The Zenstudies: Making a Healthy Transition to Higher Education program aims to prevent depression and anxiety among first-year students in post-secondary school. It includes three modules, or prevention levels.

Module 2, presented here, is a targeted-selective prevention program. It includes two workshops, one for anxiety management and one for depression prevention for self-referred students, taught by a team of teachers and specialists. Participants in these small-group workshops will have volunteered to take this training.

Module 2 aims to ease the transition to college or university and lower the risk of dropout, while equipping students with a solid understanding of issues related to internalizing problems (anxiety and depression) and teaching them a few preventive strategies.

The facilitator’s guide has been specifically designed for teachers or professionals trained in providing mental health services and who are working with this student clientele.

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Diane Marcotte est titulaire d’un doctorat en psychologie clinique de l’Université d’Ottawa et dirige le Laboratoire de recherche sur la santé mentale des jeunes en contexte scolaire de l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle pratique la psychothérapie et participe à la formation des psychologues depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans. Elle a publié plus d’une centaine d’articles scientifiques, livres et chapitres dont le programme de prévention de la dépression Pare-Chocs pour les adolescents. Elle s’intéresse à l’émergence de la dépression et l’anxiété pendant les transitions scolaires et au développement et à l’évaluation de programmes de prévention. 

Diane Marcotte holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Ottawa and heads the youth mental health research laboratory in an educational context at Université du Québec à Montréal. Marcotte has been practicing psychotherapy and training psychologists for over 25 years. She has published over 100 scientific articles, books and chapters, including the depression prevention program for teens entitled Pare-Chocs. The subject of her research is the emergence of depression and anxiety during educational transitions and the development and evaluation of prevention programs. 

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Carole Viel est conseillère d’orientation à la retraite.

Carole Viel is a retired guidance counsellor. 

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Marie-Laurence Paré et Cynthia Lamarre ont obtenu leur doctorat en psychologie, recherche et intervention, à l’Université du Québec à Montréal sous la direction de Dre Diane Marcotte.

?Marie-Laurence Paré and Cynthia Lamarre obtained their PhDs in psychology, research and intervention from Université du Québec à Montréal under the supervision of Dr. Diane Marcotte. 

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Marie-Laurence Paré et Cynthia Lamarre ont obtenu leur doctorat en psychologie, recherche et intervention, à l’Université du Québec à Montréal sous la direction de Dre Diane Marcotte.

Marie-Laurence Paré and Cynthia Lamarre obtained their PhDs in psychology, research and intervention from Université du Québec à Montréal under the supervision of Dr. Diane Marcotte. 

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ALESHIA JENSEN is a French-to-English literary translator and former bookseller living in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal. Her translations include Explosions by Mathieu Poulin, a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation; Prague by Maude Veilleux, co-translated with Aimee Wall; as well as numerous graphic novels, including work by Julie Delporte, Catherine Ocelot, Mirion Malle, and Pascal Girard.

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