HP 2.1–2.2 – Mental Well-being Evidence

Healthy University Rating System (HURS)

University : Siam University

Country : Thailand

Web Address : https://sustainability.siam.edu

HP 2 Mental Health

[2.1] Coverage of Stress Reduction Programs

Description:

Siam University’s Health and Well-being Policy, in both the 2024–2025 and 2025–2026 reports, commits the University to confidential counselling, mental-health awareness campaigns, workshops and training that promote resilience and help-seeking. Stress reduction programmes run at two levels: university-wide programmes open to students and staff of every faculty, and programmes run by faculties for their own students and staff (Tables HP 2.1.1 and 2.1.2).

University-wide. International Yoga Day is held every year at the Sports Complex – more than 120 faculty members and students in 2025, and about 100 students, staff and members of the public in 2026, when guided yoga and mindfulness aimed to reduce stress, improve concentration and promote relaxation. The Siam Campus Life Support Center gives students a comfort space and advice to make university life meaningful, happy and safe; the Health Center and the Faculty of Nursing LINE account offer confidential counselling; and the Dhamma Studies programme trains students in Buddhist mind and moral practice. The campus tree project also notes that quality green space helps reduce staff stress (Sustainability Report 2025–2026, p. 129).

Faculties. The Faculty of Medicine runs Siam-Med Happy Place: in July 2026 lecturers and staff, and Year 2–3 students with the Medical Student Club, practised listening with the heart with a clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist, and Year 1 students followed on 21 October 2026. The Faculty of Nursing’s Dhamma Sanchorn took 55 students to practise mindfulness and meditation (satisfaction 4.77 of 5; “relaxing”, “not stressful”), and its mental-health promotion projects on stress and resilience ran in December 2025 – January 2026. The Faculty of Pharmacy offers art therapy, aromatherapy and relaxation and breathing exercises after self-assessment, and the International College offers personal counselling and a lecturer advisor for every student.

Table HP 2.1.1 – Faculties and their stress reduction programmes

Green: faculty programme documented for academic year 2025/2026. Yellow: programme documented in older records or the Student Handbook. Denominator: 15 faculties and colleges (GI 4).

Table HP 2.1.2 – Programmes, participation and feedback

Sources: Sustainability Report 2025–2026, pp. 8, 54, 129, 134–136; SDG Report 2024–2025, pp. 8, 46, 53, 109; Faculty of Medicine news (Siam-Med Happy Place, July–October 2026); Faculty of Nursing project summaries (Dhamma Sanchorn, academic year 2567; project 2091101-68033); THE 3.3.5 Mental health support for students; Student Handbook, International College.

Evidence to attach:

• Siam-Med Happy Place news and photos (Faculty of Medicine): https://med.siam.edu/?s=Happy+Place

• Sustainability Report 2025–2026, pp. 8, 54, 129: https://sustainability.siam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/SDG_report_2025_2026.pdf; SDG Report 2024–2025, pp. 8, 46, 53: https://sustainability.siam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SDG-report-2024-2025.pdf

• Dhamma Sanchorn and mental-health promotion project summaries, Faculty of Nursing (without name lists, ID copies or receipts).

• Faculty of Pharmacy activity records and International College counselling service records for academic year 2025/2026.

• Programmes of the other faculties, and Yoga Day participant lists by faculty.

[HP 2.2] Comprehensive Mental Health Assessment Programs

Description:

Siam University’s Health and Well-being Policy guarantees students, faculty and staff access to confidential counselling, crisis intervention and referral. Mental-health support runs as a chain: screening, counselling, monitoring, referral to specialists and follow-up (Table HP 2.2.1).

Experts and screening. Lecturers of the Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing and the Faculty of Pharmacy’s Mental Health Advisory Committee provide expert support, and pharmacy lecturers work with the Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry and teach in the International Mental Health Workforce Training Program 2026 with the Department of Mental Health and WHO. Nursing students have a mental-health examination on entry; the Faculty of Nursing uses a stepped assessment for stress, depression and suicide risk (ST-5, 2Q, 9Q, 8Q), and pharmacy students assess themselves with 9Q and GAD-7. University personnel receive an annual physical and mental health evaluation with personal advice.

Vigilance, care and referral. Students can get counselling from academic advisors, the Mental Health Advisory Committee, the Health Center and, confidentially, the Faculty of Nursing’s LINE account. The committee monitors students’ progress and refers them to clinical psychologists or psychiatrists when needed; in its project, two students received online therapy and both improved. In 2026 the Faculty of Medicine’s Siam-Med Happy Place trained medical students and staff, with a clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist, to listen to and support friends and colleagues, adding peer vigilance. Lecturers from various faculties were trained in “Fundamentals of Psychology” to support students with disabilities (7–9 April 2026).

Table HP 2.2.1 – Structure of mental-health assessment and support

Evidence to attach:

• Health and Well-being Policy and specialist network – SDG Report 2024–2025, pp. 8, 40: https://sustainability.siam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SDG-report-2024-2025.pdf; Sustainability Report 2025–2026, pp. 8, 38, 102: https://sustainability.siam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/SDG_report_2025_2026.pdf

• Mental-health assessment forms (Faculty of Nursing; 9Q and GAD-7, Faculty of Pharmacy) and the Faculty of Pharmacy order on the Mental Health Advisory Committee (without names and signatures).

• Faculty of Pharmacy project report on care through clinical psychologists (project 2101101-66021) and the MoU with the Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry.