Students' Experiences of Psychosocial Problems in Higher Education: Battling and Belonging

Around the world, students in higher education suffer from and deal with  psychosocial problems. This phenomenon is universal and seems to be  increasing. A vast number of students enter higher education with  problems like stress, anxiety or depression, or develop them during  their student lives, due to, for example, loneliness, family crisis,  mental health or study environment issues.

Battling, belonging  and recognition are the focal points of this book’s analyses, showing  how students faced with psychosocial problems experience high degrees of  stigma and exclusion in the academic communities and society as such.  The book is based on research situated in a welfare society, Denmark,  where students have relatively easy access to higher education and to  public support for education as well as special support for students  with psychosocial problems. Taking a student perspective, the book  provides in-depth, qualitative analyses of what characterizes student  life, which specific psychosocial and other problems students  experience, how problems are constructed, represented and become  significant in relation to studying, and, not least, how students deal  with them.

It will be of great interest to researchers, academics  and postgraduate students in the fields of educational psychology,  sociology of education and higher education. It will also be of interest  to supervisors and administrators in higher education.