SEAM-10

A contemporary measure for student support services (mental health, counselling, wellbeing, and disability) to assess and demonstrate their wider impacts on student experience and academic adjustment; SEAM-10 © The University of Sheffield and BACP, 2025.

• Developed with practitioners and students

• Seeking student services to join the pilot study to assess the acceptability and validity of the SEAM-10 in practice

• Being built into Titanium, PCMIS, and CORE Net for the pilot

Partners

We have been working with a range of partners to develop the SEAM-10 including:

• The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)

• PCMIS Digital Mental Health Technology

• The Center for Collegiate Mental Health (CCMH)

Join the pilot

We are currently conducting a pilot study in the UK and USA to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of the SEAM-10 in a practical setting.  We are inviting UK student support services to join the pilot study and use SEAM-10 in practice.

Eligibility: any student service (counselling, mental health, wellbeing, disability etc) able to use SEAM-10 in any system.

If you're potentially interested in joining the pilot study and using the SEAM-10, then please contact Emma on e.l.broglia@sheffield.ac.uk

What's involved for interested services?

Implementation: The primary step is to build the SEAM-10 into the service's existing data collection system (e.g., PCMIS, CORE Net, Titanium). 

PCMIS Users: We have partnered with PCMIS to build the SEAM-10. If you use PCMIS and are interested in using the SEAM-10, then email Emma (e.l.broglia@sheffield.ac.uk) and she will be able to liaise with PCMIS to make the SEAM-10 available.

Titanium Users: The SEAM-10 has also been built into Titanium. If you use Titanium and are interested in using the SEAM-10, then email Emma (e.l.broglia@sheffield.ac.uk) and she will be able to share the Titanium file to import into your system.

Using the SEAM-10 in practice

Participating services must use the SEAM-10 during their initial assessment of students as a minimum. The frequency of its use thereafter (e.g., at every session, pre/post-support) is at the discretion of the individual service, allowing it to fit with existing processes.

Data & Feedback 

Clients will complete the SEAM-10 alongside any usual measures already embedded into the service (e.g., clinical or wellbeing measures). Data sharing requirements are flexible; participating universities can decide what level of data to share with the research team, ranging from pseudo-anonymised SEAM-10 data with associated demographics to sharing SEAM-10 alongside outcomes from routinely collected measures. This will allow us to evaluate how the SEAM-10 performs alongside existing measures in practice. 

A key part of the pilot involves gathering feedback through surveys and focus groups from both students and staff (clinical, administrative, and supervisors) who have been involved in the process. 

How pilot data will be used

Data from the pilot will be used to validate the SEAM-10 to be used in practice across a range of settings. Feedback on how the SEAM-10 was used will also inform the development of the implementation guide, which will advise best practices for using the SEAM-10. Following the completion of the pilot study, the SEAM-10 (UK and US versions) and the implementation guide will be made public to use by any interested party working with students in a university/college setting. 

Funding

This research is funded by Research England as part of the QR-Policy Fund for Knowledge Exchange.