The Campus Cure

A Parent's Guide to Mental Health and Wellness for College Students

By (author) Marcia Morris MD

Paperback - £19.99

Publication date:

02 January 2018

Length of book:

254 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781538104521

Did you know that one of four college students was diagnosed with a mental health disorder in the last year? College students are experiencing anxiety, depression, alcohol abuse, and other mental health issues at alarming rates in a landscape of growing academic, social, and financial pressures. As a college mental health psychiatrist for over two decades and a mother of two twenty-somethings, Marcia Morris has witnessed the ways problems can derail students from their goals, while parent interventions at critical junctures can help get students back on track.

The Campus Cure: A Parent Guide to Mental Health and Wellness for College Students is a first aid guide to your child’s emotional health, preparing you to handle the mental health problems and emotional ups and downs many young adults experience in college. With anecdotes and the latest scientific literature, this book will increase your awareness of common problems, pressures, and crises in college; illustrate how you can support your child and collaborate with campus resources; and provide stories of hope to parents who often feel alone and overwhelmed when their child experiences a mental health problem. While you have the passion to help your child, this book will provide you with the tools to guide your child toward health and happiness in the college years.
This volume is targeted toward parents of college-aged children facing mental health challenges. Morris (Univ. of Florida) presents 12 chapters organized into sections that explore problems, pressures, and crises. The problems section includes separate chapters on anxiety, depression, substance use disorders, and academic failure to thrive; other issues the text tackles include perfectionism, financial stress, sexual assault and intimate partner violence, and eating disorders. Each chapter opens with a case study describing a student in distress, provides an overview of the disorder or issue, and offers tangible suggestions for parents. . . What makes this book exceptionally valuable is its intended audience. Though faculty and staff can benefit from this resource, its primary focus is parents, and it provides practical guidance to those worrying about their children. Much the way Coburn and Treeger's iconic Letting Go provided a road map for parents sending their children off to college, this text provides foundational information about the mental health issues common to today’s college students.



Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.