Preventive Mental Health Education for Functioning Adults: Stress, Coping and Mental Health Courses at the University of Maryland

Three fifteen-week courses at the University of Maryland are described. These courses explore diverse cognitive-behavioral skills that facilitate coping, are preventive in nature, and are suitable for learning by healthy individuals in educational settings. Initial results, previously reported, are encouraging and suggest the possibilities that similar courses might be offered in other university, community or workplace settings. [International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, 2002 4(1),pp 57-63].