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Colleges struggle with growing mental health issues among students
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Despite efforts by four-year institutions to offer mental health services, recent data indicates a worrying trend among college students reporting suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms.
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A Johns Hopkins University analysis of data collected from more than 560,000 college students by the Healthy Minds Study and released this month found large increases in mental health symptoms from 2007 to 2022.
Suicidal ideation was up 154 percent, restlessness increased by 80 percent and trouble concentrating rose by more than 77 percent. Women, minority students and people experiencing financial difficulty were more likely to experience depressive symptoms.
“We have expanded services in colleges and universities, but we haven’t really redesigned the system. We’re still treating mental health as a service, instead of making it a campus-wide strategy. We need to invest in prevention and peer support,” said Pierluigi Mancini, interim president and CEO of Mental Health America…
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