Mental Health among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Students

Dr. Teresa Heinz Housel is senior tutor in the School of Journalism, Communication, and Marketing at Massey University of New Zealand.

• Table of ContentsForeword Katie Rose Guest PryalPreface Teresa Heinz HouselAcknowledgments Teresa Heinz HouselPart One: Mental Distress and Mental Illness in Academic Culture Chapter One: The Perfect Storm of Mental Health-Related Issues in Academia and the Need for Critical Research and PoliciesTeresa Heinz HouselChapter Two: Anxiety in Academia: An Autoethnographic Account Andrea L. MeluchChapter Three: Structuration of U.S. Communication Graduate Students’ Stress Rahul Mitra, Nubia Brewster, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Julia Grzywinski, Elizabeth-Ann PandzichChapter Four: “Burn It Down”: The Graduate Student Burnout Experience Victoria McDermott, Nike BahrPart Two: Intersections of Mental Health and Marginalized Academic Populations: Cultural Representations and Institutional ClimatesChapter Five: Effects of Chronic Exposure to Invalidation on People of Color in Academia: An Exploratory StudyJuan S. Muhamad, Jessica Wendorf Muhamad, Maria Elena VillarChapter Six: First-Gener

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.