NEWS
1/21/10 6:00pm
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.