The past twenty years have seen some advantages towards a population approach to mental health (). The issuance of the Global Burden of Disease Study introduced new methods for measuring the contribution of chronic diseases to human suffering and the global burden of mental illnesses (). Mental health is a topic that should be talked about openly in the media and instead of having a negative outlook on should be embraced and an issue that we as future social workers address early on to ensure proper assessments and even interventions. Mental health being stigmatized leads to a higher mortality rate and this is something we are starting to see at younger and younger ages and even on college campuses. Mental health has been a topic since as
