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

Section I: Background Chapters.- The Practice Gap in Healthcare Transition:  Focus on Young People Heading to College with a Mental Health Condition.- Essential Domains in Transition Planning and the Roles of Various Constituents.- The Range of Post-Secondary Options and Thinking about the Differences between High School and College.- Understanding Campus Mental Health Services and the Campus System of Care.- Adaptation of Pediatric Health Care Transition Guidelines for Use with Youth Heading to College with Mental Illness:  Building a Toolkit.- Section II: Clinical Cases Focusing on Diagnosis.- "Perplexed in Translation": Bringing a Language Disorder to College.- "There is my way.... and then there is my way" - College Transition Challenges for a Student on the Autism Spectrum.- "Time is Not on My Side" - A College Student with ADHD and a Reading Disability.- "Rob's World: Evolving Psychosis and the Transition to College".- "Coping with Highs and Lows":A student with bipolar disorder goes to college.- "Driven to Depression" Overachieving College Student with Recurrent Depressive Episodes.- "There's no Place Like Home": The Challenge of Going to College with Separation Anxiety Disorder.- "This Beer Should Do the Trick": College with a Social Anxiety Disorder.- "Anxiety Galore": Transition to College with Generalized Anxiety Disorder.- "Just Right" Transitioning to College with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.- "My nightmares aren't just about calculus 101": Transitioning to College with PTSD.- "Too Much on My Plate": Transitioning to College with an Eating Disorder.- "Transition in the Weeds": Heading to College with Cannabis Use Disorder.- Stealing Youth:  Personality Disorder goes to College.- Section III.  Clinical Cases Focusing on Special Populations and Situations.- "Baby, Please Don't Change": Transitioning squared, transgender in college.- Juggling Priorities: Staying Sober in College as a Non-traditional Student.-

Adele Martel MD, PhD

Emeritus Medical Staff

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, IL




Jennifer Derenne MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences



Stanford, CA




Patricia K. Leebens MAT, MA, MD Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale Child Study Center