Students Mental Health Issue: Asking For Help Rising, Counseling Services Not Enough

The head of counseling at Brunel University revealed there are a lot of students asking for help to address mental health issues. Ruth Caleb, the lead counselor, said the numbers of pupils seeking for psychological assistance are getting bigger and bigger that they can't even handle.

Some Universities Fail To Help

According to The Guardian, Imperial College London and University of York have been addressing the increasing volume of students seeking for advice and guidance. Unfortunately, some of the universities fail to give their support and don't even have counseling services.

In fact, there's an instance when a student is requesting for a counseling appointment but, she was not accommodated. There was no counselor available in their school for a whole semester. Hence, no one was available to help her.

This just makes the students feel more miserable for having nobody to help them. Counseling services in some schools are now hard to obtain because of the increasing numbers of students who need help while the facility stays to be low funded.

Urging Reform

There are some counselors and therapists around but, they are not enough to face every student that has mental health issues. The Courier reported Northern Iowa student body, President Katie Evans, is trying to do her best to address the mental health issues in their university.

Along with her other student leaders have their way in the Capitol to ask for help and additional funding for counseling services. Aside from that, they are also asking for educational support and needs to give proper awareness about mental health issues.

"Students at the college level are facing a lot of new challenges and new people and new housing, etc.," Evans said. Katie also added that she believes that students who have mental health issues are having a hard time to ask for help and counseling in time when they needed it the most.