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Crisis on the College Campus. Peter Thomas, Ph.D. Goals and Objectives. Take a look at who is coming to college and universities The increase in acuity on campus How it impacts your counseling center What can we do about it and what are others doing about it. Look Who’s Coming to College.
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Crisis on the College Campus Peter Thomas, Ph.D.
Goals and Objectives • Take a look at who is coming to college and universities • The increase in acuity on campus • How it impacts your counseling center • What can we do about it and what are others doing about it
Look Who’s Coming to College Not your typical existential crisis anymore
Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (2011)http://www.aucccd.org/index.php?page=resources_directorsurveys_nm • ANXIETY 41% • DEPRESSION 37% • RELATIONSHIP ISSUES 35%
Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (2011) • PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATIONS 25% • SUICIDAL THOUGHTS OR BEHAVIORS • 16% • PRIOR TREATMENT HISTORIES • 13.2%
Reasons For The Increase • The Advent of Better Psychotropics • The Failure of • De-Institutionalization
Reasons For The Increase • Decrease in Stigma • Increase in Education • Better Diagnosis
Impact On Our Counseling Centers • http://ccmh.squarespace.com/data/ • Counseling Centers & Colleges typically ill-prepared • Center Limits • No Case Manager • Limited Resources Outside of Campus • Lack of Students with Insurance • Disproportion of Staff to Student • Ratio
Impact On Our Counseling Centers • PROQOL Version 5 (2009) • Professional Quality of Life Scale • ❶ Compassion Satisfaction • ❷ Burnout • ❸ Secondary Traumatic Stress
WhatAre We Doing About it? • Current Trends: • The Rights and Responsibilities of the Modern University (1999, Bickel & Lake) • The Era of In Loco Parentis or Legal Insularity (prior to 1960s) ●The Civil Rights Revolution of the 1960s
WhatAre We Doing About it? • Current Trends: • The Rights and Responsibilities of the Modern University (1999, Bickel & Lake) ● The Bystander Era ● The Duty Era
WhatAre We Doing About it? • Current Trends: ● The Facilitator Era
WhatAre We Doing About it? • Current Trends: • The Meta View is that University Administration and Counseling Center Directors have to decide what level of service they feel they must provide to students to achieve the university and counseling center mission.
WhatAre We Doing About it? • Current Trends: ❶ The Shift To Triage ❷ Reaching Out ❸ Branching Out
WhatAre We Doing About it? • Current Trends: Some Other Creative Ideas to Help NAMI Clubs on campus ActiveMindsOnCampus.org Jed Foundation
THANK YOU! Peter Thomas, Ph.D.The Holiner Psychiatric GroupMcKinney, Texaspeter.holiner@medicalcitydallas.com