Mental health in universities calls for special precautions

The mental health of college students is in crisis. Over the past few decades, college campuses around the United States have witnessed a dramatic rise in depression, suicides and even sociopathic behavior heretofore unseen. Social theorists have pointed to various causative factors in the general population: increasing isolation of individuals from family and community ties, a culture of expertise that has expanded the definition of deviance and an identity confusion related to a popular culture that no longer ascribes to a monolithic worldview.