Students and Mental Health

Wellcome Trust study aims to use  peer-delivered problem solving and behavioural activation – two strategies found to help improve symptoms of mental health problems – as standalone early interventions for young people with depression.

https://wellcome.org/news/university-students-depression-mental-health-interventions

There is no patient-provider confidentiality with AI Therapists!

https://theconversation.com/your-ai-therapist-is-not-your-therapist-the-dangers-of-relying-on-ai-mental-health-chatbots-225411

In 2022, 18% of children aged 7-to-16-years-old and 22% of young people aged 17-to-24 had a probable mental health condition. 

https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2024/research/urgent-childrens-mental-health

Yale-NUS introduces a for-credit “Resilience and Success in College” elective course for first-year students to help them with wellbeing

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20240415151821371

Students in Ireland are left “lost” to deal with their own mental health illness

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/01/23/camhs-left-more-than-100-children-without-care-for-up-to-two-years-report-finds/

Charities are paying College Fees during the Cost of Living Crisis:

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2023/01/22/hundreds-of-third-level-students-in-receipt-of-charity-to-pay-fees/

PhD students discuss how to deal with anxiety

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2022/12/19/mental-health-issues-among-grad-students-shouldnt-be-taboo-opinion

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