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游客2023-11-03  11
问题     According to the American College Health Association’s most recent annual national survey, 30 percent of college students reported feeling "so depressed that it was difficult to function" at some time over the past year. Nearly three fourths of respondents in a 2011 National Alliance on Mental Illness study of college students diagnosed with mental health conditions said they experienced a mental health crisis while in school. The Americans with Disabilities Act(ADA)and other federal disability laws prohibit discrimination against students whose psychiatric(精神病的)disabilities "substantially limit a major life activity" and mandates that colleges and universities provide them with "reasonable accommodations"—such as lower course loads and extended deadlines.
    Despite that very clearly stated law, dozens of current students across the country told Newsweek they were punished for seeking help: kicked out of campus housing with nowhere else to go, abruptly forced to withdraw from school and even involuntarily committed to psychiatric wards. "Colleges are very accustomed to accommodating learning and physical disabilities, but they don’t understand simple ways of accommodating mental health disabilities," says Professor Peter Lake, an expert on higher education law and policy who sees widespread fear and reluctance across the board to "promote diversity that encompasses mental disabilities and mood disorders. " Lake often tells skeptics about a man who suffered from clinical depression and constantly talked about suicide: His name was Abraham Lincoln. "We don’t want to remove these people," Lake says. "We want to expand the definition of diversity to make sure they’re included. "
    Most lifetime cases of mental health conditions begin by the age of 24, and thanks to a variety of factors, including rising antidepressant(抗抑郁药)prescription rates and stigma reduction efforts, college students are more and more likely to ask campus counselors for assistance. The number of students seeking counseling for "severe" psychological problems jumped from 16 percent in 2000 to 39 percent in 2012; the percentage of students who report suicidal thoughts has risen along with it.
    "Schools should encourage students to seek treatment. But a lot of policies I see involve excessive use of discipline and involuntary leaves of absence, and they discourage students from asking for the help they need," says Karen Bower, a private attorney who specializes in disability discrimination cases in higher education. "Ultimately, that makes the campus less safe. "
    Two large-scale studies found that around 10 percent of college student respondents had thought about suicide in the past year, but only 1.5 percent admitted to having made a suicide attempt. Combined with data from other studies, that suggests that the odds that a student with suicidal thoughts will actually commit suicide are 1,000 to 1. "Thus, policies that impose restrictions on students who manifest suicidal thought will sweep in 999 students who would not commit suicide for every student who will end his or her life," Paul S. Appelbaum writes in Law & Psychiatry:"Depressed? Get Out!"
    "Colleges don’t want people who are suicidal around, so what’s supposed to happen to them?" says Ira Burnim, legal director of the DC Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. "We’re going to lock them in a bomb shelter?" Kicking students off campus for mental health issues typically does more harm than good by isolating them from their support systems when what they really need is stability and empathy, he says. Moreover, it’s often a completely unnecessary overreaction. [br] According to the passage, which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
选项 A、30% of college students suffered from serious depression last year.
B、Nearly 75% of students experienced mental health problems in school.
C、There are some law clauses to forbid discrimination on mental disabilities.
D、Students with mental health problems can have lower academic loads.
答案 B
解析 细节题。第一段第二句提到，2011年，被心理疾病联盟诊断为心理健康状况不佳的大学生中，有接近四分之三的受访者称曾在学校经历过心理健康危机。由此可知，只是受访者中有75％的学生曾在学校中经历过心理健康危机，而不是所有学生中的75％，[B]扩大了范围，故为答案。根据第一段第一句可知，根据美国大学健康协会最新年度的全国调查，有30％的学生称，在过去的一年中，有些时候会感到“如此沮丧，难以正常生活”，故排除[A]；根据第一段第三句可知，《美国残疾人法案》和其他联邦残疾法规都有规定，不得对“严重影响主要生活活动”的精神残疾学生有所歧视，并要求院方为他们进行“合理的调整”，比如减轻课业压力、延长最后期限，故排除[C]和[D]。
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