Recognizing Student Distress and Crisis in a Digital World: Supporting Graduate Students as a Graduate Advisor

This workshop is for graduate advisors who would like to learn more about identifying signs that graduate students may be in distress or experiencing crisis and need additional support. This can be challenging when supporting students remotely so we will spend time discussing:

• unique challenges that graduate students face and the impact of those challenges;
• identifying behaviours or changes in behaviours in the digital world that may signal a student is in distress;
• levels of distress and support at each level
• how to offer support to a student you may be concerned about
• how to respond to others who are bringing concerns forward about other students or friends
• on and off campus resources
• taking care of yourself while supporting others digitally