Rolin Stephanie A, Appelbaum Paul S
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Clinical Psychiatry in the Center for Law, Ethics & Psychiatry, New York, USA.
Center for Law, Ethics & Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2025 May 1. doi: 10.1007/s11920-025-01611-x.
We review recently published literature about the mental health of college students, as well as current court cases litigating colleges' liability for student mental health and safety.
College students experienced a dramatic increase in mental health symptoms during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, with clinically significant increases in anxiety and depression. Meanwhile, in contrast to the past when colleges were mostly immune to liability for harm to students, a major shift occurred with the courts beginning to recognize colleges as having a legally defined "special relationship" to protect students from foreseeable harm. Recently, court cases in many states have expanded the circumstances under which colleges have a responsibility to protect students from themselves and from each other, and to foster students' mental health. The past few years have constituted a changing landscape for colleges with regard to their legal responsibilities related to student mental health. As college students experienced worsening mental health distress, recent court cases increased colleges' liability to ensure safety and create a supportive environment for students' mental health.
我们综述了最近发表的关于大学生心理健康的文献，以及当前诉讼高校对学生心理健康和安全责任的法庭案件。
在新冠疫情早期，大学生心理健康症状急剧增加，焦虑和抑郁症状出现了具有临床意义的上升。与此同时，与过去高校大多对学生所受伤害免于承担责任不同，情况发生了重大转变，法院开始认定高校对保护学生免受可预见伤害负有法律规定的“特殊关系”。最近，许多州的法庭案件扩大了高校有责任保护学生免受自身及他人伤害并促进学生心理健康的情形。在与学生心理健康相关的法律责任方面，过去几年高校面临的情况不断变化。随着大学生心理健康困扰加剧，最近的法庭案件增加了高校确保学生安全并为其心理健康创造支持性环境的责任。
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