UTD Resources
This UTD office offers free short-term therapy, group counseling, and 24/7 crisis support for students.
What is the Student Counseling Center (SCC)?
Around...percent of U.S. adults will experience a mental illness in their lifetime.
What is 50%?
The body’s physiological response to perceived threats or challenges is known as what?
What is the stress response or fight-or-flight response?
Research suggests that college students who get at least this many hours of sleep nightly report significantly better mental health outcomes.
What is 7–9 hours?
In Pixar’s Inside Out, which emotion runs the control panel when Riley becomes overwhelmed?
What is Sadness?
The UTD Student Counseling Center is located in...
What is the Student Services Building (SSB 4.600)?
These disorders are the most common mental health condition in the U.S.
What is Anxiety Disorders?
Define “cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).”
What is a therapy that helps people identify and change negative thought patterns and behaviors?
This physical symptom can occur due to chronic stress.
What are headaches, fatigue, insomnia, stomach issues?
This singer launched the “Rare Impact Fund” to support mental health resources for young people.
Who is Selena Gomez?
UTD offers a peer-led drop-in chat for students who want informal support. What’s this service called?
What is Let’s Talk?
Suicide is the ____ leading cause of death among college-aged individuals (ages 15–24).
What is the 2nd leading cause?
This term describes the inability to feel pleasure, often associated with depression.
What is anhedonia?
This type of exercise has been shown to release endorphins and reduce symptoms of depression.
What is aerobic exercise?
The TV show BoJack Horseman is often praised for its portrayal of what mental health condition(s)?
What is depression and addiction?
You can reach UTD’s 24/7 crisis hotline (After-Hours Crisis Line) by calling...
What is 972-UTD-TALK?
Approximately what percentage of college students report feeling overwhelming anxiety in the past year?
What is around 60–65%?
The psychological concept describing when people feel disconnected from themselves or reality is called what?
What is dissociation?
What is Time Management?
In 2020, this NBA player openly discussed taking a mental health break, helping destigmatize mental illness in sports.
Who is Kevin Love / DeMar DeRozan?
The Counseling Center offers this program to help with test anxiety and stress management (e.g., mindfulness, coping skills).
What are Wellness Workshops?
...percent of college students with mental health issues drop out before finishing their degree.
What is around 40–50%.
The Diathesis-Stress Model explains mental illness as a combination of what two factors.
What are genetic vulnerability and environmental stress?
Name one scientifically proven grounding technique for reducing anxiety in the moment.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 method, or deep breathing, or progressive muscle relaxation?
The term “main character energy” can sometimes reflect what psychological concept when taken to the extreme?
What is narcissism / egocentrism?