Ethical dilemmas in mental health resources for college students: A reflective case study

Abstract

Poised to have the highest number of young people in the world, India will have the onus of providing adequate mental health resources to a demographic considered among the most vulnerable with regard to mental well-being. While the Mental Healthcare Act 2017 pushed for greater accountability and care in supporting individuals with mental illness, these directions were specific to services provided by the state and did not address the care required in non-hospital settings. Since many manifestations and repercussions of mental health issues in young people occur in educational institutions, it becomes vital to address ways in which we can formulate ethical mental health services at those sites. This article is a reflective case study of the ethical dilemmas and challenges around issues of confidentiality and quality of care in relation to demand, contributing to a larger mental health ecology involved in providing mental health resources at the Student Support Centre, Manipal, that caters exclusively to students in an Indian campus town.

Design and Optimization of Psychological Emergency Response System for College Students Based on IoT and Computational Intelligence

“…e psychological crisis of college students and the resulting suicide phenomenon and traumatic events have attracted the attention of many scholars [18]. Early warning is an important link in the prevention and intervention of psychological crisis among college students, especially with the change of crisis intervention work to active and preventive systematic crisis intervention mode, the role of psychological crisis early warning is becoming more and more prominent [19,20]. Early warning of psychological crisis among college students is to assess the relevant information of the early warning object by examining a series of psychological indicators, using scientific quantitative methods and timely discovering and identifying potential or real crisis factors, predicting the severity of psychological crisis, issuing crisis alerts and taking targeted preventive measures to limit or even eliminate the occurrence of psychological crisis and minimize the harm caused by psychological crisis [21,22].…”