Resources for Optimizing Student Interactions

People want to experience order, predictability and control in their lives. These needs can be fulfilled by the family and society (e.g. police, schools, business and medical care). If these needs are not satisfied the human body cannot function optimally.

 

For example, emotional security, financial security (e.g. employment, social welfare), law and order, freedom from fear, social stability, property, health and wellbeing (e.g. safety against accidents and injury).

 

Some key APSU links to help support students in meeting these needs are below:

• APSU Campus Police

• APSU Student Resources

• Boyd Health Services

• Emergency Action Plan

• Campus Security Authority Incident Report

 

Responding to Emotional and Mental Issues:

• Be willing to listen 

• Ask direct questions

• Provide resources, if you know them 

• Submit BIT form

• Refer to the Counseling Center 

• Follow up with the Student

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Helping Students Find Connections:

Belongingness, refers to a human emotional need for interpersonal relationships, affiliating, connectedness, and being part of a group. 

 

Examples of belongingness needs include friendship, intimacy, trust, and acceptance, receiving and giving affection, and love. 

 

APSU links to help students in meeting love and belongingness needs 

• Student Organizations

• Wilbur N. Daniel African American Center

• Latino Community Resource Center

• Newton Military Family Resource Center

• The Adult, Non-Traditional & Transfer Student Center

 

Organizations, Events, and Traditions 

• PeayLink

• Homecoming 

• Almost Fridays

• GOV RUN 

 

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Students Esteem and Self-Efficacy:

• Include self-worth, accomplishment and respect.

• Maslow classified esteem needs into two categories: (i) esteem for oneself (dignity, achievement, mastery, independence) and (ii) the desire for reputation or respect from others (e.g., status, prestige).

 

APSU Links to help students with Esteem Needs

• Writing Center

• Center for Academic Support & Enrichment

• Student Life and Engagement

 

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Self Actualization Needs:

• Refer to the realization of a person's potential, self-fulfillment, seeking personal growth and peak experiences. Maslow (1943) describes this level as the desire to accomplish everything that one can, to become the most that one can be. 

• Individuals may perceive or focus on this need very specifically. For example, one individual may have a strong desire to become an ideal parent. In another, the desire may be expressed economically, academically or athletically. For others, it may be expressed creatively, in paintings, pictures, or inventions.

 

 APSU Links to help students with Self-Actualization Needs:

• Career Services - Handshake

• Graduate Studies

 

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