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Student Mental health Issues

As this brief has to have a personal aspect my association with mental health issues focuses mostly around the ages of 16-20. And I also am very aware of my students at university, college and sixth form with mental health issues. Therefore is to create an outcome that will support people during this hard time.

https://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/studenthealth/Pages/Mentalhealth.aspx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-41148704

Almost five times as many students as 10 years ago have disclosed a mental health condition to their university, say researchers. In 2015-16, more than 15,000 UK-based first-year students disclosed mental health issues, Institute of Public Policy Research analysis suggests. The 2006 figure was about 3,000 and the rise risks overwhelming university services, the IPPR says.

Until 2009-10, the rate of male and female students reporting mental health issues was about the same, at about 0.5%. By 2015, however, it had risen to 2.5% of female students and 1.4% of male students.

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/08/09/quarter-britains-students-are-afflicted-mental-hea/

Female students are more likely to say they have mental health problems than males (34% vs 19%), and LGBT students have a particularly high likelihood of mental health problems compared to their heterosexual counterparts (45% vs 22%).

'Anxiety and stress are commonplace among students, and the effects are often obstructive. Six in ten (63%) students say that they feel levels of stress that interfere with their day to day lives. Additionally, 77% of all students report that they have a fear of failure, with one in five of these saying that this fear is very prevalent in their day to day life.'

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/23/number-university-dropouts-due-to-mental-health-problems-trebles

Data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) revealed that a record 1,180 students who experienced mental health problems left university early in 2014-15, the most recent year in which data was available. It represents a 210% increase from 380 in 2009-10.

Heads of counselling services put the increase partly down to more students going to university with existing mental health problems. They said young people were under greater pressure to succeed, with social media putting their lives under a microscope. Catherine McAteer, the head of University College London’s student psychological services, said: “When I went to university I got a 2.1 and was perfectly happy and if I got a first I would be singing from the roof, but the pressure for them today means many think anything less than a first is a failure.”

https://www.ft.com/content/8e53ee5a-1e13-11e8-aaca-4574d7dabfb6

The pressures bearing down on them include the burden of debt to pay annual tuition fees that surpass £9,000 a year; an uncertain jobs market; overbearing parents and secondary schools; and social media platforms that give the impression everyone else is excelling at all times and in all realms.

You used to go to university to guarantee yourself a good job,” she said. “We pay thousands of pounds for the privilege of going to university but without any prospect of even getting a job.” Others complained they had come from pressurised secondary schools. One girl said: “There is huge pressure on ‘unis’ to do stuff — but they can only do so much.”

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/tips-for-everyday-living/student-life/#.WvIlRdPwab8