The Student Mental Health Crisis

2018 ◽  
pp. 132-171
Author(s):  
James E. Côté
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Crisis ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Student Mental Health

scholarly journals A longitudinal study of mental wellbeing in students that transition into PhD study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Scarf ◽  
Taylor Winter ◽  
Benjamin Riordan ◽  
John Hunter ◽  
Karen Tustin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Bayesian Regression ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Mental Health Crisis ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Student Mental Health ◽  
Important Message

Journal editorials, career features, and the popular press, commonly talk of a graduate student mental health crisis. To date, studies on graduate student mental health have employed cross-sectional designs, limiting any causal conclusions regarding the relationship between graduate student and mental health. Here, we present the first longitudinal study on mental health in PhD students. Data were drawn from a longitudinal study of undergraduate students in New Zealand, allowing us to compare students who did, and did not, transition into PhD study following the completion of their undergraduate degree. Using multilevel Bayesian regression, we detected a 0.09 standard deviation decrease in mental health for students who enter PhD study. This finding is orders of magnitude smaller than one might expect based on previous cross-sectional research and provide an important message; that poor mental health is not an inevitable consequence of graduate study.

Historicising the “Crisis” in Undergraduate Mental Health: British Universities and Student Mental Illness, 1944–1968

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-220
Author(s):  
Sarah Crook
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Mental Health Crisis ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Student Mental Health ◽  
Post War ◽  
Attention To Students

Abstract This article explores how and why student mental health became an issue of concern in British universities between 1944 and 1968. It argues that two factors drew student mental health to the attention of medical professionals across this period: first, it argues that the post-war interest in mental illness drew attention to students, who were seen to be the luminaries of the future, investing their wellbeing with particular social importance. Second, it argues that the development of university health services made students increasingly visible, endorsing the view that higher education posed distinctive yet shared mental challenges to young people. The article charts the expansion of services and maps the implications of the visibility of student mental distress for post-war British universities. It suggests that claims that British higher education is currently in the midst of an unprecedented mental health “crisis” should be seen within this broader historical context, for while the contours of the debates around student mental health have shifted substantially, evidence that there was anxiety around student mental wellbeing in the immediate post-war years undermines accusations that contemporary students constitute a unique “snowflake generation.”

Mental health crisis - experiences and strategies in everyday life

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (S 01) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Gullslett ◽  
M Borg ◽  
H Kim
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mental Health Crisis ◽  
Health Crisis
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