When Students Seek Mental-Health Breaks
A recent Advice article in The Chronicle raised thoughtful questions about how colleges and individual faculty members should approach students' requests for mental-health days. The key premise is this: "In short, campus policies that offer mental-health breaks from class aim to solve one problem (student anxiety and stress) but often end up exacerbating another (student avoidance of social interaction, which tends to amplify anxiety)."

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Have you seen an increase in students asking to miss class for mental-health reasons?
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Does your college have a formal policy around wellness or mental-health days?
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If so, what is the policy?
When students miss class for mental-health reasons, how do you handle catching them up? Has that created extra work for you? 
Do you think taking mental-health days helps students? Why or why not?
The essay argues that "institutions and their students would be better off putting their time and support behind “active intervention” strategies to improve mental health." Do you agree or disagree, and why? What do you think your college could do to better support student mental health?
The author argues that one way to help students deal with anxiety is to create a classroom that is both compassionate and challenging. Have you tried such strategies? If so, how have they worked? 
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