Wellness isn't one-size-fits-all. FIND YOUR STEP.
Our WELLNESS MAP Initiative, a whole-campus initiative guided by Catholic Christian Anthropology for the dignity of the whole person, is an adaptable sequential model that prioritizes the support of all students, not just those at the forefront. This model is not a clinical panacea or a trademarked cure-all program. It offers pathways towards wellness, utilizing a variety of resources, ensuring that everyone can meet their unique needs.
If you have any needs or questions, please get in touch with us at counseling@udallas.edu.
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The University of Dallas constantly seeks ways to prepare students for life, work, and society in a problematic, changing, and challenging world. UD has a pathway for every student.
WELLNESS MAPPING STEPS are a collaborative approach to thinking and connecting in a community. The model provides support and encouragement, addresses needs, and allows us to help each other thrive. From Step 01 to Step 08, the model addresses proactive measures toward more acute interventions, autonomous activities towards increasing interventions, and public wellness towards more specialized individual care. Understanding the steps empowers students, families, faculty, and staff to empathetically and effectively map students through hardships toward flourishing.
FIND YOUR STEP. Wellness is not one-size-fits-all. Your path may be something other than 1 through 8. You may need to jump in straight to number 7 or number 3. Maybe you’re good on 2 and 4, don’t really need 5, but need more help with 3… the idea here is to get you to where it would be most helpful for you to be.
In a campus setting, a full-spectrum wellness model can help address issues related to access. It can also address stigma by recruiting the entire community to encourage healthy options for individuals. Individuals who may not have sought traditional mental health services can more easily access support with various services, resources, and campus and community connections. All students may feel more comfortable accessing care at a level that is appropriate for their specific individual needs. Our Wellness Mapping Steps are designed to address the strain on mental health resources by providing a more efficient use of resources. By offering lower-intensity interventions as a first step, we can reduce the demand for more intensive services, allowing mental health professionals to focus their efforts on those who need them most. This approach ensures that every resource is utilized effectively, instilling confidence in the model's effectiveness.
Our Wellness Mapping Steps are designed to alleviate mental health resources' strain by using pre-existing resources more efficiently. By offering lower-intensity interventions as a first step, we can reduce the demand for more intensive services, allowing mental health professionals to focus their efforts on those who need them most. This approach ensures that every resource is utilized effectively, instilling confidence in the model's effectiveness.
A basic wellness screen can help you identify potential health concerns and points of improvement and recognize the good points you already possess. It's a proactive way to ensure that you're taking care of your overall well-being, which is especially important during the demanding and stressful college years. Below is your free and confidential tool to enhance and improve your well-being through self-awareness and tailored feedback.
As a principal foundation of the Wellness Map, Purposeful Intentionality is a concept that involves a process and effort to be consciously aware and deliberate in one's actions and thoughts and discerning through decisions. This concept, which may be new to some, is crucial for individuals to promote focus, clarity, and goal-directed behaviors. It is a psychological tendency to derive meaning from experiences and possesses a sense of goal-directedness that guides behaviors that help support overall wellness. This intentional approach allows individuals to be more present, focused, and purpose-driven, leading to enhanced cognitive performance, personal growth, and overall well-being.
Our current situation (temporary) is a dynamic mix of external factors from our environment (persons, places, things that affect us) and internal factors - our cognitions (how we think), what we do or don’t do (behaviors), and emotions (how we feel). We can’t always control our environment or feelings, but we can better control our thoughts and behaviors. The direction we set our feet, how we listen to our emotions, and where we lead our thoughts reinforce a negative or active cycle.
**Life isn’t always this easy. If you need additional support or help, contact us for further assistance.
By changing the way we think, allowing our emotions to guide us rather than control us, improving prosocial interpersonal relationships, doing what we can do, advocating for our needs, and living with purpose (Purposeful Intentionality), we can gradually but significantly improve our mental well-being. This process may take time, but it offers hope and a sense of control over our lives.
Purposeful Intentionality is not a new theory of psychology. Instead, it combines the common factors from various theories shown to help individuals over centuries of psychological research, ancient wisdom, philosophy, and spiritual well-being.
To effectively manage Purposeful Intentionality, you must first have a purpose. The question, “Why am I here,” as an existential exploration, is not quickly or succinctly answered. Everyone here wants to complete formal education for some end goal— “A purpose.” Sometimes, this is a goal and not “THE purpose.” Sometimes, your purpose is to find a purpose. Sometimes, your purpose is just getting through the next day. Being well is an internal choice and disposition, not an external pressure, expectation, or state of being. More on this in Step 3.
Whatever your motivation, the Wellness Map with Purposeful Intentionality can help you move in the right direction. We will introduce some considerations, reflections, or action points with each Step, for you to take your wellness to the next level of wellness.
To start, a basic wellness screen can help you identify potential health concerns and points of improvement and recognize the good points you already possess. It's a proactive way to ensure that you're taking care of your overall well-being, which is especially important during the demanding and stressful college years. Below is your free and confidential tool to enhance and improve your well-being through self-awareness.
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The WELLNESS MAP Initiative stands as a beacon of holistic support within our campus community, grounded in the profound principles of Catholic Christian Anthropology. It embraces diversity and individuality, recognizing that wellness is a journey unique to each person with Purposeful Intentionality. Rather than heralding a one-size-fits-all solution, this initiative provides a community-based framework for exploration and empowerment, offering diverse pathways toward wellness. By prioritizing the dignity of every individual and fostering a culture of inclusivity, tenants of the University of Dallas, as a Catholic university for independent thinkers, the model endeavors to cultivate a campus environment where all members can thrive, embodying the essence of holistic well-being.
We’re here to walk alongside you as you take your step toward wellness. Whether self-led, supported by the community, accessing clinical or directive support, or looking off-campus, UD is here for you.
Contact our Case Manager for more support: counseling@udallas.edu • 972-721-4045.