4357 - Emotional Labor and Mental Health

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Description

This workshop will host discussion on strategies for staying mentally healthy and fostering positive emotional connections in graduate school. Attendees will acquire tools for successfully providing and receiving support, nurturing connections between peers, as well as learning how to circumvent the perpetuation of particular groups taking on a disproportionate burden of providing emotional labor. Emphasis will be placed on how to develop community within your cohort or program as a way to build support networks. The presider will introduce the panelists, beginning the workshop with some remarks on the sociological underpinnings of mental health in graduate school. The remainder of the panel will focus on sharing strategies panelists employ to stay healthy, discuss the importance of social support, and if comfortable, the various challenges and traumas that arise during graduate school. This portion of the session will be guided by questions from those in attendance.

Sub Unit

• Student Forum Sessions

Session Organizers

• Joseph Reynolds van der Naald, City University of New York-The Graduate Center

• Kati Barahona-López, University of California-Santa Cruz

Presider

• Uriel Serrano, University of California-Santa Cruz

Panelists

• Claudia Maria Lopez, California State Long Beach

• Simone Alexandra Kolysh, City University of New York-The Graduate Center

• Shaonta Allen, University of Cincinnati