Mental health among higher education faculty, administrators, and graduate students : a critical perspective / edited by Teresa Heinz Housel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Housel, Teresa Heinz, 1972- editor.

Series:

Lexington Studies in Health Communication Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Research.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]

Summary:

Mental Health among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Students argues that mental illness stigma surrounds not being able to cope with the rigors of academia is viewed as personal weakness. It examines the complex mental health issues in higher education and offers best practices for institutions from a communication approach.

Contents:

The perfect storm of mental health-related issues in academia and the need for critical research and policies / Teresa Heinz Housel

Anxiety in academia : an autoethnographic account / Andrea L. Meluch

Structuration of U.S. communication graduate students' stress / Rahul Mitra, Nubia Brewster, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Julia Grzywinski, Elizabeth-Ann Pandzich

"Burn it down" : the graduate student burnout experience / Victoria McDermott, Nike Bahr

Effects of chronic exposure to invalidation on people of color in academia : an exploratory study / Juan S. Muhamad, Jessica Wendorf Muhamad, Maria Elena Villar

Mental health of first-generation university graduate students : a critical narrative review / Erinn C. Cameron

Give and take : exploring the role of confidants when friends disclose chronic and/or mental health-related information / Robert D. Hall

The academic amygdala : tropes of PTSD in higher education news coverage / Alena Amato Ruggerio, Erica Knotts

Culturally sensitive mental health support for higher education employees / Lukasz Swiatek, Ursula Edgington

Having emotional support animals at college / Susan Hafen

Navigating boundaries while creating safe spaces for faculty and students / Sandra Smeltzer, Dave M. Walton, Nicole Campbell

The mental health impacts of making a workers compensation claim for a mental injury / Philip Dearman, Beth Edmondson

Appendix. Mental-health related resources for the communication classroom / Teresa Heinz Housel, Andrea L. Meluch, Vanessa R. Sperduti, Sandra Smeltzer.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Housel, Teresa Heinz Mental Health among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Students

ISBN:

1-7936-3025-9

OCLC:

1375296070