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RCS students living with mental health disabilities

Dr Rachel Drury

Phase 1 Research literature and RCS overview Phase 2 The Student Voice Phase 3 The Staff Voice

Phase 1

The age of peak onset for mental and substance use disorders articulates with the age at which most young people are in Higher Education

(Reavley and Jorm, 2010)

In both cases, 75% experience onset before the age of 24

are universally common amongst undergraduate students

(Nerdrum et al., 2006, Al-Qaisy, 2011, Demirbatir et al., 2012)

they are as prevalent among university students as same-aged non-students

(Blanco et al., 2008, Hunt and Eisenberg, 2010)

Conservatoire-specific

Phase 1

depression and anxiety rates amongst music students are higher than those of other undergraduates

(Spahn et al., 2004, Demirbatir et al., 2012)

music students have higher levels of stress, depression and anxiety than medical students

(Demirbatir et al., 2012)

Percentage of RCS students with a disability disclosing a mental health disability at any point in their studies

% of total RCS student population

10 20 30 40

Academic Year

2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/2016

30.6 30.8 22.6 16.0 8.5

The percentage of RCS students disclosing a mental health disability in relation to overall student populations

% of total RCS student population

5 10 15 20 25 30

Academic Year

2011/2012 2012/2013 2013/2014 2014/2015 2015/2016

8.5% 8.2% 5.5% 3.5% 1.8% 27.8% 26.5% 24.4% 22.1% 21.5%

Total RCS student population with a disability Students disclosing a mental health disability

Phase 2 The Student Voice

Phase 3 The Staff Voice

THEMES

Environment Timing of intervention Programme Structures Counselling services Balance of care Expectation s of staff Staff workload Phase 3 The Staff Voice

“I think it’s a tough profession, and I think that sometimes … I’m sure it’s true in every conservatoire environment, even your best might not be good enough to do what you thought you came here to do” [Staff D]

Environment

“… we deal with problems when they are at crisis point as opposed to being able to put in place sensible and instrumental measures at an earlier point that can really make an impact” [Staff A]

Timing of intervention

“I think for a PTHP member of staff where this is a very small component of a portfolio career or it’s in addition to an

• rchestral job .. erm … then just the

nature of how they engage with the building is quite different, and actually you could argue appropriately so because they’re not necessarily, to be blunt, being paid for that extra level of engagement, but then how do we ensure that students understand the distinction?” [Staff A]

Expectations

• f staff

Staff workload

“[…] when there’s such a big cohort, no matter how hard you try to be proactive and know them all, inevitably, you just don’t. So it’s a big leap of faith for them to actually come to us and say “I’m really struggling at the moment”” [Staff E]

Programme Structures

We are looking to:

Roll out student support service for transitions 20/40 students and those using the RCS at weekends Offer a variety of therapies and approaches for students Make MHD awareness training a core part of the RCS curriculum for students Offer comprehensive awareness training for all staff

Thank you

Dr Rachel Drury: r.drury@rcs.ac.uk

References

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ATKINS, L., WILLIAMON, A. & GOEBL, W. Occupational health and wellbeing in the UK conservatoire sector: staff

• perspectives. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2013, 2013. European

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References

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