Running Head: COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH PAPER                    1
COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH PAPER                             20
ASSIGNMENT NAME: COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH PAPER
COURSE: FSW 5011
PROFESSOR: MARION WATT
TOPIC: MENTAL HEALTH
Abstract
For a variety of reasons, including acts of violence on college campuses, student depression and the significant growth in mental-health occurrences among college students, mental health is a major concern in higher education today. However, the un-favourable stigma associated with mental health concerns has an influence on college students and their decisions about whether or not to seek treatment. Specifically, the goal of this research was to investigate the lived experiences of stigma among college students, who have self-identified as having a mental health condition and who were engaged at an intermediate public community college.
The findings of three interviews with and responses to online prompts from six students revealed that they reported experiencing social distance as an outcome of being perceived as being out of the cultural convention, going to hear negative talk concerning mental health, becoming allowed to treat as vulnerable and experiencing prevalent abusive behaviour during their high school years, respectively. Taking the decision to seek treatment for these students involved negotiating both public force and personal reluctance at the same time. Students asked assistance through forming relationships with individuals who were dealing with mental health issues.
Acknowledgement
As I closely the completion of my research dissertation, which is titled "An Analysis of the Impact of give a more in-depth knowledge of the phenomena of mental health among community-college students, the present research aims to provide the groundwork for future research." I am filled with a great sense of accomplishment. This subject has provided me with a wealth of information about the fundamentals and significance of issues of mental health, as well as student mental health.
I also want to express my gratitude to all of them, who has contributed to the successful completion of this study project by acknowledging their support. I would want to express my thanks to my supervisor, who has been really helpful to me during this research but, without which assistance, I would not even be able to complete this study.
I also want to express my gratitude to all of the survey participants as well as the managers of the firm who took part in the interview from mental health professionals and collaborated with me during my research. This research would not have been feasible had it not been for their assistance and responsiveness. Finally, I would want to convey my gratitude to my friends and family, whose support and encouragement have been invaluable to me during my studies.
Thanking you all,
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Table of Contents
Abstract    2
Acknowledgement    3
Chapter 1: Introduction    8
1.1 Introduction    8
1.2 Background of the Study    8
1.3 Rationale of the Research    9
1.4 Research Aim    10
1.5 Research Objectives    11
1.6 Research Questions    11
1.7 Significance of the Research    11
1.8 Structure of the Dissertation    12
1.9 Summary    12
Chapter 2: Literature Review    13
2.1 Overview    13
2.2 Overview of Mental Health    13
2.3 Prevalence of Mental Health Issues    14
2.4 Causes and Symptoms of Mental Health Issues    15
2.5 Types of Mental Health Issues    15
2.6 Theories and Models on Mental Health as well as Well-Being    16
2.6.1 Motivational Self-Determination Theory (SDT)    16
2.6.2 PERMA Theory of Happiness    17
2.6.3 Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT)    18
2.7 Impact of Mental Health Issues on University Students    19
2.8 Significance of Mental Health and Wellbeing for University Students    20
2.9 Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Health Issue    20
2.10 Prevention of Mental Health Issue    21
2.11 Support Available for Mental Health among University Students    22
2.12 Summary    22
Chapter 3: Research Methodology    23
3.1 Overview    23
3.2 Research Outline    23
3.3 Research Onion    23
3.4 Research Paradigm    24
3.5 Research Approach    25
3.6 Research Design    25
3.7 Research Strategy    26
3.8 Data Collection Method    26
3.9 Sampling Method    27
3.10 Accessibility Issue    27
3.11 Ethical Considerations    28
3.12 Time Table    28
3.13 Summary    28
Chapter 4: Data Analysis and Interpretations    29
4.1 Overview    29
4.2 Qualitative Data Interpretations    29
4.3 Summary    34
Chapter 5: Conclusion and Recommendations    35
5.1 Conclusions    35
5.2 Linking Objectives with the Research    36
5.3 Recommendations    37
5.4 Limitations of the Research    37
5.5 Future Scope of Research    38
References    39
Appendices    43
Appendix 1: Time Table    43
Appendix 2: Interview Questionnaire    44
Appendix 3: Interview Questions with Transcripts    45
List of Figures and Table
Figure 1.1: Structure of the Dissertation    12
Figure 2.1: Conceptual Framework    13
Figure 2.2: Concept of Mental Health    14
Figure 2.3: Types of Mental Health Issues    16
Figure 2.4: Motivational Self-Determination Theory (SDT)    17
Figure 2.5: PERMA Theory of Happiness    18
Figure 2.6: Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT)    19
Figure 3.1: Research Onion    24
Table 3.1: Gantt chart    43
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Introduction
Emotional, psychological and social well-beings are all components of mental health. It has an impact on person’s ability to understand, to experience and to act. It also assists the person in determining how else to deal with challenges, communicate with humans and make decisions. Mental health is essential at all phases of life, from infancy and adolescence through maturity (Kumar & Nayar, 2021). Having mental health difficulties, at any point in the person’s life, may have a negative impact on overall cognition, attitude and behaviour. There are several elements, which lead to mental health issues.
Psychiatric health, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), is a condition of well-being that enables individuals to be aware of unique talents, manage the demands of everyday life, work efficiently and make a positive contribution to their society. Perceived well-being, considered identity, independence, abilities, multigenerational reliance and self-realization of intellectual as well as emotional potentials are all aspects of mental health (Newman, Roche & Elliott, 2021).
These include, but are not limited to, the following: from a psychological science or comprehensive viewpoint, mental health may include the right to appreciate one's life and strike a balance between one's daily activities and one's attempts to gain emotional fortitude. The notion of mental health is influenced by a variety of factors, including cultural variations, judgements and conflicting medical views (Liu, Bao, Huang, Shi & Lu, 2020). The following are some early symptoms of health problems: discomfort throughout sleep, loss of energy and thoughts of killing oneself or someone else.
1.2 Background of the Study
College students' mental health is becoming an especially urgent issue in the context, as they encounter more severe issues while on campus and need more supportive services. Furthermore, incidents on college campuses, such as the University with Tragedy and Television Investigation, raise valid concerns about how individuals' emotional needs are handled, as well as the devastating effects that requirements may have on academic groups (Oates, Topping, Ezhova, Wadey & Marie Rafferty, 2020). Many college campuses have placed an emphasis on mental health during the last five to ten years, allowing them to appreciate the expanding requirements of students fully.
Higher education institutions have been attempting to incorporate this emerging field of college mental health into their existing systems and school culture, frequently while coping with budget constraints and ambiguous criteria for responsibility and accountability for student safety, among other difficulties (Wu et al., 2017). Campus mental health improvements are addressed in more detail in Advice for Managers today. These include peer educational programmes, focused psychologist proportions, vulnerability assessment and the establishment of cognitive behavioural teams, among other things.
1.3 Rationale of the Research
With the increasing prevalence of mental illness among college students, it is critical that academic institutions facilitate access to and collaboration with, appropriate mental health specialists for support and treatment. It is also crucial to seek assistance from college students since this might be a life-threatening situation (Maunder & White, 2019). Eighty percent of the student suicides that took place on different university campuses were committed by students who had never gone to a counselling facility on their respective university.
Despite the obvious need for assistance, college students suffering from mental health disorders, including those who are at risk of suicide, often do not have accessibility to psychological resources on campus. Some research has concentrated on determining the reasons why individuals do not seek expert assistance (Oates et al., 2020). Despite the fact that many students are dubious of therapy, do not want to consider treatment and want to address the issue themselves, even if they are at danger or have suicidal thoughts, the findings are often cited by them. It implies that it is one of the explanations, at the very least.
Two qualitative researches looked at how students with mental illnesses experience and think about stigma in relation to their disease (Bharadwaj, Pai & Suziedelyte, 2017). According to the findings of this research, students want to be treated as individuals rather than as people with disabilities because they fear that others would have an unfavourable opinion of them if they were aware of their mental health difficulties. It is very aware that studies made a public remark. Uncertainty persists, despite recent substantial findings, about the link between prejudice and individuals seeking assistance in association with the situation of a specific student.
A psychiatric viewpoint has historically been used to investigate mental health and well-being in this area, with the goal of understanding how neuronal malfunction leads to mental conditions and developing pharmaceutical interventions to address brain dysfunction. Because of this, psychiatrists traditionally regarded psychological state as an illness of the brain (for example, distress and devastation), comparable to any other medical disorder that is caused by genetic, biochemical, or neurologic causes (Ogunwale, Majekodunmi, Ajayi & Abdulmalik, 2020).
1.4 Research Aim
In order to give a more in-depth knowledge of the phenomena of stigma among community-college students, the present research aims to provide the groundwork for future research. A major goal of the research has been to give vivid explanations and an in-depth examination of issues using forensics, as it has been observed by community-college students who are dealing with mental-health concerns in their lives.
1.5 Research Objectives
The objective of the research is to map out the literature on mental health on the community of College students in terms of productivity, growth and education research.
· To understand the concept of mental health and mental health issues
· To focus on specifically on mental health condition of University students
· To analyse critically the impact of mental health issues on study and life of University students
· To suggest suitable recommendations to combat the issue
1.6 Research Questions
· What are mental health and mental health issues?
· What mental health issues can be noticed in case of University students and why?
· How do mental health issues affect the life of studies of University students?
· How problems can be solved?
1.7 Significance of the Research
A significant problem in higher education, the mental health of students has been regarded as an epidemic and it is becoming more prevalent. Almost a third of students reported feeling sad enough to be unable to function at some time in the previous year. Furthermore, 80 percent of students who committed suicide at different sites were not current or previous customers of the university counselling service (Marshall & Adams, 2018).
Nevertheless, many students who were in desperate need of professional assistance did not seek it out. Furthermore, reputation is often noted as a factor in students' lack of enthusiasm to seek professional assistance. The purpose of this research is to give high school students with a foundation for gaining a more in-depth knowledge of social stigma.
Providing a clear description and in-depth examination of forensics for diagnosing community college individuals with psychological disorders was the goal of this research. Furthermore, this research tried to give a model for analysing the unique ways, in which stigma affects these particular kids.
Another purpose of this research is to offer practitioners with a better knowledge of stigmatisation and related problems. Professionals in higher education will find this study to be beneficial in their attempts to make better-informed choices on projects and strategies that motivate students to pursue mental health counselling and other forms of assistance.
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Chapter 1: Introduction, rationale, aim, objectives and questions of topic
Chapter 2: Literature review
Chapter 3: Development of research methodology
Chapter 4: Data findings and interpretations
Chapter 5: Conclusion and recommendat
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)1.8 Structure of the Dissertation
Figure 1.1: Structure of the Dissertation
(Source: Researcher)
1.9 Summary
The present chapter has to do with the overall framework of the research dissertations as a whole. Introduction is the section, which presents the study issue, offers a justification and importance for the research and identifies specific research questions that the investigator should focus on when carrying out the research.
Chapter 2: Literature Review
2.1 Overview
In this section, the investigator will go through and critically evaluate the following points, which are very important to the present successful team. Following the topic of the current study, it is necessary to grasp the mental health in order to comprehend the ideas and conceptual framework discussed below.
Figure 2.1: Conceptual Framework
(Source: Researcher)
2.2 Overview of Mental Health
The emotional, intellectual and economic well-being all contribute to overall mental health. It has an impact on how they perceive, what they experience and how they behave as people deal with difficult situations. It also influences how people deal with stress, how they interact to people and how we make a decision. It is crucial to maintain good mental health throughout every stage of life, from early life through maturity and the golden years.
Mental diseases are significant problems that may have a negative impact on the thoughts, emotions and behaviour. They might be short-term or long-term in nature (Sandhu, Arora, Brasch & Streiner, 2019). They may have an impact on the capacity to interact with people and operate on a daily basis.
A frequent occurrence is mental illness. More than half of all Individuals will be diagnosed with a mental illness at some point in their lives. However, there are therapies available. People who suffer from mental illnesses may improve and so many of them will recover entirely.
2.3 Prevalence of Mental Health Issues
Mental health diseases continue to be underreported, posing significant issues in interacting only with data. There are differences across nations, but they are more noticeable in relatively low countries whose economies is extremely scarce and mental health illnesses get less immediate medical attention than in higher-income ones (Reddy, 2019).
The prevalence official numbers in this entrant should be regarded as estimates of mental illnesses prevalence instead of exact prevalence distinctions. They do not reflect specific diagnostic data. In fact, it would provide a broad outlook on diagnosis, but rather these are imputed from a combined effect of medical, infectious disease data, assessments and conceptual forecasting in cases where original data is unreachable.
Figure 2.2: Concept of Mental Health
(Source: Reddy, 2019)
2.4 Causes and Symptoms of Mental Health Issues
When continuous indications and symptoms create frequent stress and impair a person's capacity to operate correctly, mental health issues may progress to mental illness and become life threatening. Based on the area, the circumstances and other variables, the signs and symptoms of mental illness could differ from one person to the next (Serafini et al., 2020). Emotions, beliefs and actions may all be affected by the emotional and behavioural problems. In certain cases, symptoms of mental illness express themselves as physical ailments such as stomach pain, muscle aches, insomnia and other inexplicable discomfort.
Generally speaking, mental disease is thought to be due by a combination of hereditary and environmental causes. It is a natural characteristic. Mental disease is frequent among relatives, as well as among people who are afflicted by it. Several traits may raise the likelihood of developing mental disorder and the environment can even contribute to it (Bruffaerts et al., 2018). Changes in the environment, immune disorders, poisons, alcohol and narcotics may cause mental disorder in infancy.
2.5 Types of Mental Health Issues
Panic disorder, panic disorder, compulsively condition, anxiety and emotional problems such as post-traumatic depressive illness are some of the common mental health conditions mentioned in this official document. It is going to happen. The most prominent symptom is a sense of being down and losing enjoyment in activities that were formerly enjoyable.
These symptoms might be paired with additional symptoms, such as tears irritation and fatigue, are the most common ones (Tillmann, Tobin, Avison & Gilliland, 2018). Anxiety is characterised by many anxieties that are excessive and disproportionate to the current circumstances and these problems are challenging to handle once they have begun. A recurring panic attack has been the primary symptom and people are even concerned about having additional panic attack in the near future.
Figure 2.3: Types of Mental Health Issues
(Source: Tillmann et al., 2018)
2.6 Theories and Models on Mental Health as well as Well-Being
2.6.1 Motivational Self-Determination Theory (SDT)
Motivational Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and in particular fundamental psychological need theory (BPNT), holds that independence, competence and connectedness have been the most critical foundations for well-being and optimum performance and that they are interconnected. A deficiency in such will have a negative impact on a people's well-being (Bennett & Hanna, 2021). Fulfilling these requirements helps to build necessary commitment. The development and extension of the idea of positive emotions altered the way, in which thoughts were discussed.
Figure 2.4: Motivational Self-Determination Theory (SDT)
(Source: Marshall & Adams, 2018)
2.6.2 PERMA Theory of Happiness
Positive emotions were the subject of several psychological theories and investigations conducted in the past. Aggression, anxiety, sorrow, shame and humiliation are examples of these types of emotions (Stephan, 2018). When they are experiencing negative emotions, a person may have tunnel vision. The perspectives are widened when they have a positive influence. In the presence of positive emotions such as amazement, pleasure and thankfulness, one's experience in the surroundings is enhanced.
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