The goal of this research is to investigate whether a peer-delivered illness self-management program called Taking Action can help college students with serious mental illnesses. Participants will be randomly assigned to either the experimental condition (Taking Action) or the control condition (information only). Participants in the experimental condition will attend five 2.5-hour Taking Action sessions. Participants will complete three interviews (baseline, post-intervention, and follow-up) to assess how well the program works, is liked, and benefits students clinically and academically. The investigators seek to test the following hypotheses: Compared to controls, students who do the Taking Action program will report greater improvements in mental health self-management attitudes, skills, and behaviors and will report greater improvements in mental health symptoms and recovery, and better academic outcomes.
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Changes from Baseline in Mental Health Symptoms
Timeframe: Baseline, Immediately After the Intervention, and 3-Month Follow-Up
Changes from Baseline in Perceived Recovery
Timeframe: Baseline, Immediately After the Intervention, and 3-Month Follow-Up