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Overview
Student life is a time of change and adjustment, and staff as well as students' families need resources to help them provide support for students experiencing mental health difficulties. Based on recent research findings and drawing on the experiences of professionals, academics and service users, this book explores how the needs of students can best be met by student and community mental health services.The contributors examine how campus-based agencies can work with the voluntary sector, community practitioners and students' families to provide effective support for students with mental health problems. They place their discussion in the context of structural and economic changes in further and higher education and society and discuss the impact on students' mental health of factors such as family relationships, debt and financial difficulties as well as drug and alcohol abuse.
Including chapters on responding to student suicide and on faith and spirituality in relation to mental health, this is a valuable resource for the families of students experiencing mental health problems and all those working in the field of student welfare.
Synopsis
Student life is a time of change and adjustment, and staff as well as students' families need resources to help them provide support for students experiencing mental health difficulties. Based on recent research findings and drawing on the experiences of professionals, academics and service users, this book explores how the needs of students can best be met by student and community mental health services.
The contributors examine how campus-based agencies can work with the voluntary sector, community practitioners and students' families to provide effective support for students with mental health problems. They place their discussion in the context of structural and economic changes in further and higher education and society and discuss the impact on students' mental health of factors such as family relationships, debt and financial difficulties as well as drug and alcohol abuse.
Including chapters on responding to student suicide and on faith and spirituality in relation to mental health, this is a valuable resource for the families of students experiencing mental health problems and all those working in the field of student welfare.
Booknews
This book considers the ways in which students' mental health needs can best be met by university mental health services. Chapters discuss the relationships between campus-based agencies and volunteer groups, and between community practitioners and the students' families. They consider factors like family relationships, debt and money troubles, drugs and alcohol, and academic challenges, placing these in the broader contexts of social, economic, and institutional change. Distributed in the US by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)