Kristen McClary Source 4

Step 1 

 

A) Myers, Jane E. "Wellness as the paradigm for counseling and development: The possible future." Counselor Education and Supervision 30.3 (1991): 183-193. 

 

B) What do wellness programs reveal about institutional efforts to address issues of student mental health and what are the contours of the relation between wellness programs and student mental health? 

 

C) Before: I chose to stick with the same questions on this source because I still feel as if it applies the best. I Picked source 4 entitled, “Wellness as the paradigm, for counseling and development: The possible future,” because I wanted to know how wellness is actually defined. I was also curious as to how they plan to fix the problems of these wellness programs in the future.  

During: Source 4 seemed to give the definition of wellness differently than the health definition. I found this to be an interesting point of view because I see wellness as being a part of health. However, they defined health as the absence of illness and Wellness is defined as the quest for human functioning that involves the mind, body, and spirit. This is confusing to me because some people refer to people as being “mentally ill” when they have poor mental health. It was also interesting to me that this source believes that health educators are claiming to provide something that they do not actually provide in wellness programs. 

After: I feel as this source is lining up with what all of my other sources have to say. I feel as if it’s starting to confirm to me more that these wellness programs are not helping students the way they claim to do.   

 

Step 2 

In source 4 it started off talking how wellness is not a new thing, it’s just become a bigger topic than it was 20 years ago. The source then goes on to talk about the difference between wellness and health. Health is defined as the absence of illness and Wellness is defined as the quest for human functioning that involves the mind, body, and spirit. Then the source goes onto talking about how some councilors have adapted into the new wellness standard, but some absolutely refuse too. Lastly, this article continues on by saying that the wellness programs are not nearly where they need to be to help people with their poor mental health.  

The main thing that stuck to me in this article is how the define wellness differently than health. I am almost confused by it because isn’t wellness apart of health? Another interesting thing in this article was that they stated that some councilors were willing to adapt to the new needs of people’s mental health, but others weren’t willing to adapt. I find that almost disturbing that councilors are not changing their ways to benefit people the best way they can in wellness programs.  

This source is similar to source number 2 and 3. That is because all the of the sources agree that wellness programs aren’t where they are supposed to be in order to help students with their mental health. All three of the source also seem to be wanting a change for these programs and they are stating why they think there should be a change. They show that there needs to be a change from statistics that show that poor mental health is a rising issue.  

Overall, I feel as if I still need to put together what this all means about institutions in general. Along with what the institutions need to do to better their wellness programs. In my next source I think it would be beneficial for my research to see what will happen if these institutions continue to lack in the helping students. Also, a great question to be asked is how institutions could change this problem.