Promoting Safe and Effective Transitions to College for Youth with Mental Health Conditions

Chapter 1 The Practice Gap in Health Care Transition: Focus on Young People Heading to College with a Mental Health Condition

Chapter 2 Essential Domains in Transition Planning and the Roles of Various Constituents

Chapter 3 The Range of Postsecondary Options and Thinking About the Differences Between High School and College

Chapter 4 Understanding Campus Mental Health Services and the Campus System of Care

Chapter 5 Adaptation of Pediatric Health Care Transition Guidelines for Use with Youth Heading to College with Mental Illness: Building a Toolkit

Chapter 6 Perplexed in Translation: Bringing a Language Disorder to College

Chapter 7 “There Is My Way … and Then There Is My Way”: College Transition Challenges for a Student on the Autism Spectrum

Chapter 8 “Time Is Not on My Side”: A College Student with ADHD and a Reading Disability

Chapter 9 Rob’s World: Evolving Psychosis and the Transition to College

Chapter 10 Coping with Highs and Lows: A Student with Bipolar Disorder Goes to College

Chapter 11 Driven to Depression: Overachieving College Student with Recurrent Depressive Episodes

Chapter 12 “There’s No Place Like Home”: The Challenge of Going to College with Separation Anxiety Disorder

Chapter 13 “This Beer Should Do the Trick!”: Heading to College with Social Anxiety Disorder

Chapter 14 “Anxiety Galore”: Transition to College with Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Chapter 15 “Just Right”: Transitioning to College with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Chapter 16 “My Nightmares Aren’t Just About Calculus 101”: Transitioning to College with PTSD

Chapter 17 “Too Much on My Plate”: Transitioning to College with an Eating Disorder

Chapter 18 Transition in the Weeds: Heading to College with a Cannabis Use Disorder

Chapter 19 Stealing Youth: Personality Disorder Goes to College

Chapter 20 “Baby, Please Don’t Change”: Transitioning Squared, Transgender in College

Chapter 21 Juggling Priorities: Staying Sober in College as a Nontraditional Student

Chapter 22 Moving Forward by Taking Medical Leave: A Paradoxical Path to Success

Chapter 23 Half a World Away: The Mental Health Journey of an International Student

Chapter 24 “If I Am Not an Athlete, Then Who Am I?” Portrait of a Depressed Student-Athlete

Chapter 25 The Challenge of Coming in First: Helping First-Generation College Students Win Beyond Getting In

Chapter 26 Fostering Transitions to College: Considerations for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

Chapter 27 Helping Patients and Families Navigate the Transition to College: Common Themes, Lessons Learned, and Best Practices