{"id":12073,"date":"2025-06-11T09:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stationsme.ca\/ressource-personnel\/guidelines-for-dealing-with-a-student-in-distress-for-teaching-staff-french-only\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:47:38","slug":"guidelines-for-dealing-with-a-student-in-distress-for-teaching-staff-french-only","status":"publish","type":"member-resource","link":"https:\/\/stationsme.ca\/en\/staff-members\/tools-for-staff-members\/guidelines-for-dealing-with-a-student-in-distress-for-teaching-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines for supporting a student in distress: for teaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teaching staff play a key role in supporting students experiencing psychological distress. Not only does their frequent and direct contact with them enable them to witness the distress, but some students may also confide in them because of their role as role models and support figures. By adopting a caring and open attitude, teaching staff can encourage students to talk about their difficulties and ask for help.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This tool provides guidelines for recognising signs of psychological distress in students, supporting them and directing them to the appropriate resources. Station SME tools for teaching staff are also provided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The information presented in this tool is taken from the Formation&nbsp;: <a href=\"https:\/\/stationsme.ca\/en\/staff-members\/tools-for-staff-members\/training-interacting-with-a-person-who-appears-to-be-in-psychological-distress-at-universite-teluq\/\">Interagir avec une personne qui semble en d\u00e9tresse psychologique<\/a> developed by Universit\u00e9 T\u00c9LUQ. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/stationsme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/v2-EN-En-ligne_PDF_Outil_personnel-enseignant_reperes-detresse.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><a href=\"https:\/\/stationsme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/v2-EN-En-ligne_PDF_Outil_personnel-enseignant_reperes-detresse.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9437c248 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1meA-DTXf-IXr8_D2d_OTOyy3mM3fFNxB\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Printed version (with QR codes)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12071,"template":"","resource_category":[],"resource_member_type":[82],"class_list":["post-12073","member-resource","type-member-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource_member_type-tools"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Guidelines for supporting a student in distress: for teaching staff - Station SME<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/stationsme.ca\/en\/staff-members\/tools-for-staff-members\/guidelines-for-dealing-with-a-student-in-distress-for-teaching-staff\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Guidelines for supporting a student in distress: for teaching staff - Station SME\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Teaching staff play a key role in supporting students experiencing psychological distress. 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