May 31

Mental Health Of Students In Higher Education. RCPSYCH (UK). Report

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This document is one in a series of College Reports (previously known as Council Reports) prepared and made available on the Web by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPSYCH). Published in 2003, the report 'The Mental Health of Students in Higher Education' acknowledges that 'Higher education is associated with significant stressors, including the emotional demands of transition from home and school to the less structured environment of college, independent study and examinations, and financial pressures. While stress is not pathological in itself, these factors may contribute to the higher rate of emotional symptomatology among students'. The report aims to review the nature, prevalence and causes of students' mental health problems, and to review existing services. Conclusions and recommendations are provided. The appendices provide information on counselling in higher education, and a glossary of acronyms. The status of this report is current, as of May 2010. http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/files/pdfversion/cr112.pdf

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February 11

Angry Students

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Anger and Violence on Campus: Recommendations for Legal Educators
Source: University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper (via SSRN)

Recent rampage killings compel greater attention to anger and violence on the college campus. In each of these tragic mass murders, vengeful individuals sought to address perceived grievances against faculty and/or other employees of the university. In each of these situations, numerous clues of impending violence were evident. Sadly, however, in each of these cases the schools failed to take preventive actions. While prediction of violent behavior will never be an exact science, universities must begin to enact violence prevention strategies. Maintaining an attitude that ‘this couldn’t happen here’ hampers the necessary education of faculty, staff, and security personnel.

Our purpose in this paper is to provide guidelines for dealing with angry students. Additionally, we will point out characteristics of potentially violent students and suggest some violence prevention measures. Although we will touch on security issues, our goal is to help law educators prevent students from erupting violently rather than to stop a mass murder already in progress.

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July 13

Restructuring Of College Mental Health Services

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Falling through the Cracks - Virginia Tech and the Restructuring of College Mental Health Services
Source: New England Journal of Medicine

Since April 16, when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho gunned down 27 fellow students and 5 faculty members and injured 24 other people before taking his own life, some disturbing facts about his mental health history have emerged. At various points during Cho's college career, Virginia Tech police officers, professors, and students recognized that he was mentally troubled, but although state psychiatric evaluators once briefly committed him to a psychiatric hospital, it is unclear whether anyone from the school monitored him after his release. These discoveries have left investigators wondering whether the killings could have been prevented - and college mental health specialists debating the best way to keep other disturbed students from falling through the cracks.

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