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A Whole University Approach to Leadership for the Mental Health Faculty Members, Staff, and Students: An Embedded Multiple Case Study (109787)
This presentation will be live-streamed via Zoom (Online Access)
Monday, 13 July 2026 11:05
Session: Session 1
Room: Live-Stream Room 1
Presentation Type:Live-Stream Presentation
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The World Health Organization (2024) rings the alarm of the mental health crisis that calls for transformative, systemic, and collective action to deal with the threats of mental ill health. In this context, mental health leadership is urgently needed in the workplace and schools that have been increasingly mandated to mitigate the impact of stigma, prevent the onset of mental health problems, and support those dealing with mental illness. Despite this, there is little research on mental leadership in universities to support the well-being of students, faculty, and staff. This paper explores mental health-oriented leadership practices in a private university in the Philippines through an embedded case study (Yin, 2018). Case 1 investigates the mental health leadership practice for faculty and staff, while Case 2 examines the mental health leadership practice to ensure the wellbeing of students. The data included interviews with university leaders and a content analysis of relevant policies and supporting documents. The synthesis reveals that effective leadership practices include placing mental health on the agenda, formulating a university mental health policy and a safe spaces policy, creating a structure and appointing leaders to support an integrated approach, developing implementation strategies, and operationalizing those strategies. The results also identified the pillars (universal, multisectoral, holistic, multi-tiered, and rights-based) of a whole-university approach to mental health leadership. It also contributes to the emerging literature on leading for wellbeing because traditional models focus on mental health support as a stand-alone service rather than an integrated, whole-university organizational imperative.
Authors:
Sterling Plata, De La Salle University, Philippines
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