Helping Students Adapt to Graduate School: Making the Grade

ISBN-13: 9780789009609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 132 str.

Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry

Opis

Helping Students Adapt to Graduate School is the first book that focuses on the unique problems of graduate students and the best ways to counsel and support them. Graduate students juggle too many roles and are frequently under stress about classes, money, work, and their personal lives. Furthermore, the relationship of professors and graduate students is often complex and emotionally enmeshed, tinged with issues of respect, rivalry, and even romance. Not surprisingly, many graduate students find the conflicts overwhelming at times. With fascinating case studies and lucid explanations, Helping Students Adapt to Graduate School illuminates the complex interplay between the university environment and the inner psychological life of graduate students. It will help you provide supportive services to the students in your campus community.

Spis treści

Contents Introduction

• Chapter 1: Overview
• Characteristics of Graduate Students
• Characteristics of Graduate Programs
• Chapter 2: Decision to Attend Graduate School
• Chapter 3: The University's Role in Providing Support
• Overview
• The Transition into Graduate School: Welcoming the Student
• Providing Ongoing Support
• Support in the Transition from Graduate School
• Chapter 4: Developmental Issues
• Separation and Reworking of Old Family Issues
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Identity Formation
• Stabilization of Character Structure
• A Philosophy of Life
• Chapter 5: General Aspects of Graduate School Life
• Gender Issues
• Faculty-Student Relationships
• Postponement Issues
• Financial Issues
• Changing Fields
• Chapter 6: Diversity in the Graduate Student Population
• Older Students
• Married Students
• Minority Students
• International Students
• Chapter 7: Psychiatric Disorders
• Psychotic Illnesses
• Substance Abuse
• Personality Disorders
• Suicide
• Chapter 8: Provision of Treatment
• Chapter 9: Degree or not Degree
• Chapter 10: Transition from Graduate School
• Chapter 11: Summary
• Appendix: Literature Review
• References

O autorze

Earle Sibler MD