Recognize

Mild

• Self-disclosure of personal distress (e.g., family stress, financial problems, grief, interpersonal challenges, etc.)
• Irritability or apathy
• Change in academic work quality, quantity, or attendance
• Repeated requests for extensions
• Needing more personal support from you than academic or supervisory support
• Disorganization in work, attendance, performance

Moderate

• Unusual or disproportionate emotional response to events
• Excessive tearfulness or panic reactions
• Verbal abuse (e.g., taunting, badgering, intimidation, etc.)
• Evokes concerns from peers about behaviors and/ or impacts on others
• Sudden and sustained decline in academic work quality, quantity, or attendance
• Inappropriately demanding of faculty and staff
• Bizarre or unrelated content in writings or presentations
• Reports of excessive fatigue or sleep disturbances
• Instances of being under the influence of substances

Elevated

• Implying or making a direct threat to harm self or others including death
• Delusions or paranoia
• Disoriented, “out of it,” inability to place self in current time, location, and space
• Garbled, tangential, disconnected, or slurred speech
• Behavior is out of context, disruptive, or bizarre
• Unprovoked anger or hostility
• Physical violence (e.g., shoving, grabbing, assaulting, etc.)
• Display of or threatening to access weapons
• Academic assignments dominated by themes of hopelessness, rage, worthlessness, isolation, despair, action out, suicidal ideations, homicidal ideations, seeking revenge against a person or institution
• Stalking or harassing behavior