A Review of Mental Health in Education Articles

The school is not solely responsible for creating student’s mental illness, but the school could play an important role in responding to it.

The increasing of student’s mental illness becomes one of the biggest issues for today’s education. Students who come to campus carrying a variety of minds, pressures, fears, and problems. This becomes the reason why the college has an important role in how responding to student’s mental health. If a school doesn’t really care, then the school could be the one who will responsible for creating student’s mental health problems.

A wide of difficulties that we often face at college unconsciously could lead us to mental health problems. Stressful assignments, pop quizzes, a tight schedule, tough competition among students could increase our feeling of anxiety, stress, and depression. Despite this, the school is not solely responsible for creating student’s mental illness, but the school could play an important role in responding to it. Based on Center for Collegiate Mental Health’s 10th report in 2018 the experiences of 179,964 college students seeking mental health treatment. It becomes essential for the college to be aware and support student’s mental health, because mental illness becomes really common now, and it could develop when students are in their infancy. There are a few positive ways schools could give in responding to students’ mental health. The school may give special instruction or treatment to students who suffer from mental illness, allowing flexible deadlines for them, always give break time during the learning process. Giving the educators knowledge about children’s mental health also a crucial part. What is more, mental illness might affect student’s ability to succeed both in school and real life. Mental health problems are treatable, we just need to recognize them as soon as possible.

In my opinion, the articles I read around mental health in education talk more about the substance of college/school’s role in supporting student’s mental health condition. Frequently, in daily life teachers are still not aware of their student’s mental health. Those articles are interesting to read, especially for educators. The writers successfully bring their thoughts that completed with several shreds of evidence.

Author: Ni Made Kesi Sasmita

Articles’ sources:

Saloman, Laurie. (2019, April 29). Depression and Anxiety in College Students: A True Epidemic? https://www.psycom.net/depression-anxiety-college-students/

Team of Association for Children’s Mental Health. (n.d). Problem at School: Associated with Children’s Mental Health. http://www.acmh-mi.org/get-help/navigating/problems-at-school/

Crosier, David and Donkova, Ralitsa. (2017, December 19). Mental Health in education: an unspoken issue of our age. https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/focus-mental-health-education-unspoken-issue-our-age_mt