Stigma and student mental health in higher education
By Jennifer Martin. 2010
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Stigma is a powerful force in preventing university students with mental health difficulties from gaining access to appropriate support. This paper reports on an exploratory study of university students with mental health difficulties that found most students did not disclose their mental health problems to staff at university. This was primarily due to fear of discrimination during their studies and in professional employment. Many students went to considerable efforts to hide their mental health condition and in doing so struggled to meet university requirements. Of the minority who did disclose, most received helpful assistance with both their studies and management of their mental health condition. The university was the main source of support services including counselling, disability, student union and housing. A range of measures are required to address the impact of stigma and mental health to empower students so that they can disclose in the confidence that they will be treated fairly.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology
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- Comparing Mental Health Issues Among Undergraduate and Graduate Students (2013, background): “Stigma also influences college students’ abilities to access appropriate services.(42,43) A lack of understanding among family and friends, fear of appearing weak, and limited knowledge of how to access services are cited as additional major reasons for refusal to seek help.”
- Students with disabilities in higher education: a biographical-narrative approach to the role of lecturers (2015, background): “In other prior works, Allard (1987), Martin (2010) and Mullins and Preyde (2013), as in ours, it was recognized that responses are more inclusive towards those students with visible disabilities.”
- Difficulties for University Students with Mental Health Problems: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis (2013, background): “…was highly prevalent in the literature, permeating each of the difficulties mentioned in this review 90 The Review of higheR educaTion Fall 2013 (Martin, 2010; Megivern, Pellerito, & Mowbray, 2003; Mowbray & Megivern, 1999; Tinklin, Riddell, & Wilson, 2005; Weiner, 1999; Weiner & Wiener, 1996).”
- Reported Accommodations and Supports Provided to Secondary and Postsecondary Students With Disabilities (2015, background): “Other data from the viewpoint of students point to the importance of self-advocacy and indicate that some do not feel the need to disclose their disability or choose not to because of fear of being stigmatized (Martin, 2010; Salzer, Wick, & Rogers 2008).”
- University student perspectives on institutional non-disclosure of disability and learning challenges: reasons for staying invisible (2019, background): “Some studies are focussed on specific conditions such as mental health (Martin 2010; n = 54) or students from single disciplines/departments (Cole and Cawthon 2015).”