Thriving Together

Welcome to this year's well-being event for students and employees at SDU

Well-being is not only an individual experience – it is also a joint effort. This year's event is titled "Shameful (un)well-being" - a topic, which speakers Ditte Roth Hulgaard and Christian Hjortkjær will enlighten us with.

Introduction to the presentations:

Shame is to blame – Psychological failure to thrive and existential development 

Young people are not really afraid of doing something wrong but rather of being found out. Therefore, it is not so much guilt that they are dealing with but shame. The reason may be found in a new morality of orders and ideals, which exhausts and makes them anxious about losing control of what is most important in their lives. How did we get here, how do we understand the shame mechanisms that lock us down and how can we help? 

/By Christian Hjortkjær, PhD and folk high school teacher at Silkeborg Folk High School 

Perspectives on young people’s (un)well-being  

The VIVE survey on the welfare and well-being of children and young people from 2020 showed that around 25% of 15–19-year-olds report that they are or have been affected by a mental disorder. In this presentation, I will offer perspectives on how we can understand this development and how the development affects young people who are starting at university.  

/By Ditte Roth Hulgaard Clinical associate professor • Psychiatry (Aabenraa)