There is a great deal of attention, in professional communities and the lay public, to a college mental health crisis. This article will review the dominant narrative of this situation, identifying and challenging the common elements of the narrative. The author will locate this college mental health crisis narrative in historical context,…

With the rise in demand for mental health services on college and university campuses, counseling centers have engaged in numerous creative methods to expand services to meet these increasing demands. One approach within campus counseling centers, with promise, is embedded therapists. Despite the increasing application of embedded therapists,…

Tuition fees and increasing mental health needs in students are changing the nature of Higher Education (HE) and creating tensions between HE and embedded counselling services. These are illustrated and explained using Bourdieu's concepts of field and capital. It is recommended that the field of counselling should expand to meet evolving student…

Teachers in their first few years of their teaching career require high quality, structured support to begin the journey towards becoming experts. Establishing research-based best practices and working habits set up early career teachers for a fulfilling and successful career. The requirements of teachers are constantly changing, and teachers need…

Campus police officers are often among the initial contacts for behavioral incidents involving people with mental illness. Their training and access to resources influence decisions to direct the individual to support services and/or through campus disciplinary processes and/or the criminal justice system. Over the past decade, there has been an…

The author presents a commentary on a special issue of the "Journal of College Counseling". The articles included in the issue describe the mental health needs and counseling center utilization patterns of the diverse population of college students. The establishment of the Center for Collegiate Mental Health has created the opportunity to study…

Students visiting college counseling centers experience a broad range of complex and sometimes severe concerns that are often not adequately addressed by existing clinical measures. In response, the Millon College Counseling Inventory (MCCI;T. Millon, S. N. Strack, C. Millon, & S. Grossman, 2006) was specifically designed for use with…

Against the backdrop of a massive expansion in higher education, the number of students in higher education (HE) experiencing mental health problems is increasing, which poses a significant challenge to HE institutions in terms of how they best respond to students with mental health needs. This paper considers the implications of such developments…

The formation and function of a broadly based university planning group and its strategies for planning and education of various academic decision-making bodies that emerged in the adoption of the Institute Personal Assistance Program for troubled employees in a large university setting are described. (JMF)

A survey of 64 educators in graduate social work programs examined mental health issues of American Indians and Alaskan Natives, Asian Americans, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans and gathered recommendations relating to ethnic minority faculty and mental health professionals, curriculum development, mental health social work issues and…

Student psychiatric morbidity is rising. Whilst the influence of university counselling services is widely reported, NHS involvement by psychiatrists and general practitioners is not so well described. Counselling and mental health service providers for students at the University of Leeds were approached for numerical data and a university Group…

College students enrolled in a required, general studies personal health course were studied to determine if individuals who reported more self-actualizing characteristics also reported more preventive health practices. Results support this theory and suggest that mental health promotion should be a central focus of health education. (DF)

Hearings before the House Select Committee on Aging were held to examine programs, purposes, and needs related to education and training of personnel in all aspects of care and services to the elderly population. Statements and discussions included a review of National Institute on Aging programs into medical aspects of aging; a review of the…

A handbook of health issues for college students is presented. Prevention is the keynote, stressing the importance of staying healthy and recovering quickly. Information is organized in a question-and-answer format. The 12 chapters are as follows: nutrition: food as fuel (e.g. acne and diet and daily caloric requirements); exercise: fine-tuning…

The concern with licensure and certification is responsive to the profession's need to insure that individuals entering into the practice of psychology are well grounded in the core body of knowledge appropriate to such practice. Current trends toward exclusivity in licensure and certification, however, will have a disproportionately adverse…