The Development of Self-Regulation-Based Holistic Health Counseling Model to Improve College Students’ Psychological Well-Being

Abstract

Students must adapt to campus life, including the academic pressure, peer pressure, and poor physical and mental condition due to various academic tasks. All of these issues have the potential to make college students having low state of psychological well-being. Self-regulation method as the novelty of this study was used to support holistic health counseling to improve the psychological well-being of college students. The purpose of this study was to design a holistic health counseling model which was based on self-regulation to help college students improve their psychological well-being. Formative evaluation techniques were carried out to evaluate the counseling model.Two experts and two practitioners participated in evaluating the counseling model. The revised counseling model was ready to test through an experiment. Futhermore, it could be used in wider tertiary education setting.