Commentary Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/Psychiatry.2.021
Students’ mental health – Having faced the truth, it is time to face the consequences: A commentary
Tordis Kindt1, Nadja Rabkow2, Stefan Watzke2,*
- 1Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- 2University Clinic and Outpatient Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Germany
Corresponding Author
Stefan Watzke, stefan.watzke@medizin.uni-halle.de
Received Date: August 31, 2021
Accepted Date: December 06, 2021
Kindt T, Rabkow N, Watzke S. Students’ Mental Health – Having faced the truth, it is time to face the consequences: A Commentary. Curr Res Psychiatry. 2022;2(1):1-3.
Copyright: © 2022 Kindt T, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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