Leadership Wellness and Mental Health Concerns in Higher Education

  • 9h 36m
  • Amy Tureen, Cynthia J. Alexander
  • IGI Global
  • 2022

Wellbeing is foundational to citizens’ individual and collective ability to acknowledge, address, and alleviate ongoing struggles, shared risks, and the unprecedented challenges of our time. A holistic focus on wellness across campus communities is timely and important, given that national and global justice movements are calling upon post-secondary institutions to address the ways in which education systems have been reproducing dominant narratives, reinforcing systemic discrimination, and retaliating against education leaders who work to disrupt structural inequalities.

Leadership Wellness and Mental Health Concerns in Higher Education offers diverse perspectives about whether and how campus leaders around the world are sustaining and advancing health and wellness in unprecedented times and amplifies diverse voices in the exploration of how to advance individual and collective wellbeing in higher education. Covering a wide range of topics such as stress management and burnout, this reference work is ideal for academicians, scholars, researchers, administrators, practitioners, instructors, and students.

About the Author

Cynthia J. Alexander is a political scientist and policy analyst who has been working with and for Indigenous peoples for forty years. She is the co-author of a book about multi-stakeholder consensusbased decision-making, A Stake in the Future: Redefining the Canadian Mineral Industry (UBC, 1997), co-authored with Dr. Mary Louise McAllister. She is the co-editor of Digital Democracy: Policy and Politics in the Wired World with Dr. Leslie Pal (Oxford, 1998). She served as the academic principal on a community-driven initiative to create a bilingual (Inuktitut and English) website, including an interactive film (www.InuitQ.ca), to illustrate how ancient and ever-evolving Inuit knowledge and ways of being inform contemporary policy issues. She has collaborated with the Mi’kmaq First Nation for almost twenty years, including on the creation of an historic memorandum of agreement to create a welcoming and safe space for Indigenous students and community members on her campus. As a yoga and pilates instructor, she has been collaborating with a Mi’kmaq cultural teacher to create restorative spaces for Indigenous communities and for university campus members. As a settler scholar, Alexander continues to work to decolonize herself.

Amy Tureen (she/her/hers) holds a BA in English from Scripps College (Claremont, CA), a MA in Gender & Cultural Studies from Simmons University (Boston, MA), and a MLIS from Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA). She has been an academic librarian since 2010 and her research focuses on the intersection of diversity, wellness, and leadership in both academic librarianship and higher education more broadly.

In this Book

  • A Matter of “Care-Full” Consideration—Introducing Wellness and Leadership in Higher Education during a Time of Uncertainty and Unrest
  • Barriers to Work Wellness among Academic Staff in Higher Education Institutions
  • Psychological Barriers to Workplace Wellness in Young Married Women in Indian Higher Education
  • Promoting Campus Wellness Through the Lens of Mental Health Counselors
  • Faith as a Component of Well-Being—Implications for Higher Education
  • University Crisis Leadership Through Caring—An Examination of Students' Perceptions in the Aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria
  • Wellness and Leadership in Higher Education—Leadership Styles and Organizational Well-Being in Zambian Colleges of Education
  • Identifying Burnout Syndrome in a Private University in the State of Puebla, Mexico—Facing the Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • The Journey of Balancing Life and Work While Managing Stress
  • Am I Crazy?—Self-Reflexive Learning from Difficult Emotional Experience
  • Living Faithfully—Laugh, Love, Learn – Faith as a Component of Wellness
  • Core Curriculum—A Breathing Space for Wellness to Sustain Decolonizing Leadership
  • Virtual Chat and Chew—Radical Self-Care for BIPOC Information Professionals
  • Using Virtual Cohorts for Wellness, Problem-Solving, and Leadership Development
  • Mutually Beneficial Mentoring for Mental Wellness and Personal Growth
  • Compilation of References
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