Feeling anxious or depressed is a normal human experience. When things feel uncertain or out of our control, it's understandable to feel fear, anxiety or sadness.

The key is learning to manage these feelings in a healthy and positive way.

Pat Walker Health Center's Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) has released a new webinar workshop designed to help students, faculty and staff address anxiety and depression symptoms.

The CAPS Anxiety & Depression Reduction Workshop will help you identify triggering situations, recognize your symptoms and employ coping skills to help manage symptoms.

Over the course of five sessions, CAPS Mental Health Clinician Kelly Spargo, LCSW helps you better understand anxiety and depression, and the impact self-care can have.

To accompany the workshop, please download the Anxiety & Depression Student Workbook as it will be referenced throughout. 

CAPS has also made available a shorter version of the above workshop in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. (CAPS is no longer offering the daily anxiety COVID-19 Zoom meeting, which has been replaced with the Anxiety & Depression Reduction Workshop.)

CAPS continues to provider crucial mental health services for students in telehealth format. Individual counseling, Let's Talk and psychiatry sessions can be scheduled by phone at 479-575-5276. Students are also encouraged to join the virtual CAPS Coffee Hour session held daily.

For more mental health resources and additional information about CAPS services, visit health.uark.edu.

Pat Walker Health Center remains committed to ensuring key health and wellness services remain available to the UA community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The health center remains open for medical care by appointment only, and have expanded access with telehealth services. Call 479-575-4451 to schedule an appointment.