Mental Health Screenings
Visit either of the links below to Learn about mental health and take an FREE anonymous screening to understand more about how you are feeling.
www.ulifeline.org/ptsem (click on "self evaluator" on the left-hand navigation)
www.halfofus.com (click on "check yourself" in the top right)
Self-Assessment Inventory
The Office of Student Counseling and The
Wholistic Health Initiative (a PTS student group) would like to invite
you to fill out an attached 80-question Self-Care and Wellness Assessment and
Goal-Setting Tool. Both are intended to help you assess your
strengths in four overlapping areas of wellness. After filling out the
80-question assessment, please use the Self-Care and Goal-Setting Tool
to take stock of what you are already doing that is working and to
prayerfully consider setting a few goals for the semester to help you
experience more balance and well-being. If you are married or engaged,
please encourage your partner to join you in developing a personal
self-care plan.
You may choose to review your responses with a
partner, friend, or small group and ask them to support your intentions
with prayer, encouragement, and periodic check-in conversations. You
may also want to meet with Nancy Schongalla-Bowman, Director of Student
Counseling or with Cathy Cook Davis, Director of Student Relations to
review your goals and progress in the fall, winter and spring. If you
find you are resisting your own good intentions or need to fine tune
your goals, you may want to meet more often. These meetings will be
confidential, and will not require disclosure of specific answers on the
assessment inventory. For more information or to set up a first
consultation, contact Nancy or Cathy.
In late April, you will receive a
certificate acknowledging your participation in a self-designed wellness
program for the year if you have completed both the 80-item Wellness
Assessment and the Goal-Setting Tool, and you have discussed goals and
strategies for personal change with one of the administrators named
above three times spaced through the academic year. The Certificate of
Participation can be shown to your mentors for ministry and will
acknowledge your initiative in developing healthy habits to enrich and
sustain you at PTS and in future ministry.
A brief word about
goal-setting...
Be sure your goals are your goals. If you set a
self-care intention which feels like a "should", you may be setting the
bar too high, too soon. Try "soaking" your "shoulds" in prayer to
soften them into goals you want to achieve. It is better self-care to
set doable goals than to reach too far out of your comfort zone and
become frustrated. Try to be affirming, persistent, but also forgiving
as you coach yourself toward your good intentions. You might want to
limit yourself to an average of no more than 2-3 goals per area. As
habits form and you feel energized, you can always add another goal or
two.
Inventory of Emotional/Spiritual Maturity
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality is a group designed with a mission to apply emotional health to biblical spirituality in
order to transform leaders, relationships, churches and organizations.
Their objectives are to:
Pioneer and research the integration of emotional health and
contemplative spirituality to discipleship and spiritual formation.
Improve the quality of leaders, relationships, churches and
organizations through books, seminars, personal interaction, and other
media.
Transform the quality of marriages, especially those of leaders,
Integrate the application of emotionally healthy spirituality to
the overcoming of racial, cultural, economic and gender barriers in
churches and organizations.
They've designed an inventory that allows spiritual leaders to get a sense of where they are a disciple of Jesus Christ, both as an individual and as a church. It will help you get a sense of whether your discipleship has touched the emotional components of your life and, if so, how much. The inventory, and other resources are available on their website: www.emotionallyhealthy.org. Their book The Emotionally Healthy Church will be available in the lending library soon.