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The invisible problem?Improving students'mental healthPoppy BrownWith a Foreword by the Rt Hon. Norman Lamb MPHigher Education Policy InstituteHEPI Re STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINALeport 88About the AuthorPoppy Brown is a third year undergraduate studying Psychology and Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. She is a volunteer for the education charity Schools Plus and the mental health charity Oxfordshire Mind, and is conducting a research project into So STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINALcial Anxiety Disorder. Her interests lie primarily in mental health research, but also using evidence from Psychology more generally to inform policy.STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINAL
TerminologyMental health and mental wellbeing: Having the emotional resilience to cope with everyday pressures, enjoy life and undertake productive woThe invisible problem?Improving students'mental healthPoppy BrownWith a Foreword by the Rt Hon. Norman Lamb MPHigher Education Policy InstituteHEPI Re STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINALdiagnosed mental illness.Mental illness, mental disorder and having a mental health condition: Qualified professionals use standardised measures to diagnose mental disorders. They 'arise from organic, genetic, psychological or behavioural factors ... and are not understood or expected as part of nor STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINALmal development or culture'.1Mental health is a spectrum spanning from mentally well to mentally ill. Everyone falls somewhere on the spectrum and movSTRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINAL
es along it. Cut off points for what counts as a disorder vary depending on the measure used.Diagnoses are useful for informing treatment and preventiThe invisible problem?Improving students'mental healthPoppy BrownWith a Foreword by the Rt Hon. Norman Lamb MPHigher Education Policy InstituteHEPI Re STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINALndividual's motivation to work through problems. Diagnoses are therefore not always necessary even when an individual meets the clinical criteria for a mental illness, such as depression. An individual may just be experiencing a normal reaction to a difficult life-event, for example bereavement. Man STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINALy higher education institutions (HEIs) define a mental health problem as severe if it is having an extended negative effect on academic study that isSTRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINAL
unexpected and not attributable to contextual circumstances.www.hepi.ac.uk1Mental health difficulties, problems and issues: Unless defined otherwise, The invisible problem?Improving students'mental healthPoppy BrownWith a Foreword by the Rt Hon. Norman Lamb MPHigher Education Policy InstituteHEPI Re STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINALillness without a full diagnosis.2The invisible problem? Improving students'mental healthForewordThe Rt Hon. Norman Lamb MPThis has been an important year in the mission to achieve genuine equality for mental health. NHS England's independent Mental Health Taskforce, which was set up to bring an end STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINAL to the discrimination faced by people suffering from mental illness in the NHS, has given US a roadmap for achieving equal rights to effective treatmSTRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINAL
ent between mental and physical health, which is long overdue.Building on much of the work we started when I was Ministerfor Care and Support, it setsThe invisible problem?Improving students'mental healthPoppy BrownWith a Foreword by the Rt Hon. Norman Lamb MPHigher Education Policy InstituteHEPI Re STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINALcandalous practice of shunting people across the country at a moment of crisis because there is no care available close to home.Being back on the opposition benches is endlessly frustrating, but I am committed to doing everything I can to hold the Government and NHS England's feet to the fire and ma STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINALke sure that this vision is delivered in full. However, one area where the strategy is conspicuously quiet is on the mental health of students in highSTRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINAL
er education.As an MP, I regularly meet with university students all across the country and am struck by how often mental health is raised as one of tThe invisible problem?Improving students'mental healthPoppy BrownWith a Foreword by the Rt Hon. Norman Lamb MPHigher Education Policy InstituteHEPI Re STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINALself surrounded by hundreds of unfamiliar faces, new personalwww.hepi.ac.uk3responsibilities, and a demanding academic programme is as distressing as it is exciting for many people. Today's students are also under more pressure than ever to get a good degree to boost their prospects in a competitive STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINAL economy.For most people, these stresses and challenges of student life will not directly'cause' mental illness - but they can certainly affect emotioSTRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINAL
nal resilience and overall wellbeing in a way which leaves them more vulnerable to developing mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. SThe invisible problem?Improving students'mental healthPoppy BrownWith a Foreword by the Rt Hon. Norman Lamb MPHigher Education Policy InstituteHEPI Re STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINALto this challenge. It is crucial that we start more open conversations about mental health on campuses to break down the stigma, support students to build up their emotional resilience, and enable more people to seek support from counselling and other mental health services when things get tough.I w STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINALelcome this report and its important recommendations, which should be treated as an urgent call to action by policymakers. University counselling servSTRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINAL
ices must be properly funded and signposted, with staff trained to spot the signs of mental health problems and direct students to the most appropriatThe invisible problem?Improving students'mental healthPoppy BrownWith a Foreword by the Rt Hon. Norman Lamb MPHigher Education Policy InstituteHEPI Re STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINAL is essential that universities collect robust data and review their existing mental health policies, so that services can be improved to meet the needs of all students. We shouldn't expect anything less.4The invisible problem? Improving students'mental health STRICTLY-EMBARGOED-UNTIL-22-SEPT-Hepi-Report-88-FINALThe invisible problem?Improving students'mental healthPoppy BrownWith a Foreword by the Rt Hon. Norman Lamb MPHigher Education Policy InstituteHEPI ReGọi ngay
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