Depression negatively impacts students' academic performance through feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and lack of motivation. Depressed students often receive lower grades and spend less time on schoolwork. Untreated depression can interfere with daily activities and social development. Schools need to provide accommodations and support for depressed students to help improve their mood, functioning, and success. Early identification and treatment of student depression is crucial.
Depression negatively impacts students' academic performance through feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and lack of motivation. Depressed students often receive lower grades and spend less time on schoolwork. Untreated depression can interfere with daily activities and social development. Schools need to provide accommodations and support for depressed students to help improve their mood, functioning, and success. Early identification and treatment of student depression is crucial.
Depression negatively impacts students' academic performance through feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and lack of motivation. Depressed students often receive lower grades and spend less time on schoolwork. Untreated depression can interfere with daily activities and social development. Schools need to provide accommodations and support for depressed students to help improve their mood, functioning, and success. Early identification and treatment of student depression is crucial.
Depression negatively impacts students' academic performance through feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and lack of motivation. Depressed students often receive lower grades and spend less time on schoolwork. Untreated depression can interfere with daily activities and social development. Schools need to provide accommodations and support for depressed students to help improve their mood, functioning, and success. Early identification and treatment of student depression is crucial.
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Impact of Teen Depression on Academic Performance
Introduction Depression is one of the emotional problems, and hopelessness and helplessness are its main causes. Depression is a prevalent problem among college's students across the world and it effect on a students' ability to perform activities of daily life. Depression is marked by sad feelings among college students which are known as a common mental illness. Depressed students often feel sad and reductions in academic performance. Untreated depression usually interferes in day- today activities and lasts for a long time. Depressed people ignore their own successes and good traits, while exaggerating their faults and failures. Student's academic performance which every individual have to perform in all cultures has become an important goal of the educational process. Student's personality, education, motivation, mental health and training also effect academic performance. College life can be called a significant transition period, where students experience many things first time, in, for example new lifestyle, exposure to new cultures, friends, roommates, different ways of thinking and also deal with a unique amount of stress. When students cannot manage these new first experiences, they become depressed. There are negative effects of depression on student success. Student's success is negatively related with depression, and depressed students exposed lower average point and spend minimum time on homework.
Gather the Facts
* Every year more cases of anxiety and depression are reported in children and teens. 1 in every 8 children has anxiety, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA). * Anxiety disorders affect one in eight children. Research shows that untreated children with anxiety disorders are at higher risk to perform poorly in school, miss out on important social experiences, and engage in substance abuse. * Anxiety and depression negatively influence academic progress and encourage under- achievement. Teens or students with a high level of anxiety score lower on IQ and achievement tests than their peers. * In 2011, the ADAA’s national survey found more than 62 percent of students who withdrew from college with mental health problems did so because of an anxiety disorder. * The most frequently diagnosed psychological disorder is major depressive disorder. Although reported prevalence rates vary widely, typical estimates suggest that as many as 13% women and 5% men experience depression during their lifetimes.
Determine the Ethical Issues
Students who have mental disorder like depression are at risk of suffering from poor academic performance and resistance to anything school-related. This can include lack of engagement in the classroom, poor relationships with peers and teachers, and disinterest in pursuing passions and planning for the future. In the issue of the students, it can be stated that the competing interests are risking their physical and mental health condition to meet the demands and academic needs of the school and the negative impact of depression on their academic performance. Identify the Principle that Have a Bearing on the Case Principles of school mental health promotion have been proposed in which it identified the importance of the school environment to children’s social development, noting that “by maintaining a sound system of education and upbringing, you produce citizens of good character”. Universal promotion of mental health programmes often focuses on constructs such as social and emotional skills, positive behaviours, social inclusion, effective problem solving, and good citizenry. Suicide risk should be regularly assessed throughout the course of treatment. Where appropriate, family or friends should also be consulted. Paradoxically, suicide risk may increase when patients begin to show response, partly because energy level may improve before the mood does. One of the strongest clinical predictors of suicide is hopelessness, so the assessment of suicide risk should include inquiries into the patient’s plans or hopes.
List the Alternatives
In mental health treatment, ethical dilemmas may arise because of differences between a clinician’s personal values and beliefs and those of the patient, even when both individuals have the same cultural heritage. Patients and clinicians often differ in the meaning they attach to psychiatric diagnoses, for example, and in their beliefs about the utility of psychotropic medication and/or psychotherapy. These differences are seemingly amplified and extended when the doctor-patient relationship occurs within a cross-cultural setting.
Compare the Alternatives with the Principles
When we think of trying to manage depression we think of engaging in therapy or taking medication. While those things are helpful, and are often recommended for anyone with clinical depression, there are many other things that can also be helpful that are sometimes overlooked. Additionally, there are many ways to deal with depression that have better long term outcomes (and lower relapse rates) than psychotherapy or medication alone.
Assess the Consequences
Depression in teens is associated with a broad range of negative health condition, including suicide attempts, completed suicides, and negative health outcomes such as pregnancy and early parenthood. Teen depression also is associated with subsequent adult depression and other psychiatric disturbances. Day-to-day functional impairment that accompanies depression is part of the definition of a depressive disorder. Many depressed teens also experience comorbid problems, such as anxiety, substance use disorders, inattention, and hyperactivity. Cross-sectional studies demonstrated significant impairment in the daily lives of depressed teens, such as dropping out of high school, smoking, and experiencing sexual assault.
Make a Decision When depression is recognized early and when professionals provide treatment, young people can experience improved mood and function better in school and life. Thus, the stakes are high. School personnel play a pivotal role in identifying depression—and intervening. Teachers, administrators, and other school staff must also be knowledgeable about depression because the disorder can seriously impair academic and interpersonal behavior at school. Depression can have broad negative effects on students' academic work and comfort in school, schools need to provide a variety of accommodations and instructional strategies to increase these students' success. Depression in children and adolescents has significant implications for students' academic, behavioral, social, and physical well-being. School personnel must educate themselves on the characteristics and effects of depression, so they can provide the most effective interventions. Educators are responsible for not only meeting the academic needs of depressed students, but also ensuring their safety and welfare.
