The University Of Notre Dame's Undergraduate Usage Of St. Liam's Health Center

The top 4 mental health issues facing college students are depression, anxiety, suicide, and eating disorders. Depression is a huge problem with college students mainly because depression is linked to and leads to suicide. If one and three college students are depressed that's 33% of students who are on a pathway to suicide. Anxiety is one of the main problems because

Mental health among college students has been proven to be a relevant social issue that our society faces. There are certainly a few different institutions that play a large role within the development of this social issue. The first institution, and the primary institution at play with this issue, is the higher education system. In terms of mental health and having access to resources, college students haven’t always been as lucky as they are today. One study in 2007 explains the story of Junior at Syracuse University (Kravets, 3081). Anita Rutman had a history of mental health issues; she even found herself being admitted to a mental health hospital. One morning in February, she threw herself off of the eighth floor of Boland Hall and landed on a patio and fortunately lived. However, her attempt stemmed from the university sending her letter three days prior that informed Anita that the school was planning to dismiss her because of her suicidal tendencies (Kravets, 3081). Anita later sued Syracuse for ten million dollars for malpractice and negligence in handling her condition.

To gather the necessary data to observe the effect of being an out-of-state student on mental health two groups will be studied and compared. The research will require $100,000 to conduct surveys, follow up interviews and pay for the researchers and data studies. With a team of four researchers 250,000 college students will be studied across the United States for two years. Half of the college students being studied will be out-of-state freshmen and the other will be in-state freshmen acting as the control for the experiment. Data will be collected in the form of online verified surveys and aggregated based on the state/region that students are from and other demographic information. The surveys will ask very direct and specific questions in order to obtain necessary information about the physical, mental and social strain they face. Questions will be unbiased and straightforward, and surveys will be anonymous. Questions will be worded as such: have you gained weight since starting college, how many hours of a week do you spend with friends, do feel frequently stressed and do you think about suicide. Also, out-of-state students will be asked where they were originally from and where they are now. The four researchers

St. Mary’s Regional Health Center have restructured the way health care services are fulfilled. We exist to improve the efficiency of healthcare services, by simply, focusing on the needs of our society. By redefining the way healthcare is delivered, we can better serve our community by offering a variety of services We intend to provide treatment options that are cost-effective, treatment that is relevant, and consistent with our objective and vision for this healthcare facility. Thank you for allowing St. Mary’s Regional Center to continue to serve you.

The study was conducted using a qualitative research method. The data was gathered from the St. Mary’s Medical Center's website, Palm Beach State College library database and Lantana Branch Public Library. After the analysis, it was discovered that the profit acquisition of the organization is low. Additionally, the financial leverage is high while the working capital is negative due to high borrowing rates. Besides the financial status, the analysis also revealed that the organizational structure alongside other internal factors equally contributed to organization’s crisis. As such, the results conclude that the organization has to change its hierarchical leadership style which affects other external factors; has to invest in more research

Mental health is a serious topic that is often not taken seriously. Due to my own struggles with depression, I have experienced the impact mental illness can have on a student’s life. Mental illness can make everyday life feel unbearable and can have just as serious of an effect on a person as a physical illness. The causes of increasing mental health problems in college students are numerous, and it will take work from both students and universities to overcome this problem, but change is necessary for the health of U.S. college students.

In Spring 2014, 43.7% of college students across the United States reported experiencing “above average” levels of stress and 11.0% reported feeling “tremendous” levels of stress within the last 12 months (“Spring 2014 Reference Group” 16). According to a another study done in 2010 by the Higher Education Research Institute at University of California, Los Angeles, college students’ perception of their mental health has been on a steady decline since 1985 (Pryor 2010). Elevated levels of stress while attending college has shown to have negative effects on both mental and physical health, but the article “How Stress Affects Your Heart” emphasizes the threat of stress to physical well being in the long-term as well. Indirectly, the article cites how chronic stress leads to unhealthy habits such as “smoking, being sedentary, overusing alcohol, and eating poorly or overeating”. Unhealthy habits such as these can result in an increased risk of developing hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol (“How Stress Affects Your Heart”). Stress can also directly affect you by increasing hormones that pose threats to cardiovascular health such as adrenaline and cortisol, and acute stress can cause a spike in blood pressure which increases the chance of a heart attack (“How Stress Affects Your Heart”). Therefore, as stress decreases health, enhanced stress in college students contributes to health disparities between students and non-students in the Unites States. However, varying

Like many of the questionnaires utilized for research in the articles used for this literature review, it was anonymous, and administered and collected during class. This form of data collection provided high turn in rates allowing researchers to have a wide study scale. According to Hicks, T., & Heastie, S., contrasting levels of stress and coping mechanisms were present in these students. It was noted that traditional college students experience more psychological stress than their nontraditional student counterparts. In addition, during the first year of college, the amount of stress experienced by students is the highest in comparison to stress in the remainder of the years. These results are especially important because it stresses the need for a strong health and wellness center within colleges and universities.

Thesis: Mental Illness in colleges needs to be addressed because of the rise in college students being diagnosed in mental health problems.

   Today a college education can overload students with too many stressful situations. Not only does Stress overload today's college students, but it is also the leading cause of personality disorders. In her essay, Cathy Bell explains that major depressive disorder strikes 5-12% of men and 10-20% of women; half of these people will have more than one occurrence and 15% of them will commit suicide ("Depression for the young"). For instance, many depressives are first recognized and treated during their years in college. For a large amount of people, depression exposes itself because of traumatizing experiences, such as leaving home and/or academic stress. For other students alcohol and drugs become a

Depression and anxiety among college students is something that experts have focused on for the past twenty years. The information they have been gathering ranges from the different stressors of college life to the effects of one's culture on how they deal with depression or anxiety symptoms. They have identified a few core characteristics of depression and thoughts of suicide. These are both serious concepts in which people need to seek help for. It is important for students to reach out to friends, family, or professionals to support them during this time. Many campuses offer counseling centers which are seeing many more people over the past few years.

Stress is no new phenomenon. It’s been around as long as man and has captivated scholars and physicians alike. With the growing demand for degrees in the professional world comes the growth of the number of college students. The relationship between stress and college students has become the subject of on-going research. Several studies show that stress in college students is increasing with time and the authors of those studies are attributing this to an increased number of students. Other research seems to indicate that it isn’t necessarily the stress that is increasing but the awareness of it. Increased awareness of stress, and its unique toll on individuals, allows colleges and students to recognize

- An increase of 30 percent in caseloads related to students seeking help for mental health issues between 2009 and 2010, and 2014 and 2015 at 93 university counseling centers. These mental health concerns showed prominence in anxiety and mood disorders, and suicidal thoughts, according to the Center for Collegiate Mental Health in 2015.

The impact of stress among college students may have a negative impact on the student’s psychological health. Research indicates that depression rates in college students have been increasingly rising over the years. In 2012, a study was conducted by the National Survey of Counseling Centers which resulted in 91% of the researchers found an increase in students with psychological needs. To resolve college students’ stressors, Surgeon General and additional research studies propose that students who are more active exhibit a decrease in stress, anxiety, and depression. In order to improve and retain a healthy lifestyle, physical activity

Campus mental health statistics paint an alarming picture of the incidence of suicide rates on college campuses and by some measures they are getting worse. Almost one in three students have admitted to considering suicide. Mental health needs on campus are real and serious, they are also growing, which is