Alabama Model

The Alabama Model of Student Health and Wellbeing provides an understanding of student wellness that contributes to students’ academic and personal success as well as ways to support it. Through this model of wellness, it is our hope students will have a better holistic understanding of health and wellbeing and how it relates to their college experience.

Foundation

The Alabama Model of Student Health and Wellbeing is grounded in the fundamental understanding of student development and cultural competence. Understanding student development provides the knowledge that student growth and maturity is vital in establishing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle as well as ways to provide appropriate prevention and intervention.

Dimensions of the Alabama Model

Academic

Developing and enhancing successful skills and intellectual abilities that lead to overall academic success.

Career

Gaining awareness of individual interests, abilities, and experiences that lead to congruence with one’s chosen career path.

Financial

Establishing and maintaining knowledge and skills to develop and maintain financial security. 

Psychological

Developing and maintaining personal awareness, resilience, and understanding of one’s self and others that leads to personal satisfaction and rewarding relationships.

Physical

Establishing, enacting, and maintaining individual awareness and knowledge of the importance of physical activity and healthy lifestyle practices.

Social

Developing and maintaining healthy and appropriate relationships with others that lead to a feeling of belonging and social connection.

Spiritual

Developing a process of existential understanding and growth that can help to inform and guide one’s meaning and experience of the world.