College Wellness

Promoting happiness and health in the college years

Marcia Morris M.D.

Jumpstarting Social Growth While Learning to Live With COVID

If COVID has taught us anything, it has taught us the power and importance of social connection. 

Medical Mimics of Depressive Disorders in College Students

We as psychiatrists and you as parents have an important role as advocates in ensuring our college students get the medical and psychiatric care they need. 

Should My College Student Take Anxiety Medication?

The decision to start medication depends on the severity of symptoms, how functioning is impacted, and patient preference.

When It’s Not Just Homesickness

With your work, love, and encouragement, you can help your student move from crisis to recovery.

5 Things You Should Know About Antidepressants and College

You are an important advocate for your child and can provide valuable feedback regarding medication response and side effects.

Psychiatric Medication and College Students

If behavioral changes or therapy do not work for depression, anxiety, or ADHD, medication is another tool to improve functioning.  

The End of College Loneliness During COVID

Now is the time to encourage your college student to seek an array of social connections

Defeating Depression in College Students During COVID

If we or our children are struggling, there is help to bridge us to better times ahead. 

What Parents Need to Know About Trauma, College, and COVID

Approaching our own and our children’s trauma with compassion is the first step on the road to healing.

Why Marijuana Is Not the Cure for the COVID Pandemic

COVID-19 is likely to bring new twists and turns to the academic year; you can help your college student find a healthy path to resiliency.

Helping College Students Cope With COVID-19

Take this time to pause and examine how you and your college student can prioritize what really matters.

Hope: The Secret Sauce for College Success

Believing in your future while taking action to build your future is the formula for college success.

What Parents Want: To Know Their College Student Is Okay

New research on parents’ perceptions of college mental health reveals heartening and surprising findings.

Helping Your College Senior Cross the Finish Line

When your student is entering senior year, it is critical that you check in with them about their fears for the future.

Stemming the Rising Tide of College Depression

If you have gotten your child to open up to you about mental health, you have won half the battle.

Is a Gap Year Good for Your Child’s Mental Health and GPA?

The gap year may be a solution for some students to grow socially and emotionally, to gain maturity, or to get a stronger financial footing, so they can achieve success.

How to Help Your College Student Access Mental Health Care

Parents and students need to creatively and assertively search for treatment.

Three Essential College Wellness Guides for Parents

The authors of these guides speak not only as professionals but also as parents who recognize the need for creative approaches to twenty-first century parenting.

Parent Wellness Promotes College Student Wellness

With our children away at college, we have more opportunities to improve our physical, emotional, social, and financial health.

10 Mental Health Tips To Share With Your High School Senior

With mental health problems soaring on campus, the knowledge you share with your child could save a college career or even a life.

Helping Your Child After a Psychiatric Hospitalization

What should you do if your college student is in a psychiatric hospital? You can be a tremendous source of support for your child during this stressful time.

Helping Your College Student Cope with a Grandparent's Death

A grandparent’s death can pose challenges for a college student, but with your support and campus resources, your student can learn to cope.

“Dad, I Think I Have ADHD”

The accurate diagnosis and comprehensive treatment of ADHD are critical because ADHD, if left untreated, can lead to poor school performance, driving mishaps, and substance abuse.

Responding to Cultural Challenges on Campus

In the face of current cultural anxieties, we can continue to encourage safety, academic success, and social belonging.

Can We Talk About Sex on Campus?

Sex is one of the toughest topics to talk about with your college-aged children, but also one of the most important.

Five Things You Should Know About Gender Trends on Campus

College aged adults are redefining what it means to be a man or a woman.

Seasons of Change

We notice physical changes when our children come home from college, like a butterfly tattoo on their ankle, but we can be less aware of the internal transformation taking place.

The Cure for Campus Loneliness

It’s strange to think that you could feel lonely on a campus of 500 or 5,000 students, but it happens all the time.

Helping Your College Student Cope With Psychosis

Resilience. Hope. Recovery. Remember these words if your child has an episode of psychosis.

Help Your College Student Combat a Major Danger: Depression

With the right treatment plan, your child can develop the tools to fight her way out of the darkness of depression and into the light of recovery.

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