References on Graduate Student Mental Health Issues

General References

• Graduate Student Mental Health and Well-Being: A Two Year Research Study, sponsored by the Council of Graduate Schools
• Why we Need to Talk More about Mental Health in Graduate School, by Kathryn R. Wedemeyer-Strombel, from the Chronicle of Higher Education
• A Toxic Culture of Overwork’: Inside the Graduate Student Mental Health Crisis, an indepth study published in the Stanford University Stanford Daily
•  For Graduate Students and Postdocs, Mental Health Begins with Faculty, by Jen Heemstra, published in American Chemical Society Chemical and Engineering News
• Examining Graduate Student Mental Health by Abby Olena, from The Scientist
• A Very Mixed Record on Grad Student Mental Health, from InsideHigherEd
• Graduate School Can Have Terrible Effects on People’s Mental Health, by Alia Wong, including an extensive array of reader feedback published in The Atlantic
•  A Better Future for Graduate-Student Mental Health:  A consortium of US universities aims to examine how best to help a vulnerable population that is affected by anxiety and depression (2018, August), a major study published in the journal Nature
• Mental Health in Grad School: Recognizing, Understanding & Overcoming Mental Health Issues in Grad School from the GoGrad guide to online graduate studies programs
• How to Make Graduate School More Humane for People with Disabilities, from Pacific Standard

Academic Literature

• {NEW} Barely Holding On: Being a Graduate Student in the Pandemic Times of COVID-19 (2022), by Samuel Shelton, published in Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor
• {NEW} Mental Health and Psychological Wellbeing in the Early Stages of Doctoral Study: A Systematic Review (2022), by Patricia C. Jackman, et. al, published in the European Journal of Higher Education
• {NEW} Promoting Graduate Student Mental Health During COVID-19: Acceptability, Feasability, and Perceived Utility of an Online Single-Session Intervention (2022), by Akash R. Wasil, et. al, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology
• {NEW} Promoting Graduate Student Mental Health during COVID-19: Acceptability, Feasibility, and Perceived Utility of an Online Single-Session Intervention (2021), by Akash R. Wasil, et. al, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology
• {NEW} The Mental Health and Well-Being of Master’s and Doctoral Psychology Students at an Urban Canadian University (2021), by Katey E. Park, Annabel Sibalis, and Brittany Jamieson, published in the International Journal of Doctoral Studies
• {NEW} Discrimination, Competitiveness, and Support in U.S. Graduate Student Mental Health (2021), by Julie Posselt, published in the journal Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
• {NEW} An Exploration of Graduate Student Peer Mentorship, Social Connectedness, and Well-being Across Four Disciplines of Study (2021), by Elzabeth Oddone Paolucci, et. al, published in the journal Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
• {NEW} Student, Academic and Professional Services Staff Perspectives of Postgraduate Researcher Well-being and Help-seeking: A Mixed-Methods Co-designed Investigation (2021), published in the journal Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
• {NEW}Enhancing Postgraduate Researcher Wellbeing through Support Groups (2021), by Fryni Panayidou and Benjamin Priest, published in the journal Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
• {NEW} “Peering Through the Window Looking In”: Postgraduate Experiences of Non-belonging and Belonging in Relation to Mental Health and Wellbeing (2021), by Charlotte Morris, published in the journal Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
• {NEW} Mental Health and Psychological Wellbeing in the Early Stages of Doctoral Study: A Systematic Review (2021), by Patricia C. Jackman, et. al, published in the European Journal of Higher Education
• {NEW} Mental Health and Coping Strategies in Undergraduate and Graduate Students During COVID-19 Pandemic (2021), by Naiana Daprieve Patias, et. al, published in the journal Trends in Psychology
• {NEW} Transition Points: Well-being and Disciplinary Identity in the First Years of Doctoral Studies (2021), by John A. Gonzalez, Heeyun Kim, & Allyson Flaster, published in the journal Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
• {NEW} Enhancing Postgraduate Researcher Wellbeing through Support Groups (2021), published in the journal Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
• {NEW} Undergraduate and Graduate Students’ Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020), by Igor Chirikov, et. al, published in SERU Consortium Reports from the UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education
• Evaluation and Durability of a Curriculum-Based Intervention for Promoting Mental Health among Graduate Students (2020), by Chelsea Brett, et. al, published in the American Journal of Health Education
  
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