The Jed Foundation has announced their partnership with the Steve Fund to provide colleges and universities with recommended practices for improving support for the mental health and emotional well-being of America’s college students of color. In addition, new data demonstrating the urgency of improving mental health support for students has been released.
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Vickie Mays (department of Psychology, Fielding School of Public Health), Gilbert Gee (Fielding School of Public Health) and Susan Cochran (Fielding School of Public Health) provide research that shows people who become targets of discrimination can suffer effects ranging from low self-esteem to a higher risk for developing stress-related disorders such as anxiety and depression.
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Dr. Peter Whybrow, best-selling author and director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, believes that a stressful mismatch between the brain’s evolved biology and today’s demanding culture has helped shape behavior and habits that can prove trying. Dr. Whybrow notes the correlation between a more stressful and competitive society and more anxiety and depression, especially for students on campus.
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Q&A session with Vice Chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and Dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine, Dr. John Mazziotta that includes causes of depression.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education features Jonathan Flint who was just recruited UCLA from Oxford to lead the components of the Depression Grand Challenge.
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