Student Administration and Services
Series associated with Student Administration and Services
Introducing CBT for low mood and depression
Orientation for New Students at Oxford
Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
Preparing for your Undergraduate Time Abroad
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Part III – Getting Organised for Your Time Abroad (And Coming Home Afterwards) | In this third podcast, you’ll be asked to do a bit of contingency planning in preparation for your time abroad and coming home afterwards. | Elizabeth Edginton | 11 Apr 2024 | |
| 16 | Part II – Preparing for Culture Shock | This second podcast encourages you to think about the different stages of culture shock and some of the potential difficulties you might experience. | Elizabeth Edginton | 11 Apr 2024 | |
| 15 | Part 1 – Reflecting on Previous Experiences of Transition and Change | The aim of this first podcast is to help you to begin to reflect on some of your thoughts and feelings about your time abroad as an Oxford undergraduate. | Elizabeth Edginton | 11 Apr 2024 | |
| 14 | Introducing CBT for low mood and depression 6: Self-Criticism | This sixth podcast in the CBT for Low Mood series focuses on self-criticism. It looks at why we can be so critical of ourselves and when this can become a problem, and introduces three tips and tools to help you deal with unhelpful self-criticism. | Jonathan Totman | 21 Apr 2022 | |
| 13 | Introducing CBT for low mood and depression 5: Ten Tips for Coping in a Crisis | This fifth podcast in the CBT for Low Mood series focuses on those times when you’re feeling most desperate, hopeless or overwhelmed, offering some practical suggestions for how to cope and look after yourself during a mental health crisis. | Jonathan Totman | 07 Feb 2022 | |
| 12 | Introducing CBT for low mood and depression 4: A Tool for Dealing with Worry and Rumination | This fourth podcast focuses on two patterns of thinking that often come with low mood and depression: worry and rumination. | Jonathan Totman | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 11 | Introducing CBT for low mood and depression 3: Rules for living (and how to break them) | This third podcast focuses on the implicit “rules” affecting how you think and behave, helping you to spot when they’re serving you well and when they might be overly rigid or exacting. | Jonathan Totman | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 10 | Introducing CBT for low mood and depression 2: six troublesome thoughts and how to respond | This second CBT podcast focuses on the "C" of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), looking at ways in which low mood and depression can affect your thinking and introducing the key cognitive techniques of thought monitoring and thought challenging. | Jonathan Totman, Oxford University Counselling Service | 15 Oct 2020 | |
| 9 | Introducing CBT for low mood and depression 1: doing more of what matters to you | This first episode on CBT looks at some of the ways in which low mood and depression can manifest in students, and introduces a central cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) strategy known as "behavioural activation". | Jonathan Totman, Oxford University Counselling Service | 15 Oct 2020 | |
| 8 | Academic Essentials (Postgraduate) | An introduction to academic life at Oxford specifically for new postgraduate students with advice about how to navigate the demands of your course. | Allison D'Ambrosia, James Tibbert | 14 Aug 2019 | |
| 7 | Academic Essentials (Undergraduate) | An introduction to academic life at Oxford specifically for new undergraduate students with advice about how to navigate the demands of your course. | Teodora Musatoiu, Liam Arbuthnot | 14 Aug 2019 | |
| 6 | Social Essentials | How to make the most of your social experience at the University, including information about joining student clubs, college life, University sports, Freshers’ Fair, transport and day-to-day life in the city of Oxford. | Joe Inwood, Toni Adenle | 14 Aug 2019 | |
| 5 | Creative Commons | 5 What to do About Failure: Personal Actions. | How to take action to change the role failure plays in your life. | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Rachel Bray, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | 4 What to do About Failure: Personal Attitudes. | How to change your own attitudes to failure and success, and how failure relates to regret. | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 3 | Creative Commons | 3 Failure and the Farewell to Academia. | Why does the idea of leaving academia so often feel like professional failure? | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Rachel Bray, Chiara Cappellaro | 22 May 2018 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | 2 Failure and Other People | Other people (or our idea of them) can induce feelings of failure and alleviate or transform them. | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 1 | Creative Commons | 1 The Feeling of Failure | What does failure feel like, and what happens when you sit with it? | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |