The Alabama Model has several dimensions of understanding that each contribute to students’ academic and personal success. Through this model of wellness, it is our hope students will have a better holistic understanding of health and wellbeing and how it relates to their college experience.

Dimensions of the Alabama Model

Academic


Developing and enhancing successful skills and intellectual abilities that lead to overall academic success.

Career

Gaining awareness of individual interests, abilities and experiences that lead to congruence with one’s chosen career path.

Financial

Establishing and maintaining knowledge and skills to develop and maintain financial security. 

Psychological

Developing and maintaining personal awareness, resilience and understanding of one’s self and others that leads to personal satisfaction and rewarding relationships. 

Physical

Establishing, enacting and maintaining individual awareness and knowledge of the importance of physical activity and healthy lifestyle practices. 

Social

Developing and maintaining healthy and appropriate relationships with others that lead to a feeling of belonging and social connection. 

Spiritual

Developing a process of existential understanding and growth that can help to inform and guide one’s meaning and experience of the world.