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Stay Safe While you Study
This pocket-friendly guidebook will help you successfully navigate the challenges that studying can bring and help you to make the best choices for you. It discusses risks that students may need to manage, from alcohol and drugs, to gambling and self harm. It is practical and sensible, based on evidence and decades of experience
96 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2021
About the author
Dominique Thompson
20 books2 followersDr Dominique Thompson is an award winning GP, young people’s mental health expert, TEDx speaker, author and educator, with over 20 years of clinical experience caring for students, including as a police and expedition doctor, and most recently as Director of Service at the University of Bristol Students’ Health Service. She was named Bristol Healthcare Professional of the Year 2017.
Dominique has helped design apps to support student mental health, and is the author of How to grow a Grown Up and the Student Wellbeing Series of books. She has been interviewed widely, including by the Guardian and Radio 4’s Today programme.
Her TEDx talks include “What I learnt from 78,000 GP consultations with university students” highlighting possible causes behind the recent rise in young people’s mental health distress, and “Understanding the Why” suggests ways in which everyone can better support the younger generation.
She is a Clinical Advisor for NICE, the Royal College of GPs, and for Student Minds, the UK’s student mental health charity. She was the GP member of the NICE Eating Disorders’ guidelines development group, and the Universities UK StepChange and Minding Our Future committees, as well as the Office for Students’ Challenge Fund advisory panel. Dominique is also a member of the UK Mental Wellbeing in Higher Education group (MWBHE). In 2019 she was nominated as one of the Top 100 West Women of the Year.
Dominique has now launched her own student health and wellbeing consultancy, Buzz Consulting, to assist organisations in improving their student support offer. You can follow her on Twitter @drdomthompson and on Instagram as drdomthompson
Dominique has helped design apps to support student mental health, and is the author of How to grow a Grown Up and the Student Wellbeing Series of books. She has been interviewed widely, including by the Guardian and Radio 4’s Today programme.
Her TEDx talks include “What I learnt from 78,000 GP consultations with university students” highlighting possible causes behind the recent rise in young people’s mental health distress, and “Understanding the Why” suggests ways in which everyone can better support the younger generation.
She is a Clinical Advisor for NICE, the Royal College of GPs, and for Student Minds, the UK’s student mental health charity. She was the GP member of the NICE Eating Disorders’ guidelines development group, and the Universities UK StepChange and Minding Our Future committees, as well as the Office for Students’ Challenge Fund advisory panel. Dominique is also a member of the UK Mental Wellbeing in Higher Education group (MWBHE). In 2019 she was nominated as one of the Top 100 West Women of the Year.
Dominique has now launched her own student health and wellbeing consultancy, Buzz Consulting, to assist organisations in improving their student support offer. You can follow her on Twitter @drdomthompson and on Instagram as drdomthompson
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