Research Help
Your 4–6-minute video should critically examine mental health and wellbeing among college students through a social science lens.
You may choose to examine mental health and wellbeing among college students through one or more of these subjects within the social sciences:
- economics
- political science
- psychology
- sociology
- education
Be sure to include social science concepts and/or theories in your research and final product.
The main purpose is to enhance understanding of your topic and propose real solutions.
Remember to:
- Incorporate a minimum of one scholarly (credible) source using APA Style to support/demonstrate your understanding of this topic.
- Review the grading rubric carefully to understand the judging criteria for this contest.
Consider these questions as you create your topic:
- What role should the social sciences play in the analysis of mental health and wellbeing among college students?
- How has social science research helped you to better understand the impacts of college student mental health and wellbeing on the individual, community, and society?
- What are some of the key ways to address the impacts of college student mental health and wellbeing on individuals, communities and society?
Keyword/Topics:
- To help you get started, mix and match suggested keywords in the table below, to both create and search for a topic
| emotion(al) | degree-seeking | treatment | wellbeing | |
| mental health | academic(s) | college students | well-being | |
| stress(es) | illness(es) | self-care | anxiety | |
| lifestyle | safety | mental illness | social media | |
| therapy | environment | relationships | social norms | |
| trauma | nature | cope | coping | |
| energy | substance use | disorder(s) | abuse | societal |
| psychological | holistic | expression | ||
| suicide | communities | depression | society |
As you research:
- Beware of your own personal biases and be open to considering information that challenges your opinions
- Try switching out keywords in search boxes to get different results
- Save the article permalink (in Databases) for any source that you may need to return to later
Websites to get you started:
Treatment-focused sources:
Law-focused sources:
Government/non-profit research sources:
We think these Library Databases with scholarly information will be useful:
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- Academic Search Complete - find general information about many different aspects of your topic
- Opposing Viewpoints - get articles/essays/reports that explore multiple viewpoints of a topic
- PsycArticles (EBSCO) - find articles that have a psychology/mental health focus
- Social Science Journals - find articles that discuss topics through a social science lens/approach
We think these Library eBooks may be helpful:
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Self-Care and Stress Management for Academic Well-Being by
Self-care is a topic that is often challenging in education. Educators are required to learn to teach, advise, and cope with organizational change as well as encourage their students to take responsibility for their actions, say no, identify burnout, establish a network of family and friends, schedule breaks, do things they enjoy, and take care of themselves physically. However, teachers often do not follow these guidelines themselves. It is important that teachers allow themselves the time and space to do the same things that they insist their students do. Moreover, it is important that administrators recognize and support these efforts as well. Self-Care and Stress Management for Academic Well-Being discusses why self-care for educators is needed in order for them to sustain the growth of the students at their institutions. It explores the ways in which educators devote themselves to helping students develop their creativity and their academic voices but do not always give themselves the same permission. Covering a range of topics such as physical care, stress, and self-advocacy, this reference work is ideal for researchers, academicians, practitioners, scholars, administrators, instructors, and students.
ISBN: 1668423375Publication Date: 2022-06-24
College Psychiatry by
This book explores the practical strategies outlined by national thought leaders to improve access to mental health care in the practice of college psychiatry. It addresses the escalating need for mental health services on college and university campuses. Concise yet comprehensive, the book considers the college experience for the increasingly diverse student body, including non-traditional college students, first-generation college students, and students with a history of mental illness. Beginning with a discussion on the current national health trends in college mental health, chapter one explores the current epidemiology of student mental health problems, the systemic challenges in recruitment, and funding psychiatric services. Subsequent chapters then delve into the various systems and models of psychiatric care for college students, including differing parental involvement levels and the importance of collaborative care to short term management and referral of students at risk. Chapters five and six examine mental health considerations for LGBTQ, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color students. Further chapters analyze the critical nature of successfully navigating a leave of absence, as well as the consideration of threat assessment on college campuses. The book closes with a highly relevant evaluation of telemental health and telepsychiatry in the College Setting as it pertains to the ongoing barriers to care caused by COVID-19. Socially conscious and timely, College Psychiatry is an indispensable text for all mental health professionals.​
ISBN: 3030694674Publication Date: 2021-05-31
Delivering Effective College Mental Health Services by
An essential guide to organizing and offering mental health services on campus. Stressed by increasing student demand for mental health services, campus counseling centers across the country are grappling with how best to deliver ethical, effective, and efficient service. Hampered by limited budgets, most centers find it deeply challenging to address growing college mental health service needs. Yet little conceptual training is provided to student affairs, higher education, health, and mental health professionals who deliver campus mental health services. In Delivering Effective College Mental Health Services, psychologist Lee Keyes aims to change that. He offers sound, field-tested advice for creating a congruent, cross-division, and service-oriented college counseling enterprise that best fits its campus culture and students. This useful handbook for administering counseling services * poses questions and offers practical advice to help college counseling centers form a consistent philosophical model * lays out conceptual groundwork for constructing college counseling services, from training activities to counseling/psychotherapy processes * takes into account the pressures (time related, economic, political, cultural) that strain universities * explains how to cultivate an accurate and empathic response to each individual, their entire history and context, and their possible life trajectory Written by a leading provider of college mental health services, Delivering Effective College Mental Health Services is an essential guide to organizing and offering mental health services on university and college campuses.
ISBN: 1421428865Publication Date: 2019-05-21
Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom by
How teachers can help combat higher education's mental health crisis. Mental health challenges on college campuses were a huge problem before COVID-19, and now they are even more pronounced. But while much has been written about higher education's mental health crisis, very little research focuses on the role played by those on campus whose influence on student well-being may well be greatest: teachers. Drawing from interviews with students and the scholarship of teaching and learning, this book helps correct the oversight, examining how faculty can--instead of adding to their own significant workloads or duplicating counselors' efforts--combat student stress through adjustments to the work they already do as teachers. Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom provides practical tips that reduce unnecessary discouragement. It demonstrates how small improvements in teaching can have great impacts in the lives of students with mental health challenges, while simultaneously boosting learning for all students.
ISBN: 9781952271816Publication Date: 2023-04-01
Nurturing Wellbeing in Academia by
To thrive in academia, wellbeing must be understood and nurtured. Recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic has left the landscape of higher education altered and uncertain, resulting in a range of important considerations which can jeopardise wellbeing and positive mental health of those working within the academic community. Written with a core understanding of wellbeing and the different challenges and stresses on our mental health, this easily digestible and accessible text encourages those in academia to reflect upon how they are functioning, both in and out of the classroom, offering a range of suggestions for smarter ways of working. A deeper discussion threads through on the balance between job satisfaction and life satisfaction, and calls educators and academics to remember why they entered academia in the first place and how to maintain these values in a way that continues to inspire and drive us. Containing 'critical questions', Nurturing Wellbeing in Academiaprovides useful, practical ideas to help maintain or to recapture a feeling of wellbeing. Topics discussed include applying for promotions, research grants, mentoring, using social media and publishing pressures. This is an ideal resource for those who may be considering transitioning into higher education, helping to prepare them for the challenges and cognitive load that academia can bring.
ISBN: 1837979499Publication Date: 2024-09-30
Madness Reimagined [PDF] by
Madness Reimagined: Envisioning a Better System of Mental Health in America provides a comprehensive analysis of the current mental health system in the United States. Presented from a sociological rather than a psychological perspective, this book seeks to provide readers with an extensive but accessible look at its history, the current mental health treatment modalities, the various mental health practitioners, the different conditions known as mental health disorders, as well as strategies for improving the system. Trained both in clinical and applied therapy and sociology, the author aims to provide a balance to the work that other books on mental health often lack. As a result, this book proposes a dual approach to the study of mental health. Dr. Steverson acknowledges that while disorders and treatment modalities require a micro-level (intrapsychic) approach, the overall analysis of the mental health system demands a macro-level (sociological) approach. Due to the recent changes in the American healthcare system and the concerns this has raised, this book is a necessary and important contribution to its field. It also reflects a growing desire from the public to better understand this subject as mental health issues continue to gain visibility in the public eye. Free of psychological jargon and in an accessible format, this book will not only appeal to academics and students, but also to mental health consumers, their families, and people who are interested in advocacy.
ISBN: 1622736826Publication Date: 2019-07-15
College Student Mental Health and Wellness by
Recent data indicates that the psychological distress of college students is on the rise. College students are increasingly culturally diverse and psychological distress in some areas is greater for minoritized students. College Student Mental Health and Wellnessaddresses this phenomenon that has been referred to in the popular media as the 'college mental health crisis' in a comprehensive and data-driven way. Jeffrey A. Hayes moves us forward in our understanding of these issues so that we might more effectively work with our students and those who support them. Chapters cover theories of college student development and common psychological problems among college students (including anxiety, depression and substance abuse), and important aspects of college student well-being (such as identity, peer relationships and career preparedness). Drawing on a large amount of data collected from both students in the general population as well as those seeking mental health services at U.S. colleges and universities, College Student Mental Health and Wellness illuminates the types of distress on the rise, the potential underpinnings of this distress and how administrators, educators, mental health professionals and others might better understand and work with these issues.
ISBN: 9781835491966Publication Date: 2024-08-06
