Samenvatting

This thesis set out to research the mental health issues that students currently face and researched both the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Furthermore, this thesis also set out to research self-regulation theories and how these could be implemented at universities and colleges. Self-regulation theories discuss ways in which people can actively and consciously manage their thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

Both desk and field research were used for the purpose of this thesis. Field research included a questionnaire that delivered results of 40 participants from university and college study programs. Unfortunately, there were no respondents from the United Kingdom in this questionnaire study. It is therefore recommended that more research should be done on this part of the investigation.

What was found, was first and foremost, that there is indeed a crisis going on surrounding mental health issues among students in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The numbers and trends in both countries are disturbing. Furthermore, it was also discovered that students were indeed interested in having the mentioned self-regulation theories implemented by the counseling teams, namely the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping, Mindfulness-Based-Stress-Reduction, Fixed-Growth Mindset, and the Self-Determination theory.

More research needs to be done on the approaches of burnout, depression, and anxiety by counseling teams, on the implementation of self-regulation theories in the study programs and lastly, on the context situation in the United Kingdom.