Expert Interview Plans

On Thursday, September 21st, my 201 documentary team and I will be interviewing Dr. Kate Nooner of the psychology department of the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. We will be asking Dr. Nooner about student stress, anxiety, and coping mechanisms, hopefully in the setting of her office. To begin with, we will ask Dr. Nooner questions that will set a tone of validating the issue at hand. This is an important step as it will hopefully make the content of the documentary as accessible as possible to as many people as possible. Sufferers will feel heard and addressed, and minimizers (whether sufferers themselves, or simply acquaintances of others who deal with stress and anxiety) will perhaps give this topic the attention it is due with the added weight of a professional opinion. After we accomplish setting a tone of validity, I'd like the bulk of the content to be encouraging and productive, perhaps a stream of coping tactics and positive psychology.
1.) How would you validate the issue of student stress and anxiety to those who don't feel understood and to those who would minimize it, whether they suffer from it or not?
2.) What is the purpose of stress and anxiety?
3.) How much stress is too much stress?
4.) What are some of the primary causes of stress and anxiety? What are those causes likely to look like in setting of academia?
5.) How would you characterize student stress and anxiety? Is it still serving a purpose?
6.) What can students do for themselves to address this issue now?
7.) What can students do for each other?
8.) What are coping mechanisms and why are they important? Do you have any examples or recommendations?
9.) What role can positive psychology play in managing stress and improving the quality of life for students?
10.) If there was one thing you could have everyone do to improve the situation of stress and anxiety in academia, what would it be?

We will do our vox pops on campus, stopping to to talk to students and perhaps some teachers in various hotspot areas for different majors to hopefully get a varied and representative crowd.
1.) How often do you feel stressed and how do you think stress affects your quality of life?
2.) What does stress look like on you? What are some signs you'll show when you're stressed?
3.) What do you do to deal with your stress?
4.) What is your major and what do you find stressful about being a student?