Tag: Mental Health: Page 13

Students

A Time To Grieve and Heal

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the most deadly and violent school shooting in American history.

April 15, 2008

Students

Colleges in Washington State Launch Student Mental Health Programs

High-profile campus killings spur the creation of mental health teams at colleges across Washington state. The goal is to watch troubled students.

April 9, 2008

Health

Wake Forest University Hosts Conference on Student Mental Health Issues

“Students are much more active and busy than they used to be,” Schubert says.

April 6, 2008

Home

Sex Offenders Collect Financial Aid

Prison inmates are ineligible for Pell Grants under a 1994 law, but some sex offenders are exploiting a loophole to pay for correspondence courses upon transferring to treatment facilities. Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla, is outraged by this use of limited college resources “while hardworking young people from lower-class families are flipping hamburgers to pay for college.”

March 17, 2008

STEM

Helping Foster Care Youth Access College

Aida Chávez was one of the thousands of foster youth who, when formally emancipated from the system at 18 years old, was not prepared. It was time to enter the real world: to get a job and go to college. But she had only $500 in her bank account.

January 9, 2008

Health

Number of Mental Health Patients Banned From Buying Guns Doubles Since Virginia Tech Shootings

WASHINGTON The number of people barred from buying guns because of mental health problems has more than doubled since a deranged student shot to death 32 students on a university campus last April, the Justice Department said Thursday.

November 29, 2007

HBCUs

Addressing the Mental Health Ailments Facing Black College Students

BALTIMORE If the walls of Cicely Evans’ office could talk, they would tell of the mental health ailments facing Black college students, including domestic violence, depression, anxiety, stress, unresolved issues of homosexuality and thoughts of suicide.

November 28, 2007

Home

CU-Boulder Set to Begin Requiring Background Checks of All New Hires

BOULDER Colo. The University of Colorado plans to make background checks a part of all hires and promotions after a former employee with a criminal history was accused of slashing a student with a knife.

November 19, 2007

Latinx

Study: Kids of Immigration Raid Arrestees Face Mental Problems

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. Amid thousands of children around the country distraught over a parent arrested in immigration raids, federal officials, school officials and advocates for immigrants argued over who was to blame for leading kids to post-traumatic stress disorder, separation anxiety and depression, as a study released last Wednesday found.

November 4, 2007

African-American

Addressing Anxiety, Depression and Suicide Among HBCU Students

In the wake the massacre at Virginia Tech and the recent shooting at Delaware State University, student mental health is becoming increasingly important to colleges and universities nationwide.

November 4, 2007

Native Americans

Scientists at University of North Dakota Find More Correlation Between Diabetes, Mental Health Among Native Americans Than Whites

Depressive symptoms are common among patients with diabetes and may have a significant impact on self-management and health outcomes.

October 31, 2007

LGBTQ+

Perspectives: Hanging Nooses, Hate Pose a National Health Risk

Addressing, preventing and eradicating hate is not just a “Black issue,” it is a human rights issue, says this group of psychology faculty from Pepperdine University. If we, as a nation, fail to address it, we are at risk for regression, for descending into a previous state of unhealthy functioning. Choice and free will are important concepts in mental health. What is our will as a nation? Do we choose to ignore these signs of impending illness and let the sickness of racism ravage the soul of our nation?

October 30, 2007