Historicising the "Crisis" in Undergraduate Mental Health: British Universities and Student Mental Illness, 1944–1968
Historicising the "Crisis" in Undergraduate Mental Health: British Universities and Student Mental Illness, 1944–1968
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本科生心理健康“危机”的历史化：英国大学和学生心理疾病，1944-1968
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2020
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Sarah Crook
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作者：
Sarah Crook
本文探讨了1944年至1968年间，学生心理健康如何以及为什么成为英国大学关注的一个问题。它认为，在这一时期，有两个因素引起了医学专业人员对学生心理健康的关注：首先，它认为，战后对精神疾病的兴趣引起了对学生的关注，学生被视为未来的杰出人物，他们的健康具有特殊的社会重要性。其次，它认为，大学健康服务的发展使学生越来越引人注目，支持了高等教育对年轻人构成独特但共同的心理挑战的观点。这篇文章描绘了服务的扩展，描绘了战后英国大学学生心理困扰的可见性的影响。这表明，英国高等教育目前正处于一场前所未有的心理健康“危机”之中的说法，应该在更广泛的历史背景下看待，因为尽管围绕学生心理健康的辩论的轮廓已经发生了实质性的变化，但战后几年里围绕学生心理健康存在焦虑的证据，削弱了对当代学生构成独特的“雪花一代”的指责。
abstract:This article explores how and why student mental health became an issue of concern in British universities between 1944 and 1968. It argues that two factors drew student mental health to the attention of medical professionals across this period: first, it argues that the post-war interest in mental illness drew attention to students, who were seen to be the luminaries of the future, investing their wellbeing with particular social importance. Second, it argues that the development of university health services made students increasingly visible, endorsing the view that higher education posed distinctive yet shared mental challenges to young people. The article charts the expansion of services and maps the implications of the visibility of student mental distress for post-war British universities. It suggests that claims that British higher education is currently in the midst of an unprecedented mental health "crisis" should be seen within this broader historical context, for while the contours of the debates around student mental health have shifted substantially, evidence that there was anxiety around student mental wellbeing in the immediate post-war years undermines accusations that contemporary students constitute a unique "snowflake generation."