Promoting Safe and Effective Transitions to College for Youth with Mental Health Conditions (eBook)

Adele Martel  MD, PhD Emeritus Medical Staff Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, ILJennifer Derenne MDClinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stanford University School of MedicineLucile Packard Children’s Hospital at StanfordDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford, CAPatricia K. Leebens MAT, MA, MDAssistant Clinical Professor, Yale Child Study CenterYale University New Haven, CT

 Section I: Background Chapters 1.     The Practice Gap in Healthcare Transition:  Focus on Young People Heading to College with a Mental Health Condition  2.       Essential Domains in Transition Planning and the Roles of Various Constituents  3.       The Range of Post-Secondary Options and Thinking about the Differences between High School and College  4.       Understanding Campus Mental Health Services and the Campus System of Care 5.       Adaptation of Pediatric Health Care Transition Guidelines for Use with Youth Heading to College with Mental Illness:  Building a Toolkit  Section II: Clinical Cases Focusing on Diagnosis 6.      “Perplexed in Translation”: Bringing a Language Disorder to College 7.       “There is my way…. and then there is my way” - College Transition Challenges for a Student on the Autism Spectrum 8.        “Time is Not on My Side” – A College Student with ADHD and a Reading Disability 9.        “Rob’s World: Evolving Psychosis and the Transition to College” 10.    “Coping with Highs and Lows”: A student with bipolar disorder goes to college 11.    “Driven to Depression” Overachieving College Student with Recurrent Depressive Episodes 12.    “There’s no Place Like Home”: The Challenge of Going to College with Separation Anxiety Disorder 13.    “This Beer Should Do the Trick”: College with a Social Anxiety Disorder 14.    “Anxiety Galore”: Transition to College with Generalized Anxiety Disorder 15.    “Just Right” Transitioning to College with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 16.    “My nightmares aren’t just about calculus 101”: Transitioning to College with PTSD 17.    “Too Much on My Plate”: Transitioning to College with an Eating Disorder 18.    “Transition in the Weeds”: Heading to College with Cannabis Use Disorder 19.   Stealing Youth:  Personality Disorder goes to College                      Section III.  Clinical Cases Focusing on Special Populations and Situations 20.    “Baby, Please Don’t Change”: Transitioning squared, transgender in college 21.   Juggling Priorities: Staying Sober in College as a Non-traditional Student 22.   Moving Forward by Taking Leave: A Paradoxical Path to Success 23.   Half a World Away: The Mental Health Journey of an International Student 24.    “If I Am Not an Athlete, Then Who Am I?”: Portrait of a Depressed Student-Athlete 25.   The Challenge of Coming in First: Helping First Generation College Students Win Beyond Getting In 26.   Fostering Transitions to College: Considerations for Youth Aging out of Foster Care 27.   Summary:  Lessons Learned