{"product_id":"mental-health-among-higher-education-faculty-administrators-and-graduate-students-a-critical-perspective-9781793630261","title":"Mental Health among Higher Education Faculty,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMental Health among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Studentsaddresses how many academics who experience mental distress or mental illness are afraid to speak out because of cultural stigma and fears of career repercussions. Many academics’ reluctance to publicly disclose their struggles complicates attempts to understand their experiences through research or popular media, or to develop targeted mental health resources and institutional policies. This volume builds on the existing studies in this greatly under-researched area of mental health among faculty, administrators, and graduate students in higher education. The chapters’ research findings will help institutions communicate about mental health in culturally-competent and person-centered ways; create work environments conducive to mental well-being; and support their academic employees who have mental health challenges. This book argues that discussions of health and wellness, equity, workload expectations and productivity, and campus diversity must also cover chronic illness and disability, which include mental health and mental illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I highly recommend Mental Health Among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Students: A Critical Perspective as a very important source for presenting and examining the latest relevant scholarship concerning communication and mental health issues in higher education. We are living through a difficult time in modern society now, where mental health problems have challenged many people around the globe, especially those who are involved in academic life. Changes in the delivery of higher education, where new and evolving regulations related to pandemic prevention and control have dramatically altered the ways that students, faculty, and administrators are able to engage with one another have often fostered discomforting feelings of isolation, frustration, depression, and the strong need of social support. This book will help members of academic communities recognize these mental health communication needs and enable them to chart culturally competent and person-centered communication strategies for promoting wellbeing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Gary L. Kreps, George Mason University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a timely and important book, breaking new ground for future research in this area. Mental health in academia is endemic, but remains a taboo topic, and in the post-COVID era, where workload pressures and periods of isolation have been increasing, it is only set to worsen. Addressing this crisis, this volume’s chapters are impressively extensive and diverse in their focus.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Leon Salter, Massey University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Housel does it again, this time turning her critical view toward the mental health of faculty members. In this well-rounded, incisive, and research-informed collection of essays, the featured scholars call into question how mental health issues for faculty and staff are treated in the academy. Importantly, the authors offer both theoretical and pragmatic considerations related to mental health and well-being, making this an especially important read for academic administrators at all levels as well as for faculty members and graduate students who plan on entering the higher education sector. The book would also make an idea-stimulating and conversation-generating text for courses in management, higher education, psychology, communication studies, or sociology. I highly recommend this text!\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jimmie Manning, University of Nevada, Reno\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatie Rose Guest Pryal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeresa Heinz Housel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeresa Heinz Housel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One: Mental Distress and Mental Illness in Academic Culture \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: The Perfect Storm of Mental Health-Related Issues in Academia and the Need for Critical Research and Policies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeresa Heinz Housel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Anxiety in Academia: An Autoethnographic Account \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrea L. Meluch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Structuration of U.S. Communication Graduate Students’ Stress \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRahul Mitra, Nubia Brewster, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Julia Grzywinski, Elizabeth-Ann Pandzich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: “Burn It Down”: The Graduate Student Burnout Experience \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictoria McDermott, Nike Bahr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two: Intersections of Mental Health and Marginalized Academic Populations: Cultural Representations and Institutional Climates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Effects of Chronic Exposure to Invalidation on People of Color in Academia: An Exploratory Study\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuan S. Muhamad, Jessica Wendorf Muhamad, Maria Elena Villar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: First-Generation Graduate and Professional Students in the United States: A Critical Narrative Review \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErinn C. Cameron\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Give and Take: Exploring the Role of Confidants When Friends Disclose Chronic and\/or Mental Health-Related Information \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert D. Hall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: The Academic Amygdala: Tropes of PTSD in Higher Education News Coverage \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlena Amato Ruggerio, Erica Knotts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Three: Institutional Policies on Mental Health and Recommendations for Best Practices \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: Culturally Sensitive Mental Health Support for Higher Education Employees \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLukasz Swiatek. Ursula Edgington\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: Having Emotional Support Animals at College \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Hafen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: Navigating Boundaries While Creating Safe Spaces for Faculty and Students\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandra Smeltzer, Dave M. Walton, Nicole Campbell \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve: The Mental Health Impacts of Making a Workers Compensation Claim for a Mental Injury \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Dearman, Beth Edmondson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Mental-Health Related Resources for the Communication Classroom \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeresa Heinz Housel, Andrea L. Meluch, Vanessa R. Sperduti, Sandra Smeltzer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042660188503,"sku":"9781793630261","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793630261.jpg?v=1750955058","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mental-health-among-higher-education-faculty-administrators-and-graduate-students-a-critical-perspective-9781793630261","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}