Review of Teresa Heinz Housel’s Mental Health among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Students: A Critical Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)


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  • Michelle Walter Centre for the Study of Higher Education, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

What does it mean to be mentally ill in academia? This is the central question of Teresa Heinz Housel’s edited book which focuses on the experiences of academic staff, university administrators, and graduate students experiencing mental illness and mental health distress. Divided into three sections of four chapters each, including “Mental Health Distress and Mental Illness in Academic Culture,” “Intersections of Mental Health and Marginalised Academic Populations” and “Institutional Policies on Mental Health and Recommendations for Best Practice,” the book covers a variety of perspectives and experiences and draws on both qualitative and quantitative research methods. [...]


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Walter, Michelle. 2023. “Review of Teresa Heinz Housel’s <i>Mental Health Among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Students: A Critical Perspective</I> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)”. Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare 7 (3). https://doi.org/10.4081/qrmh.2023.12127.

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