Promoting Mental Health in the Transition from College to the Workplace
Title: Promoting Mental Health in the Transition from College to the Workplace
Time Frame: 12/2/2016-11/30/2017
Funder: The Jed Foundation (JED)
Grant: JED Fdn/Promoting Mental Health Trans
Personnel: Kathleen Biebel, Ph.D., Leonard Levin, M.A. Laura Golden, B.A., & Raphael Mizrahi, B.S.
Description: The transition from college to the workplace can be a high-risk time fraught with emotional/developmental challenges and stressors that can lead or contribute to mental health problems such as depression. Graduating students who have a positive history of depression may be at particularly high risk of relapse. Moreover, individuals without a history of emotional challenges may experience a first episode of depression as they attempt to navigate this potentially stressful transition. This project has two aims: (1) to forward our knowledge as a field by developing a rich understanding of the emotional needs of students during the transition from college into the workforce, and (2) to utilize the insights gleaned from Aim 1 to develop a comprehensive framework including a set of recommended practices and considerations that describe how colleges can best emotionally prepare students for the transition out of college and into the workplace.
