With the publication of Mental Health Issues and the University Student, Doris Iarovici emerges as a leading voice in college psychiatry. This text is a lovely combination of current and extensive clinical wisdom. It is well organized and very readable and will be of great value to psychiatrists working in or with university students. -- Victor Schwartz, Medical Director, The Jed Foundation, co-editor of Mental Health Care in the College Community This timely and exceptionally well-written book comprehensively addresses the social issues and clinical challenges faced by college mental health professionals and includes such outstanding features as clinical vignettes, guidelines, best practices, and DSM-5 nosology. This volume should be required reading for all clinicians in college mental health and is indispensable for those teaching and supervising psychiatry residents, graduate psychology, and social work students within the student mental health setting. -- Jerald Kay, M.D., past Chair, American Psychiatric Association Committee and Caucus on College Mental Health, co-editor of Mental Health Care in the College Community
List of Tables and Figures
Part I. The Student in Context: The Interdependent
Campus
Chapter 1. Crisis on the College Campus?
Chapter 2. The Changing Face of the American University Student
Chapter 3. Generational Issues on Campus
Chapter 4. The Psychiatrist's Role in College Mental Health
Part II. Clinical Challenges
Chapter 5. Sleep Problems on Campus
Chapter 6. Alcohol on Campus
Chapter 7. Non-alcohol Substance Abuse on Campus
Chapter 8. Loneliness and Relationships on Campus
Chapter 9. Perfectionism
Chapter 10. Clash of Cultures: International Students
Chapter 11. Clash of Cultures: LGBT Students
Chapter 12. Disordered Eating
Chapter 13. Difficulty Concentrating
Chapter 14. Anxiety
Chapter 15. Depression and Other Mood Problems
Chapter 16. Psychotic Symptoms
Chapter 17. Emergency Situations on Campus
Chapter 18. Impulse Control Problems, Behavioral Addictions, and
Other Problematic Behaviors
Chapter 19. The Nontraditional Student
Chapter 20. Models of Treatment
Chapter 21. Treatment Challenges in the University Population
Epilogue. Student Emotional Well-Being: Looking toward the
Future
Notes
Index
Doris Iarovici, M.D., is a psychiatrist at Duke University Counseling and Psychological Services.
Iarovici navigates a passage between the science of diagnosis and the art of treatment. In doing so, she demonstrates an appreciation for the subtle nuances that affect the treatment of individuals poised on the cusp of adulthood. -- Joseph J. Guido PsycCRITIQUES I embarked on the reading of this book with great interest and was rewarded by the author's thoughtful analysis... a terrific texbook for psychiatric residents... very informative for university administrators in charge of program planning. -- Brunhild Kring American Journal of Psychiatry The particular strength of this book is the careful description of how these issues and problems manifest themselves in a higher education setting and the opportunities and challenges of addressing them in this setting. Choice I can picture myself in the middle of a complicated case reaching for this guide -- Suzanne Sorrentino, LCSW Journal of College Student Psychotherapy
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