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- Improving University Mental Health
- Improving University Mental Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements and Thanks to Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introducing This Handbook
- Chapter 2 Building a New Sense of Belonging
- Chapter 3 The Transition to University for New Students with Pre-Existing Mental Conditions
- Chapter 4 The Roles of Parents and Carers
- Chapter 5 Healthy Bodies, Body Image Concerns, Eating Disorders
- Chapter 6 Alcohol
- Chapter 7 Substance Misuse
- Chapter 8 Social (and Anti-social) Media
- Chapter 9 Finance and Mental Health
- Chapter 10 Neurodiversity
- Chapter 11 Ethnically Diverse University Communities
- Chapter 12 Sexual Behaviour and Gender Identity in Universities
- Chapter 13 The Mental Health of Teaching and Academic Staff
- Chapter 14 An Overview of Mental Disorders in Students and Staff
- Chapter 15 ‘Psychotic’ Disorders
- Chapter 16 Mood Disorders
- Chapter 17 Suicide at University
- Chapter 18 Mental Health Services on Campus and in the NHS
- Chapter 19 Students of the Professions and ‘Fitness to Practise’ Issues
- Chapter 20 Summing It All Up
- Index
- References
Chapter 18 - Mental Health Services on Campus and in the NHS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2024
- Improving University Mental Health
- Improving University Mental Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements and Thanks to Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introducing This Handbook
- Chapter 2 Building a New Sense of Belonging
- Chapter 3 The Transition to University for New Students with Pre-Existing Mental Conditions
- Chapter 4 The Roles of Parents and Carers
- Chapter 5 Healthy Bodies, Body Image Concerns, Eating Disorders
- Chapter 6 Alcohol
- Chapter 7 Substance Misuse
- Chapter 8 Social (and Anti-social) Media
- Chapter 9 Finance and Mental Health
- Chapter 10 Neurodiversity
- Chapter 11 Ethnically Diverse University Communities
- Chapter 12 Sexual Behaviour and Gender Identity in Universities
- Chapter 13 The Mental Health of Teaching and Academic Staff
- Chapter 14 An Overview of Mental Disorders in Students and Staff
- Chapter 15 ‘Psychotic’ Disorders
- Chapter 16 Mood Disorders
- Chapter 17 Suicide at University
- Chapter 18 Mental Health Services on Campus and in the NHS
- Chapter 19 Students of the Professions and ‘Fitness to Practise’ Issues
- Chapter 20 Summing It All Up
- Index
- References
Summary
Students and staff are provided with a range of mental health supports, many of them boasting excellent outcomes, but not always adequately connected up. Counsellors, Mental Health Advisors and Mental Health Mentors are available without fee to most university students. These are well researched and evidenced in the treatment of mild to moderate mental illnesses and in the support of people with longer term disorders. Chaplaincy takes many forms and is also a widely available but less well evidenced. There is still much work to do in terms of integrating different services around a vulnerable student. The challenge is greatest when NHS as well as in-house university services are needed. Students with severe mental disorders require longer courses of therapy than university Counselling services routinely offer, and arrangements for treatment during vacations are essential. Integrative models such as that piloted in Greater Manchester show promise, but smaller, less urban universities need different solutions. More than half of universities have no GP on campus. Workforce shortages and funding anomalies make it ever more difficult for GPs to co-ordinate the care of their university patients.
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- Improving University Mental Health , pp. 280 - 299Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024