Table of Contents
Foreword
Katie Rose Guest Pryal
Preface
Teresa Heinz Housel
Acknowledgments
Teresa Heinz Housel
Part 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 Policies
Teresa Heinz Housel
Chapter Two: Anxiety in Academia: An Autoethnographic Account
Andrea L. Meluch
Chapter Three: Structuration of U.S. Communication Graduate Students’ Stress
Rahul Mitra, Nubia Brewster, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Julia Grzywinski, Elizabeth-Ann Pandzich
Chapter Four: “Burn It Down”: The Graduate Student Burnout Experience
Victoria McDermott, Nike Bahr
Part Two: Intersections of Mental Health and Marginalized Academic Populations: Cultural Representations and Institutional Climates
Chapter Five: Effects of Chronic Exposure to Invalidation on People of Color in Academia: An Exploratory Study
Juan S. Muhamad, Jessica Wendorf Muhamad, Maria Elena Villar
Chapter Six: First-Generation Graduate and Professional Students in the United States: A Critical Narrative Review
Erinn C. Cameron
Chapter Seven: Give and Take: Exploring the Role of Confidants When Friends Disclose Chronic and/or Mental Health-Related Information
Robert D. Hall
Chapter Eight: The Academic Amygdala: Tropes of PTSD in Higher Education News Coverage
Alena Amato Ruggerio, Erica Knotts
Part Three: Institutional Policies on Mental Health and Recommendations for Best Practices
Chapter Nine: Culturally Sensitive Mental Health Support for Higher Education Employees
Lukasz Swiatek. Ursula Edgington
Chapter Ten: Having Emotional Support Animals at College
Susan Hafen
Chapter Eleven: Navigating Boundaries While Creating Safe Spaces for Faculty and Students
Sandra Smeltzer, Dave M. Walton, Nicole Campbell
Chapter Twelve: The Mental Health Impacts of Making a Workers Compensation Claim for a Mental Injury
Philip Dearman, Beth Edmondson
Appendix: Mental-Health Related Resources for the Communication Classroom
Teresa Heinz Housel, Andrea L. Meluch, Vanessa R. Sperduti, Sandra Smeltzer