The Alabama Model of Student Health and Wellbeing is grounded in the fundamental understanding of student development and cultural competence. Understanding student development provides the knowledge that student growth and maturity is vital in establishing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle as well as ways to provide appropriate prevention and intervention.
Dimensions
Explore the many different dimensions of the Alabama Model and discover resources available to all UA students embarking on their wellness journey.
Developing and enhancing successful skills and intellectual abilities that lead to overall academic success.
Gaining awareness of individual interests, abilities, and experiences that lead to congruence with one’s chosen career path.
Establishing and maintaining knowledge and skills to develop and maintain financial security.
Developing and maintaining personal awareness, resilience, and understanding of one’s self and others that leads to personal satisfaction and rewarding relationships.
Establishing, enacting, and maintaining individual awareness and knowledge of the importance of physical activity and healthy lifestyle practices.
Developing and maintaining healthy and appropriate relationships with others that lead to a feeling of belonging and social connection.
Developing a process of existential understanding and growth that can help to inform and guide one’s meaning and experience of the world.
Assessment
To better understand the holistic nature of our student’s health and wellbeing and how to best serve them in the future, students are emailed an assessment on each area of wellness throughout the year. It is our hope that this collection of data will help indicate what areas we can improve to give students the resources and services needed to enhance their overall health and wellbeing.