
Physical wellness pertains to maintaining a healthy body through regular physical activity/movement, adequate sleep, healthy food choices, and avoiding unhelpful habits.
ScarletWell provides impactful programs, resources, and opportunities that support both wellness and well-being for students, faculty, and staff alike, based on the 8 Dimensions of Wellness model. The model provides a comprehensive framework for promoting mental health and success among college students, staff, and faculty by recognizing the various interconnected aspects of life. Below you can discover resources, practical tools, and insights designed to support your journey across the 8 Dimensions of Wellness.
Physical wellness pertains to maintaining a healthy body through regular physical activity/movement, adequate sleep, healthy food choices, and avoiding unhelpful habits.
Intellectual wellness focuses on lifelong learning, stimulating mental activities, and expanding knowledge and skills through education, creativity, and critical thinking.
Emotional wellness centers on understanding and managing emotions, coping with stress, building resilience, and fostering positive mental health.
Financial wellness encompasses managing finances effectively, budgeting, saving, and planning for future financial security.
Social wellness involves building and maintaining meaningful relationships, fostering a sense of belonging, and engaging in positive social interactions.
Spiritual wellness involves exploring personal beliefs, values, and purpose, finding meaning and inner peace, and connecting with something greater than oneself.
Occupational wellness emphasizes finding satisfaction and fulfillment in one's work, academic pursuits or volunteer work, balancing responsibilities, and striving for personal and professional growth.
Environmental wellness involves being and feeling physically safe, in safe and clean surroundings. It entails cultivating awareness and appreciation for the environment, promoting sustainability, and creating healthy living spaces.
The 8 Dimensions of Wellness model is crucial for college students, staff, and faculty for several reasons:
The 8 Dimensions of Wellness model provides a comprehensive, holistic framework for promoting mental health and success among college students, staff, and faculty by recognizing the various interconnected aspects of life.
The physical dimension of wellness involves the maintenance of a healthy body, good physical health habits, good nutrition and exercise, and obtaining needed health care.
A reminder of the keystone habits to support physical wellness.
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Tobacco and Nicotine Products
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The intellectual dimension of wellness involves lifelong learning, applying what you learned, and sharing what you have learned.
Activities that use creative abilities and expand knowledge.
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Develop team, critical, creative, systematic and thinking skills for professional success.
Emotional wellness involves the ability and skills to express feelings, enjoy life, adjust to emotional challenges, cope with stress, and recover from traumatic life experiences. Emotional wellness centers on understanding and managing emotions, coping with stress, building resilience, and fostering positive mental health.
Ability to express feelings, engage in enjoyable activities and adjust to daily stress
Featuring a talk by Rutgers Psychologist Shireen Rizvi, PhD, this video from the Mental Health and Wellness Week Chancellor-Provost Lecture Series offers insights into becoming improving your overall emotional wellness.
The "Mental Health Moments" video series provides deep insights on a variety of topics related to mental health.
A playlist of 5-minute or less videos on developing dialectal behavior therapy (DBT) skills on mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation.
Rutgers Student Health offers self-help apps, meditation tools, and guided exercises which can be a great way to manage day-to-day stress or to use periodically when you feel overwhelmed.
Financial wellness involves the ability to have enough money to meet practical needs and a sense of control over and knowledge about personal finances.
A resource for building awareness of your current and future financial situation.
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Building Financial Wellness helps you recognize what triggers spending, how using credit leads to debt, and ways to cope with challenging feelings about money. You can learn to set attainable financial goals to increase sense of control over personal finances.
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Social wellness involves having relationships with friends, family, and the community, and having an interest in and concern for the needs of others.
A resource on ways to create and sustain supportive relationships
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Spiritual wellness involves having meaning and purpose and a sense of balance and peace.
Learn more about activities that enrich a sense of purpose and meaning each day.
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Occupational wellness involves participating in activities that provide meaning and purpose, including employment.
Learn more about tips on how to plan activities that provide meaning and purpose.
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Environmental wellness involves being and feeling physically safe, in safe and clean surroundings, and being able to access clean air, food, and water. Consider where you live, like your neighborhood, community or workplace, as well as your country and planet.
Learn more about how to seek places and spaces that are safe, pleasant and either calming or stimulating as needed.
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