Teresa L. Scheid is a Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, with joint appointments in Public Health, Public Policy, and Health Psychology. She has been teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses in mental health for over thirty years. She is co-editor of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems and editor of the four-volume series Mental Health: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare. S. Megan Smith is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she primarily teaches mental health, health and illness, loneliness, and deviance. She was awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Teaching Fellowship, the J. Murrey Atkins Library Award for Faculty Engagement related to teaching instruction, and recently was awarded the inaugural Trailblazer Award through Charlotte’s Center for Teaching and Learning, which recognizes innovation and technology implementation in the classroom.