CAPS campus statistics are 
consistent with the trends 
in the Nature Biotechnology 
study.

“We 
are 
also 
seeing 
a 

sustained increase in graduate 
students 
accessing 
CAPS 

services with issues of anxiety 
and 
depression 
identified 

as top concerns,” Monschau 
wrote.

Monschau said 31 percent of 

CAPS services were provided 
to graduate students, of the 
4,638 students serviced in 
total. CAPS has begun to 
target 
graduate 
students 

by providing mental health 
services 
specific 
to 
their 

college, 
positioning 
CAPS 

services within the specific 
University graduate schools. 
These embedded psychologists 
allow professionals to tailor 
their services to the unique 

graduate 
experiences 
of 

students.

“In 
tandem 
with 
the 

extensive work at the CAPS 
main office, the Rackham 
embedded psychologist role 
provides 
counseling 
and 

outreach/work programming 
around 
themes 
unique 
to 

graduate student life, including 
imposter syndrome, increased 
competitiveness of academic 
positions post-degree, stress 
around 
work/life 
balance 

as a graduate students and 
 

feelings 
of 
burnout 
and 

vulnerability,” 
Monschau 

wrote.

Monschau 
emphasized 

the 
different 
experiences 

of 
graduate 
students. 

Students from international 
and 
underrepresented 

communities, she said, are 
reported to have increased 
mental health concerns related 
to microaggressions.

“We see many graduate 

students 
being 
forced 
to 

navigate both the inevitable 
and 
increasing 
pressures 

of 
academic 
life 
demands 

embedded 
in 
a 
volatile 

and 
stressful 
overarching 

political 
environment,” 

Monschau 
wrote. 
“All 
of 

these stressors are greatly 
impacting graduate students 
and the intersectionality of 
these pressures are greatly 
increasing 
vulnerability 
to 

stress, lack of motivation, 
diminished concentration and 
burnout, but to anxiety and 
depression as well.”

Public 
Health 
graduate 

student Alexandra Babcock, 
a graduate student leader for 
Wolverine Support Network, 
said she doesn’t think an 
increase 
in 
mental 
health 

problems 
is 
as 
much 
an 

issue as awareness of these 
concerns.

“I think a lot of the problems 

and struggles have existed and 
people have been suffering 
in silence,” Babcock said. “I 

think it’s what people are 
going to be uncovering.”

Babcock 
said 
the 

rigorous academics of the 
University, research and 
searching for jobs along 
with 
personal 
pressure 

are 
risk 
factors 
she’s 

identified.

“I think striking the 

balance 
can 
be 
very 

overwhelming as well as 
the struggles of people 
moving to a new area,” 
Babcock 
said. 
“They 

move to a new location 
and you have to restart 
your life and that new 
and uncertain thing and 
not knowing what your 
resources are … Coupled 
with the rigors of the 
program and the academia 
are 
challenging 
when 

you don’t have a support 
system right away.”

Babcock 
said 
she 

thinks 
the 
University 

is aware of and values 
students’ mental health 
and is working to make 
sure those resources are 
available for students. She 

said some schools — such as 
Rackham — have embedded 
CAPS resources, but hopes 
more 
schools 
can 
have 

psychological services.

“The 
pressure 
in 
the 

future will be to make sure 
the resources are adequate 
and increasing the resources 
available to students,” Babcock 
said. “I think students see a 
lot of the organizations are 
flexible and it’s just making 
students 
feel 
comfortable 

when they need support or 
help.”

Social 
Work 
student 

Catherine Perez, a member 
of “We Are People Too,” an 
organization supporting Social 
Work student mental health, 
said she sees resources for 
anxiety and depression among 
young adults improving.

“I think that now it’s being 

diagnosed more and people are 
actually seeking mental health 
services,” Perez said. “I think 
the stigma has decreased a 
little bit.”

Perez said mental health 

can specifically be a concern 
in the Social Work community 
because students are tasked 
with taking care of others 
and forgetting to take care of 
themselves.

“Mental health matters,” 

Perez 
said. 
“Social 
Work 

students 
are 
‘superheroes’ 

helping 
their 
clients 
and 

we fail to have self-care for 
ourselves and we just wanted 
to 
build 
a 
community 
to 

support each other and talk 
about our own struggles with 
mental health.”

Perez said mental health 

concerns stem from a build-
up of attempting to balance 
life and work and students feel 
there is too much to do and too 
little time.

“Especially 
among 
grad 

students and Ph.D. students, 
we are supposed to be very 
self-driven and there isn’t too 
much support from the staff, 
whereas 
undergrads 
have 

more support; you have to 
navigate it more on your own,” 
Perez said.

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