Colleges Limited in What They Can do About Troubled Students

Jared Lee Loughner, who is accused of critically wounding a U.S. congresswoman, fits the profile of a mentally unstable youth. Alan Lipman, Ph.D., J.D., associate clinical professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, says it is clearly known that psychotic breaks usually occur in one's late teens and emerge in one's early 20s.