Pressure points
Oliver Duff consults the stressbusters for advice on how to deal with the season of looming exams and dissertation deadlines.
A tasty filler
Jamie Douglass offers a few tips on how to add a little "ooh, ah" to your pasta
Ready, willing and disabled
Daniel Strother, who broke his back climbing Ben Nevis, hopes to make medical history by qualifying as a doctor - in a wheelchair. But why is the profession so scared of taking on disabled people? Dea Birkett reports.
Help is at hand
Accidents, meningitis, depression: some misfortunes are more common among students. Jerome Monahan explains how to be prepared
Students’ Mental Health Needs: Problems and Responses, edited by Nicky Stanley and Jill Manthorpe
Student life is a time of change and adjustment, and students' families as well as staff need resources to help them provide support for students experiencing mental health difficulties. Based on recent research findings and drawing on the experiences of professionals, academics and service users, this book explores how the needs of students can best be met bystudent and community mental health services. All of the contributors to this chapter have lost a son or daughter to suicide. Each of the stories is unique, as are the attempts to understand what led up to the child's death.