• Improve our understanding of how mental health issues can be triggered or exacerbated by the coronavirus situation
• Scan for and acknowledge other triggers such as homesickness, culture shock, examination pressure, existing underlying mental health issues and exposure to a perceived hostile environment
• Look at how to recognise and signpost potential mental health issues and triggers in students and staff
• Examine common thinking errors which can exacerbate distress, and tips for reframing them
• Develop an understanding of positive psychology as an evidence-based framework for promoting wellbeing
• Look at examples of positive psychology interventions, how they can boost wellbeing and how they promote mental health and resilience
• Create tailored action plans, using the PERMAH framework

Register your place

Thursday 12 March | 16:00 - 17:00

Ruth Hughes will share her expertise on international student welfare from 16:00 for approximately 45 minutes. Following this, the English UK team will be available to answer more general questions.

• Register for the free coronavirus and international student mental wellbeing webinar

If you cannot join live, we will record this session and share details on our Covid-19 page, our regularly updated web page with links and advice for UK ELT centres.

About the speaker: Ruth Hughes

Ruth Hughes is a coach, educator, consultant, and professional speaker in the fields of coaching psychology, positive psychology, positive education, culture shock and international student wellbeing. After 30years as a teacher and senior leader, Ruth completed an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology at UEL, founding her company, Curious Human in 2018. She combines lecturing/tutoring at UEL and ICE, University of Cambridge, with speaking at venues like ICEF Berlin; the English UK Academic Conference, London; the LLE Conference, Bristol; The Positive Psychology Symposium at New Bucks University; and the British Psychological Society SFCG International Conference.