As Demand For Mental Health Services Rises, Colleges Scramble To Provide Resources To Students

  • 📰 NPR
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 50 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 23%
  • Publisher: 63%

Education Education Headlines News

Education Education Latest News,Education Education Headlines

Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among college students. After six NYU students died by suicide in a 12-month span in 2003 and 2004, the school overhauled its approach to student mental health and became a national model. (wgbhnews)

among college students after accidents. Administrators across the country are scrambling to provide more mental health services on campus.

"Addressing the campus mental health crisis by hiring more counselors is a little like trying to solve Boston's traffic problem by building more roads," she said. “Schools have to change,” said David Gleason, a clinical psychologist in Concord, Massachusetts. “We are responsible for the cultures we create.”

To help do that, Gleason suggests high schools and colleges make drastic cultural and academic changes, but he worries that without financial incentives, they won’t. “If you think that everything you say to your counselor is going to be disclosed to your parents, you as a student might not be forthcoming,” Medwed said, adding that the law does allow students to waive their right to privacy and disclose their mental health records to their parents.“Absent a waiver from the student, they don’t necessarily know when it’s appropriate to disclose these items, because it could be subjecting them to potential litigation and liability,” he said.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

wgbhnews NYU student here and I can assure you, it is still horrible

wgbhnews i had one appointment with my therapist at nyu and then he didn’t have another opening for an appointment for the next three months. they aren’t redefining shit, they just think that one intake session will change your life.

wgbhnews nyu didn’t improve mental health resources they just got better at hiding it via their PR team, four (4) NYU students died by suicide in the past year

wgbhnews Any NYU student can tell you- NYU should not be seen as a positive mental health model. Given multiple suicides have happened in the last year and will likely continue since mental health resources are spread thin, npr needs to do some serious fact checking

wgbhnews the brilliant model is mostly just to force struggling students off campus “for their health” so

wgbhnews literal graduate of nyu's school of social work and imma tell you this right now this is 1000% bullshit

wgbhnews If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (En Español: 1-888-628-9454; Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the Crisis Text Line by texting 741741.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 96. in EDUCATİON

Education Education Latest News, Education Education Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Former Boston College student charged in boyfriend's suicide to be arraignedFormer Boston College student charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with her boyfriend's suicide will be arraigned Friday in a Boston court.
Source: ABC - 🏆 471. / 51 Read more »

College student falls 150 feet to her death after slipping off cliff on night hikeA 20-year-old college student plunged 150 feet to her death after she slipped and fell off the edge of a cliff while hiking in an upstate New York park late Monday night. According to the Kingston Police Department, authorities were notified around 9:50 p.m. on Monday night that a female had fallen
Source: YahooNews - 🏆 380. / 59 Read more »