Zenstudies: Making a Healthy Transition to Higher Education - Module 2 - Workshop 2. When the Blues Take Over - Participant's Workbook: Targeted-Selective Prevention Program

By Diane Marcotte, Carole Viel, Marie-Laurence Paré and 2 more

The Zenstudies: Making a Healthy Transition to Higher Education program aims to prevent depression and anxiety among first-year students in post-secondary school. It includes three modules, or prevention levels. Module 2, presented here, is a targeted-selective prevention program. It includes two workshops, one for anxiety management and one for depression prevention for self-referred students, taught by a team of teachers and specialists. Participants in these small-group workshops will have volunteered to take this training.

This participant’s workbook is for Module 2 and its two targeted-selective prevention workshops. “Targeted selective” means that the students participating have all decided of their own volition to sign up, after learning about it at their school or following a recommendation from a teacher or counsellor. The workshop When Fear Takes Hold looks at symptoms of anxiety, and When the Blues Take Over looks at depression.

This participant’s workbook is for you to use during the workshop to complete activities; it will also be a good reference for techniques you can practice on your own afterward.

The online component that accompanies this guide can be found on the website of the Research Laboratory on School-Based Mental Health at the Université du Québec à Montréal’s Psychology Department (www.labomarcotte.ca/en).

We hope that after participating in this program, you’ll feel better equipped for a successful transition to post-secondary life.

Published in English.

• Language: English
• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Release date: Aug 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9780776629643

Diane Marcotte

Diane Marcotte est titulaire d’un doctorat en psychologie clinique de l’Université d’Ottawa et dirige le Laboratoire de recherche sur la santé mentale des jeunes en contexte scolaire de l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle pratique la psychothérapie et participe à la formation des psychologues depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans. Elle a publié plus d’une centaine d’articles scientifiques, livres et chapitres dont le programme de prévention de la dépression Pare-Chocs pour les adolescents. Elle s’intéresse à l’émergence de la dépression et l’anxiété pendant les transitions scolaires et au développement et à l’évaluation de programmes de prévention.  Diane Marcotte holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Ottawa and heads the youth mental health research laboratory in an educational context at Université du Québec à Montréal. Marcotte has been practicing psychotherapy and training psychologists for over 25 years. She has published over 100 scientific articles, books and chapters, including the depression prevention program for teens entitled Pare-Chocs. The subject of her research is the emergence of depression and anxiety during educational transitions and the development and evaluation of prevention programs. 

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