Mental Health Issues In College

Mental health disorders are serious illnesses that affect many people every day. The number of people being affected by these illnesses is increasing every year with no signs of letting up, causing psychologists to be concerned. One group of people that is extremely affected by this are college students. As college students make a huge transition in their lives they begin to cross obstacles. One of these obstacles being mental health issues.
The book College Student Mental Health Counseling: A Developmental Approach written by Suzanne Degges-White and Christine Borzumato-Gainey is a counseling handbook that looks at the point of view of how colleges impact students’ mental health biologically, psychologically, and socially. It also discusses
She talks about the growing amount of mental services across the US and how to diagnose and treat someone who has a mental disorder. She uses statistics to help explain the growth in mental services "In the 2011 National Survey of College Counseling Center Directors which represents 228 centers across the United States 64% of centers have access to on campus psychiatric consultation" (Iraovici 14). The authors agree that the more mental services are becoming available at colleges. Stanley and Jill discuss how mental health services started emerging in the late 1900s in the UK as a way to help people who are going through these illnesses and that people used the UK as model to help figure out ways to improve them. "This was developed in response to the mental health needs of a predominately 18-25 year old undergraduate population attending universities away from their home base and those of international students" (Stanley and Jill
The book focuses on examining the needs of students with mental health issues such as and also provides an idea of some solution that could be used to help solve these issues. Stanley and Jill discuss how students with mental disorders and other disabilities may need accommodations to help them adapt to their environment. They use the Human Rights Act of 1998 and the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995 to help make their case stronger and suggest that there needs to be more programs available “The HEFCE guidance also noted that many HEI report expanding number of students with mental health problems. These, it argued should be responded to by a level of services which, at their minimum or base-line should include encouragement to students to air their problems, help to find appropriate support, and the possible involvement of mental health specialists in assessment,” (Stanley and Jill 16). Degges-White and Christine discuss how discrimination has long been a problem on college campuses in a section of their book. However, they believe that solving mental health problems will take more than just providing services that seem to help/protect the students as many students are still being discriminated against due to their mental diorders."Although