Mental Health among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Students

Dr. Teresa Heinz Housel is senior tutor in the School of Journalism, Communication, and Marketing at Massey University of New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Preface

Teresa Heinz Housel

Acknowledgments

Teresa Heinz Housel

Part One: Mental Distress and Mental Illness in Academic Culture

Chapter One: The Perfect Storm of Mental Health-Related Issues in Academia and the Need for Critical Research and Policies

Teresa Heinz Housel

Chapter Two: Anxiety in Academia: An Autoethnographic Account

Andrea L. Meluch

Chapter Three: Structuration of U.S. Communication Graduate Students’ Stress

Rahul Mitra, Nubia Brewster, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Julia Grzywinski, Elizabeth-Ann Pandzich

Chapter Four: “Burn It Down”: The Graduate Student Burnout Experience

Victoria McDermott, Nike Bahr

Part Two: Intersections of Mental Health and Marginalized Academic Populations: Cultural Representations and Institutional Climates

Chapter Five: Effects of Chronic Exposure to Invalidation on People of Color in Academia: An Exploratory Study

Juan S. Muhamad, Jessica Wendorf Muhamad, Maria Elena Villar

Chapter Six: Mental Health of First-Generation University Graduate Students: A Critical Narrative Review

Erinn C. Cameron

Chapter Seven: Give and Take: Exploring the Role of Confidants When Friends Disclose Chronic and/or Mental Health-Related Information

Robert D. Hall

Chapter Eight: The Academic Amygdala: Tropes of PTSD in Higher Education News Coverage

Alena Amato Ruggerio, Erica Knotts

Part Three: Institutional Policies on Mental Health and Recommendations for Best Practices

Chapter Nine: Culturally Sensitive Mental Health Support for Higher Education Employees

Lukasz Swiatek. Ursula Edgington

Chapter Ten: Having Emotional Support Animals at College

Susan Hafen

Chapter Eleven: Navigating Boundaries While Creating Safe Spaces for Faculty and Students

Sandra Smeltzer, Dave M. Walton, Nicole Campbell

Chapter Twelve: The Mental Health Impacts of Making a Workers Compensation Claim for a Mental Injury

Philip Dearman, Beth Edmondson

Appendix: Mental-Health Related Resources for the Communication Classroom

Teresa Heinz Housel, Andrea L. Meluch, Vanessa R. Sperduti, Sandra Smeltzer