Assignment

Name: Rabail Fatima

Roll. No: l1f16bssy0008
Course: School Psychology
Submitted to: Mam Momina Nayyar
Date: 28 June 2020
Challenges of college life:
Home Sickness
Those who experience homesickness might notice an increase in depressed
feelings, anxiety, obsessive thoughts and minor physical ailments. Some students
start being mildly sad and depressed before leaving home, This is because of the
change. Some become eventually fine but then they get homesickness after their
semester break.

Anxiety
Anxiety is a reaction of everyday stressful events. Many students experience some
anxiety throughout their day and in some way it can help them go through almost
every difficult situation. However, anxiety can also become severe and long
lasting.
Difficulty Sleeping
As very few college students get to sleep eight hours every day, this is a very big
problem that students face. Lack of sleep become a risk factors to many other
physical and mental issues. Many of the health issues came from inadequate sleep.
Their tough routine and the stress of studies make them sleep less.

Stress Management
Stress is a reaction to everyday demands on our energy. There are various ways
you may experience stress. Sometimes, our stress spills over into an unproductive
feeling or mindset. And sometimes stress actually helps you get you work done.

Depression
There are some days our mood may change throughout the time. At times, we may
feel especially “down” or “tired”. If this “down” feeling also includes changing
habits of eating, destroyed sleeping patterns and low energy, and this seems to last
for a few weeks, you may be experiencing symptoms of depression. 
Suicide
Suicide is mostly the result of depression and feeling of doomed self. There are
many factors that make a person take his own life. The peer pressure, pressure
from family and the competition to reach the best level eventually leads student to
this point.

Eating Disorders

Eating disorders affect both women and men, these are often triggered by major
life transitions, including going away to college or home. Students may suffer with
anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. Eating too much or not eating enough. These
both habits develop so many health issues plus mental issues as well.

Causal factors of problems students face in college:

All these psychological issues that students face in college maybe the result of
societal and peer pressure. There are so many reasons of destroyed mental health.
The pressure of grades, the pressure of being in the toppers race. The pressure of
being looking good, the pressure of being smart. Students being ridiculed because
of their shy and introvert nature that make them loose their confidence and self
esteem.

Financial and economic crisis can also be the reason of destroyed mental health.

Our pathetic mental health care system is also the reason.

People’s problematic attitude towards mental health is that main reason that the
person with psychological problems, get worst rather than getting better.

Confusions of roles and broken family structure is also the causal factors of mental
disorders. Failure of education system make students believe that they can’t do
anything and get in the competition of good grades.
Student Development Theory refers to a concept that seeks to understand and
explain the developmental processes of how students learn, grow, and develop in
their college life. Student development theory has been defined as a “collection of
theories related to college students that explain how they grow and develop
holistically, with increased complexity, while enrolled in a college life. Sanford's
theory of challenge and support says that for optimal student developmental
growth in a college environment, challenges must be met with supports that can
tolerate enough the stress of the challenge itself.

(Copied as it is)Student development theories, such as Sanford's theory of

challenge and support, are not meant to be used alone in practice. It is important to
acknowledge that multiple theories, such as Astin's involvement
theory, Chickering's theory of identity development, Kohlberg's theory of moral
development, Rendon's theory of validation, Schlossberg's theory of mattering and
marginality, Schlossberg's transition theory, among others, can be cross pollinated
in an individual student's situation. Often the intersection of many student
development theories is what is most effective in working with postsecondary
college or university student environments.