Mental Health in American Colleges and Universities: Variation Across Student Subgroups and Across Campuses

By D. Eisenberg, J. Hunt, N. Speer. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2013

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Who cares for academics? We need to talk about emotional well-being including what we avoid and intellectualise through macro-discourses (2019, background): “Space given to speaking about emotions in higher education literature often focuses on the emotional lives of students (Eisenberg et al., 2013; Woods, 2010) whom academics are expected to care for, rather than considering who might care for academics.”
The WHO World Mental Health Surveys International College Student Project: Prevalence and Distribution of Mental Disorders (2018, positive): “…r th e pe rs on al us e of th e in di vi du al us er an d is no t to be di ss em in at ed br oa dl y. (mostly conducted in the United States; e.g., Eisenberg et al., 2013; Pedrelli, Borsari, Lipson, Heinze, & Eisenberg, 2016), and similarly, the elevated odds of disorder among students with…”
How universities can enhance student mental wellbeing: the student perspective (2019, background): “…of mental health difficulties in college populations, but also a higher prevalence of anxiety among women, and a higher prevalence of mental health problems among students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and those with minority sexual orientations or gender identities (Eisenberg et al., 2013).”
College Students: Mental Health Problems and Treatment Considerations (2014, background): “Another common mental health problem among college students is depression, with prevalence rates in college students of 7 to 9 % [1, 9].”