Brainwave Entrainment

Why Universities Should Implement BWE

Anxiety levels are at an all-time high among college students and are continuing to climb. Of students seeking mental health care, 40% seek treatment of anxiety (Grasgreen, 2011). Current forms of therapy available for the treatment of anxiety on campuses are not doing enough to stop the increase in students seeking mental health care. Brainwave entrainment is a widely successful medium of stress-reduction therapy with increased effectivity on patients within the college age range (Scouranec, Poirier, Owens, Gauthier, & al, 2001). This technology should be implemented into university mental health care programs and made available to students.

College campuses are fraught with a myriad of stressors: exams, GPA, student loans, lectures, etc. Due to these stressors, state-trait anxiety is reaching new heights in college students. “Anxiety is a normal reaction that is experienced in the presence of a stressor…” (Lau, Eley, & Stevenson, 2006). Anxiety management is a major struggle for many college students. Classes, jobs, extra-curricular activities, and a social life are constantly juggled by students in order to maintain the lifestyle of a university education. As the pressure and expectations continue to rise, so do the stress levels of students. Stress levels are on the rise in college students, primarily in state-trait anxiety increases (Lindsey, 2014, p. 407). While stress is nearly inevitable in the advanced academic environment of a university as students attempt to balance their classes, social lives, and occupations, that stress is reaching new heights and beginning to deteriorate the quality of living and life satisfaction in students, leading to an increase in mental health disorders in college students (Holinka, 2015).

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