{"id":3449,"date":"2015-01-23T23:07:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T23:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/23\/phokus-presents-mental-health-week\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:46:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:46:01","slug":"phokus-presents-mental-health-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/phokus-presents-mental-health-week\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOKUS presents &#8220;Mental Health Week&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16145\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mental-health.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16145\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16145 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/newspress.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mental-health-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/226;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University\u2019s PHOKUS, Promoting Healthy Options through Knowledge, Understanding &amp; Service, will present a week-long program addressing mental illness beginning Monday, Jan. 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMental Health Week\u201d includes CLP speaker engagements and panel discussions, a relaxation day, and an off-Broadway sketch (CLP). A schedule follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLP: Building Mental Fitness<\/strong>, 7 p.m., Monday, Jan. 26, Patrick Lecture Hall. Robyn Hussa Farrell, founder and CEO of Mental Fitness, offers evidence-based methods for improving coping skills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>R<\/strong><strong>elaxation Day with RLC and FUSAB, \u00a0<\/strong>Furman Residential Life Council and Furman University Student Activities Board bring tea, healthy snacks, and lovable dogs in front of Duke Library, 2-4 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 27. Join RLC and FUSAB in the library basement 7-10 p.m., Tuesday for more tea and snacks, plus mini meditation classes and free massages!<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLP: \u201cAccording to Josh,\u201d <\/strong>7 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 28, McAlister Auditorium. Internationally known suicide prevention speaker Josh Rivedal will speak about his own struggle with thoughts of suicide in his one-man rendition of his off-Broadway production. His talk is followed by a panel discussion on mental illness and suicide, and what can be done to help a friend or ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLP:<\/strong> <strong>SPEAK OUT: Break the Silence. End the Stigma,<\/strong> 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 29, Watkins Room. Furman students share personal stories of struggles and successes with mental illness. A panel discussion follows addressing the stigma surrounding mental illness in our culture and what we can do to combat it.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Furman\u2019s \u201cMental Health Week,\u201d contact Sandra Adams, RN-BC, Student Health Services, (864) 294-2180, or <a href=\"mailto:sandra.adams@furman.edu\">sandra.adams@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University\u2019s PHOKUS, Promoting Healthy Options through Knowledge, Understanding &#038; Service, will present a week-long program addressing mental illness beginning Monday, Jan. 26. \u201cMental Health Week\u201d includes CLP speaker engagements and panel discussions, a relaxation day, and an off-Broadway sketch (CLP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":14277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}