Psychology

Mental Health Issues and the University Student

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college is becoming an aspiration for more and more of america’s youth. Nearly half of american 18- to 24-year-olds are enrolled in college at least part-time. With the rise of information technology and an increasingly global economy, higher education is also becoming more of a necessity for success. although many of us look back fondly on our “bright college years,” for grow- ing numbers of students, this is a tumultuous and difficult time. In addition to many normal developmental milestones that can cause emotional challenges, psychiatric disorders often first emerge during these years.
“record Levels of Stress Found in college Freshmen,” trumpeted a headline in the New York Times in 2011.1 continuing a trend that has been noted since the 1990s, college students were reporting the lowest levels of emotional health in 25 years. This particular finding relied on data from over 200,000 incoming first-year students at four-year colleges across the United States who partici- pated in “The american Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010,” the largest and longest-running survey of american college students.2 The numbers have since remained about the same. In the past decade, many other studies have raised similar concerns about the emotional and mental well-being of students. and it’s not just “stress”—depression, anxiety, substance abuse, eating disor- ders, and other psychiatric issues seem to be on the rise in this population

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Mental Health Issues and the University Student

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Maryland : ohns Hopkins University Press., 2014

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1-259

Language

English

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1-4214-1239-x

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NONE

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1st Edtion

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PSYCHOLOGY

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