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Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Covering social issues, independent living, academic challenges, student services and emotional wellbeing, this is the one-stop shop for advice on the transition from school to college or university. The book examines the skills that students need to live and function at college, and the skills parents need to let their teens navigate college without a parent as intermediary. It offers ways to combat common problems that affect the mental health of...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An essential guide to tackling what students, families, and educators can do now to cut through stress and performance pressure, and find a path to purpose. Today's college-bound kids are stressed, anxious, and navigating demands in their lives unimaginable to a previous generation. They're performance machines, hitting the benchmarks they're "supposed" to in order to reach the next tier of a relentless ladder. Then, their mental and physical exhaustion...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Most mental illnesses start to arise in the later teen years and early twenties, making college-age young adults a vulnerable population. Here, Marcia Morris looks at the most common mental health issues facing this age group and what parents can do to recognize symptoms, get treatment, and support their children through these challenging years.
5) The stressed years of their lives: helping your kid survive and thrive during their college years
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"From two leading child and adolescent mental health experts comes a guide for the parents of every college and college-bound student who want to know what's normal mental health and behavior, what's not, and how to intervene before it's too late. All parenting is in preparation for letting go. However, the paradox of parenting is that the more we learn about late adolescent development and risk, the more frightened we become for our children, and...
Author
Publisher
Leaping Hare Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Life can be tough. With decisions to make at such a critical time, from subject choices to new colleges and universities, careers and relationships, it's easy to feel weighed down. What's more, there is the pressure to gain good grades, to find a good job, to be a good person. From a young age we are taught the significance of a solid education and a fruitful career, yet with such an emphasis on academic and monetary success we often fail to prioritise...
7) The student
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Russian
Description
As Venya is finally exempted by the school's devout principal, he grows confident that his strict and rigorous study of the Bible gives him the ability to manipulate all forms of authority. Challenged by a teacher who refuses to consent to his dogma, he sets out to eliminate her and subdue an entire community.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"An innovative new book that provides a mix of information, resources, and self-assessment activities to help students reach and maintain their overall health. The book includes: information on how to assess your college fit academically and socio-emotionally, self-assessment activities that students can use to ID their specific stressors and ways to alleviate those issues, sections on physical, mental, and social wellness, each with data-backed insights...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"After Henry's girlfriend Val leaves him and transfers to another school, his grief begins to manifest itself in bizarre and horrifying ways. Cause and effect, once so reliable, no longer appear to be related in any recognizable manner. Either he's hallucinating, or the strength of his heartbreak over Val has unhinged reality itself. After weeks of sleepless nights and sick delusions, Henry decides to run away. If he can only find Val, he thinks,...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
A sports journalist relates the story of Ivy League freshman and track star Maddy Holleran, who seemingly had it all and succeeded at everything she tried, but who secretly grappled with mental illness before taking her own life during the spring semester.
"From noted ESPN commentator and journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania campus...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For The Real World of College, Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth interviews with more than 2,000 students, alumni, faculty, administrators, parents, trustees, and others, which were conducted at ten institutions ranging from highly selective liberal arts colleges to less-selective state schools. What they found challenged characterizations in the media: students are not preoccupied by political correctness, free speech, or even...
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Dear elia explores the many different kinds of unwellness that reside and proliferate among Asian Americans (and others) in the university, including pressures from immigrant families, the devaluing of critical ethnic studies and exploitation of contingent faculty, and the kinds of access and care demanded (and foreclosed) by approaches to COVID-19. Mimi Khúc offers a pedagogy of unwellness: the understanding that we are all unwell in different...
Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"The secret to making sure your college years are the best of your life is making time for self-care. If you've been working for hours on your latest paper, take a walk around campus to get moving. If you're feeling tired after a long week of classes and activities, give yourself permission to say no to those Friday night plans and take a relaxing evening for yourself. Self-Care for College Students offers suggestions that help you tackle every aspect...
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