Responding to mental health issues in the college classroom

Goldman, Zachary W.

doi:10.1080/03634523.2018.1465191

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“…Such statements could address other precarities by directing students to information on childcare services or food pantries at the university, if applicable. As others have noted (Goldman, 2018), including such statements in the course syllabus not only establishes a culture of open and supportive communication, but can be used to set boundaries and expectations for appropriate discussions between teachers and students. Together with the use of regular check-ins and updates regarding student services and self-care, these actions help to create a supportive environment in the classroom.…”

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Precarity, citizenship, and the “traditional” student

Bahrainwala

2020

Communication Education

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Precarity, or the condition of continual wage insecurity, is shaping a generation of U.S. college students that suffer continually under poor material conditions, exploitative work schedules, and institutions that do not recognize their precarity. I ground the latter point-that higher education does not recognize the needs of its student precariat-in the argument that such institutions are oriented toward the specter of the traditional student, a concept suffused with citizenship rhetorics. In this paper, I examine the discursive construct of the traditional student, and how it deploys rhetorics of citizenship that deepen exclusions and contribute to student precarity in U.S. higher education. National survey data reveal that college students in the U.S. are experiencing acute precarities on multiple fronts. A startling 60% were food-insecure in 2019, with more students of color, students in 2-year colleges, and LGBTQ+ students reporting food insecurity (AAC&U News, 2019). Over two-thirds of all U.S. students graduate with an average of $30,000 in debt (Dynarski, 2015) at a time when an undergraduate degree has all but become a requirement for an entry-level job. Additionally, a quarter of all university students work full-time to put themselves through college, while 40% work at least 30 h a week (Deruy & National Journal, 2015). Similarly, faculty experience parallel precarities as tenure-track opportunities shrink (Harris, 2019), research expectations balloon (Kafka, 2018), and contingent labor becomes the new majority of faculty labor in the U.S. (Murray, 2019). College students then experience the pressures of faculty contingency secondhand when they are unable to develop relationships or request recommendations from instructors whose labor is stretched across multiple campuses. This carries costs for student learning, which becomes shaped by what McConnell (2019) calls a pedagogy of the transitory, which identifies contingency as a communicative phenomenon and a culturally thick experience that shapes the college learning environment (2019). Students and their faculty imbibe what Rifenburg, Johnston, Ng, and Carney (2019) call the labor casualization of the expanding neoliberal university, which expects faculty and students to labor beyond the classroom through scholarly and civic engagement, public intellectual work, and unpaid internships, with little thought to material compensation and domestic burdens. Given these documented precarities, it is important to ask how institutions discursively orient away from the student precariat and their needs, which in turn reproduces these cycles of precarity. In this essay, I reflect on the notion of the student-citizen to consider

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Precarity, citizenship, and the “traditional” student

Bahrainwala

2020

Communication Education

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“…Instructors are in a position to make help seeking normative given they are often looked up to by students and are in positions of authority. Specifically, instructors may be able to help reduce help seeking stigma and increase awareness around psychological services available to students through their course syllabi (Goldman, 2018).…”

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Syllabus Tone, More Than Mental Health Statements, Influence Intentions to Seek Help

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Galardi

2021

Teaching of Psychology

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Background: Mental health issues are increasing in higher education and finding ways for students to get help when needed is important. Objective: We tested if the tone of a short syllabus and the presence of a special statement addressing mental health would increase intentions to approach instructors for help. Method: We used a 2 (Tone: warm vs. cold) × 2(Statement: present vs. absent) experimental design. Participants (N = 257) read one of four, two-page syllabi, and rated intentions to reach out for help and the instructor. Results: We found a main effect for tone on three Reach Out statements and ratings of the instructor. Presence of the statement influenced likelihood to reach out for help with personal problems. Conclusions: Both the tone of a short syllabus and the presence of statements normalizing reaching out for help can influence student intentions to contact instructors for help. Teaching Implications: Writing a warm toned syllabus and addressing stress and mental health with a university statement may increase student’s intentions to ask for help.

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Navigating the support landscape: Bridging the divide between social support in business schools and student mental health

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Saffie Robertson

2023

The International Journal of Management Education

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Responding to mental health issues in the college classroom

Cited by 8 publications

References 42 publications

Precarity, citizenship, and the “traditional” student

Precarity, citizenship, and the “traditional” student

Syllabus Tone, More Than Mental Health Statements, Influence Intentions to Seek Help

Navigating the support landscape: Bridging the divide between social support in business schools and student mental health

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