Helping Students Adapt to Graduate School

Making the Grade

Buch | Softcover

132 Seiten

2000
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-0978-4 (ISBN)

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Help graduate students cope with the pressures of school, finances, family, and professors!

In order to succeed in school:

The college undergraduate just has to be able to find and operate an elevator in the campus high-rise
The master's degree student has to climb the side of the building
The PhD student doing research with a professor has to jump over the building in a single bound, carrying the professor

That bit of grim humor contains a bitter kernel of truth. Helping Students Adapt to Graduate School is the first book that focuses on the unique problems of graduate students and the best ways to counsel and support them.

Graduate and professional schools are draining - emotionally, financially, and physically. In addition to coping with the pressures of classes and high performance expectations, many graduate students juggle multiple lives, trying to please their professors, maintain their status as adults, pay for books and classes and rent and food, keep up a place to live, preserve their marriages, raise their children, and deal with their parents, all while they work as teaching assistants, resident advisors, or research assistants. When adults return to school, they may find themselves forced into a childlike status, causing considerable resentment or regression and sometimes reawakening old conflicts. Furthermore, the relationship of professors and graduate students is often complex and emotionally enmeshed, tinged with issues of respect, rivalry, and even romance. Not surprisingly, many graduate students find the conflicts overwhelming at times.

With fascinating case studies and lucid explanations, Helping Students Adapt to Graduate School offers a clear look at the special difficulties of graduate students and practical ways the university can help, including:

fostering a sense of belonging
providing year-round mental health services
helping students handle financial pressures and career decisions
supporting the unique needs of minority, international, married, and older students
understanding the hidden subtext of faculty-student relationships
encouraging a balance of family and school

Helping Students Adapt to Graduate School is an essential resource for deans, administrators, professors, and counselors working with graduate students. By illuminating the complex interplay between the university environment and the inner psychological life of graduate students, it will help you provide supportive services to the students in your campus community.

Earle Sibler MD

Contents Introduction

Chapter 1: Overview
Characteristics of Graduate Students
Characteristics of Graduate Programs
Chapter 2: Decision to Attend Graduate School
Chapter 3: The University's Role in Providing Support
Overview
The Transition into Graduate School: Welcoming the Student
Providing Ongoing Support
Support in the Transition from Graduate School
Chapter 4: Developmental Issues
Separation and Reworking of Old Family Issues
Interpersonal Relationships
Identity Formation
Stabilization of Character Structure
A Philosophy of Life
Chapter 5: General Aspects of Graduate School Life
Gender Issues
Faculty-Student Relationships
Postponement Issues
Financial Issues
Changing Fields
Chapter 6: Diversity in the Graduate Student Population
Older Students
Married Students
Minority Students
International Students
Chapter 7: Psychiatric Disorders
Psychotic Illnesses
Substance Abuse
Personality Disorders
Suicide
Chapter 8: Provision of Treatment
Chapter 9: Degree or not Degree
Chapter 10: Transition from Graduate School
Chapter 11: Summary
Appendix: Literature Review
References

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.2.2000
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	204 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	0-7890-0978-1 / 0789009781
ISBN-13	978-0-7890-0978-4 / 9780789009784
Zustand	Neuware