BOOKS

For Students and Parents:

• 16 Young Adult Novels that Tackle Themes of Mental Illness
• 6 Great Y.A. Books that Open Up Conversations About Teen Mental Health
  • Y.A. Fiction & Mental Health Awareness
    
    • List includes 50 books, with each description’s initial sentence directly stating the mental health issue it covers
  • Mental Health Awareness - Nonfiction for Teens 
    
    • List includes 24 books, with each description’s initial sentence directly stating the mental health issue it covers
  • Santa Fe College Library’s Mental Health Resources
    
    • Perfect for college students - lists nonfiction books that cover a variety of mental health topics, as well as biographies & memoirs and self-help books

• What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan 
• Are u ok? by Kati Morton
• (Don’t) Call Me Crazy by Kelly Jensen
• Life Inside My Mind by Jessica Burkhart‍
• This is Depression: A Comprehensive Compassionate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Understand Depression by Diane McIntosh

ARTICLES

• “College students struggle with mental health as pandemic drags on” by Susan Svrluga and Nick Anderson
• “Another Surge in the Virus Has Colleges Fearing a Mental Health Crisis” by Anemona Hartocollis
• “Even before COVID-19 pandemic, youth suicide already at record high”
• “’The urgency is greater than it has every been’: Four suicides rock WPI campus as colleges grapple with student mental health concerns” by Laura Krantz
• “Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen” by Erica L. Green

Articles about Student-Athlete Mental Health:

• “Suicides in college sports put focus on mental health and those trying to make a difference” by Michelle Gardner
• College Student Athlete Health and Well-being
• Mental Health and Athletes
• Mind, Body, and Sport: The Psychiatrist Perspective
• Let’s Talk About the Quiet Crisis in College Sports: Mental Health
• NCAA faces uphill battle getting mental health care to student-athletes
• It’s okay not to be okay: athlete perspectives on mental health
• Student Athletes Confront Pandemic Mental Health Hurdles
• “Student-Athletes and the Risk of Suicide” by Jacob Lewis
• “Suicides Among Teen Athletes Raise Mental Health Concerns” by Roman Stubbs

RESEARCH STUDIES

• “I can, therefore I must”: Fragility in the upper-middle classes by Suniya S. Luthar, Samuel H. Barkin, and Elizabeth J. Crossman
• Complexities in Adjustment Patterns among the “Best and the Brightest”: Risk and Resilience in the Context of High Achieving Schools by A.Ebbert, N.Kumar, and S.Luthar
• Transition Cliffs for Young Adults with Anxiety and Depression: Is Integrated Mental Health Care a Solution? by A. Babajide, A. Ortin, C. Wei, L. Mufson, and C.S. Duarte
• Mental disorders among college students in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys by R.P. Auerbach, et al.
• Lifetime and 12-month treatment for mental disorders and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among first year college students by R. Bruffaerts, et al.
• Improving Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviors for Male Students: A Framework for Developing a Complex Intervention by I. Sagar-Ouriaghli, et al.
• The association of school climate, depression literacy, and mental health stigma among high school students by L. Townsend, et al.

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