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Crisis on the College Campus

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

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  1. Crisis on the College Campus Peter Thomas, Ph.D.

  2. 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

  3. Look Who’s Coming to College Not your typical existential crisis anymore

  4. 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%

  5. Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (2011) • PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATIONS 25% • SUICIDAL THOUGHTS OR BEHAVIORS • 16% • PRIOR TREATMENT HISTORIES • 13.2%

  6. Reasons For The Increase • The Advent of Better Psychotropics • The Failure of • De-Institutionalization

  7. Reasons For The Increase • Decrease in Stigma • Increase in Education • Better Diagnosis

  8. 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

  9. Impact On Our Counseling Centers • PROQOL Version 5 (2009) • Professional Quality of Life Scale • ❶ Compassion Satisfaction • ❷ Burnout • ❸ Secondary Traumatic Stress

  10. 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

  11. WhatAre We Doing About it? • Current Trends: • The Rights and Responsibilities of the Modern University (1999, Bickel & Lake) ● The Bystander Era ● The Duty Era

  12. WhatAre We Doing About it? • Current Trends: ● The Facilitator Era

  13. 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.

  14. WhatAre We Doing About it? • Current Trends: ❶ The Shift To Triage ❷ Reaching Out ❸ Branching Out

  15. WhatAre We Doing About it? • Current Trends: Some Other Creative Ideas to Help NAMI Clubs on campus ActiveMindsOnCampus.org Jed Foundation

  16. Group Scenarios

  17. THANK YOU! Peter Thomas, Ph.D.The Holiner Psychiatric GroupMcKinney, Texaspeter.holiner@medicalcitydallas.com

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