College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About It

College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About It Richard Kadison and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004, 296 pages, $24.95 (hardcover)

Many students come to the nation's colleges and universities with a wide variety of mental health problems. Today's students face mental health disorders ranging from major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder to eating disorders and even personality disorders. Kadison and DiGeronimo's book, College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About It, explores the increasing stressors that college students face today and how they can manifest themselves into debilitating mental health disorders, which will ultimately disrupt a student's success in college.

The book is divided into two distinct sections concentrating on the problems and, in response, the solutions to the campus mental health crisis. Part 1 of the book, "The Problems: Why Are Some Kids So Unhappy at...