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Asian American, Pacific Islander and multiracial college students are more likely than white students to have considered or attempted suicide despite reporting lower rates of psychiatric diagnosis, a new analysis has found. The research, published last month in the journal Psychiatric Services , analyzed survey responses from more than 60,000 college students at 108 schools. It found that while minority students generally reported lower rates of psychiatric diagnoses and symptoms of mental...

According to several recent surveys, around one in five — or about 400,000 — California community college students has experienced homelessness in the last year. Thousands more are at risk of becoming homeless. Calling that number “shocking, alarming and tragic,” Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Palo Alto, on Tuesday outlined a new bill — AB 302 — that would force community colleges to allow homeless students to sleep inside their vehicles in campus parking lots overnight. “Shame on us if we turn...

Young adulthood is a time of growth, learning, and exploration—a time to start building a life of your own and get excited about the future. Yet for some of our nation’s 21 million college students, the transition into adulthood is a time of significant change and intense challenge to their emotional health and well-being. Recent survey data indicate that in the past year, three out of five students experienced overwhelming anxiety, and two out of five students were too depressed to...

Two decades have passed since Felitti et al.’s (1998) foundational study on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) clearly demonstrated a link between childhood trauma and early death. Since that time, there has been much neurobiological, psychological and community-based research related to ACEs (e.g., Anda et al., 2006; Hargreaves, et al., 2016; Teicher & Sampson, 2016). The strong interest in ACEs research and practice is exemplified by the thriving national social network, ACEs...

Perhaps the most colorful mix of students in the world attends California’s public colleges and universities, yet most of the people appointed to run those schools, it turns out, are white. A new study points out the disparity — and the opportunity — as California’s next governor will be able to fill 38 openings over the next four years on the governing boards of the University of California, California State University, California Community Colleges and the state’s Student Aid Commission.

Now that fall is well and truly here, the novelty of college has probably worn off a little. If you’ve suddenly found yourself face-to-face with reality, completely exhausted and having lost every single piece of stationery that you started with, you’re not alone. Time management is a big concern for most college students. The flexibility of independence can also make it difficult to prioritize college work, social events, basic hygiene tasks and the hundreds of voicemails that your parents...

The intersection of psychology and criminal justice is synergistic for our understanding of behavior. A topic drawing more attention is the behavior of the alleged victims of inappropriate conduct. The behavior of the survivors sometimes baffles those attempting to understand what has occurred. The expectations that law enforcement or counselors may have that abuse victims will appear emotional if they have been traumatized and wanting a perpetrator pursued is not always the case. The...

Recently the issue of bullying in the professional environment has become more open as many individuals and organizations have been affected by this experience. As a result, by bringing this issue ‘out to the open’ we hope to decrease acts of bullying in the college environment. Why Anti-Bullying Policies are Important for College Campuses When a college develops an anti-bullying policy, the existence of this policy will ensure that the college will continue to maintain an environment of...

Why Multicultural Counseling is Essential to the Success of Today’s Therapist If you aspire to become a successful, well-rounded counselor in today’s increasingly diverse world, it’s necessary that you become familiar with the concept of multiculturalism in counseling. Your counseling career may lead you to foreign countries or you may work with diverse populations within your own communities. Either way, our increasingly globalized societies necessitate mental health professionals who are...

As the federal government increases immigrant detention and attempts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, many California colleges are finding new ways to help undocumented students succeed and get assistance to their families as well. The latest effort is the California Campus Catalyst Fund , established by a group of educators, funders and advocates, and administered by the nonprofit organization Immigrants Rising, which announced last week that it has awarded...

To the Editor: The Orwellian implications of this move by the Trump administration cannot be overemphasized. It not only denies the existence and humanity of part of the population, but also ignores basic science. External genitalia are but one of many characteristics combining to comprise a person’s sex, and up to 1.7 percent of people are intersex in some way rather than unambiguously male or female. Gender identity is also complex; for millions of people, it does not match their sex...

I have been clinically diagnosed with unipolar depression since I was 22, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at me, and, honestly, most of the time, you wouldn’t know it by having a conversation with me either—but it’s there, all day, every day, waiting for its moment to seize my psyche and render me an automaton husk in the shape of my physical self. The thing is, depression is an invisible illness. It cannot be seen like the flu, a rash, or a broken arm. Saying this is nothing new, yet...