{"title":"Mental Health in Community Colleges: A Review.","authors":"Jordan Rasp, Meera Menon","doi":"10.1007/s11920-026-01668-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This paper examines the various perceptions of community college students on mental health challenges, access to resources, barriers to treatment, and possible interventions for care improvements. Data was gathered via literature review. RECENT FINDINGS: Resources for college students enrolled in a two-year or community college program have been limited despite similar or higher rates of mental health crises compared to their four-year student counterparts. Overall, these findings point to the necessity of advancing initiatives to close the mental health treatment gap between community colleges and four-year universities, as well as between racial and ethnic minority students within community colleges. A better understanding of how mental health affects community college students could inform more effective interventions from college staff and clinicians. More research is needed to generalize results and implement interventions to improve access to care. </p>","PeriodicalId":11057,"journal":{"name":"Current Psychiatry Reports","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5000,"publicationDate":"2026-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12924780/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Current Psychiatry Reports","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-026-01668-2","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHIATRY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This paper examines the various perceptions of community college students on mental health challenges, access to resources, barriers to treatment, and possible interventions for care improvements. Data was gathered via literature review. RECENT FINDINGS: Resources for college students enrolled in a two-year or community college program have been limited despite similar or higher rates of mental health crises compared to their four-year student counterparts. Overall, these findings point to the necessity of advancing initiatives to close the mental health treatment gap between community colleges and four-year universities, as well as between racial and ethnic minority students within community colleges. A better understanding of how mental health affects community college students could inform more effective interventions from college staff and clinicians. More research is needed to generalize results and implement interventions to improve access to care.
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This journal aims to review the most important, recently published research in psychiatry. By providing clear, insightful, balanced contributions by international experts, the journal intends to serve all those involved in the care of those affected by psychiatric disorders.
We accomplish this aim by appointing international authorities to serve as Section Editors in key subject areas, such as anxiety, medicopsychiatric disorders, and schizophrenia and other related psychotic disorders. Section Editors, in turn, select topics for which leading experts contribute comprehensive review articles that emphasize new developments and recently published papers of major importance, highlighted by annotated reference lists. An international Editorial Board reviews the annual table of contents, suggests articles of special interest to their country/region, and ensures that topics are current and include emerging research. Commentaries from well-known figures in the field are also provided.
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