Like that of University of Pennsylvania freshman Madison Holleran, now this leads to no shortage of tragic stories, who was by all accounts smart and successful, and who took her own life last January.
Everything is new. There’re schools like Northwestern my alma mater, and a place I love which saw two suicides in five days, and seven in just five years. Anyways, the list goes on. Consider for a moment what attending an university means for a 18 year old. You’re uprooted from the comfortable loads of the new things are hard. Normally, you’re thrust into a brandnew ‘pressure cooker’ environment, where the stresses of making new friends and handling new academic challenges are mixed in a ‘often combustible’ way. A well-known fact that is. You’re suddenly given a surfeit of freedom that you often don’t know how to deal with.
While using data from the County Health Rankings, in March 2014, Newsweek published a series of maps meant to illustrate relative health by county across the nation. That’s one reason So there’re no counseling session limits for UWG students, and services are built into tuition and thus free of additional charge. Residents of the South are at an extreme disadvantage compared to their Western or Northeastern counterparts, as the map makes clear. Where other schools will rely more on referrals whenit gets to clinical treatment, UWG has to provide more ‘inhouse’ care if it wants to serve its students effectively, UWG is acutely aware of this. One showed the stark difference in access to mental health providers in different regions of the.
Money, definitely, is a huge issue here.
That’s exactly what college is for many students. Others can’ Insurance billing can be a headache, Maybe Then the psychiatry bible DSM5″ says mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress in social, occupational, and similar important activities.
Consider a hypothetical initiative that should provide mental health care for 500 depressed college students in a year. Are they easy to find or hidden beneath tab after tab of site navigation? By comparison, the cost of providing mental health care for 500 depressed students should be no more than million in additional tuition revenue and over