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Delivering Effective College Mental Health Services

Lee Keyes

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An essential guide to organizing and offering mental health services on campus.

Stressed by increasing student demand for mental health services, campus counseling centers across the country are grappling with how best to deliver ethical, effective, and efficient service. Hampered by limited budgets, most centers find it deeply challenging to address growing college mental health service needs. Yet little conceptual training is provided to student affairs, higher education, health, and mental health professionals who deliver campus mental health services.

In Delivering Effective College Mental...

An essential guide to organizing and offering mental health services on campus.

Stressed by increasing student demand for mental health services, campus counseling centers across the country are grappling with how best to deliver ethical, effective, and efficient service. Hampered by limited budgets, most centers find it deeply challenging to address growing college mental health service needs. Yet little conceptual training is provided to student affairs, higher education, health, and mental health professionals who deliver campus mental health services.

In Delivering Effective College Mental Health Services, psychologist Lee Keyes aims to change that. He offers sound, field-tested advice for creating a congruent, cross-division, and service-oriented college counseling enterprise that best fits its campus culture and students. This useful handbook for administering counseling services

• poses questions and offers practical advice to help college counseling centers form a consistent philosophical model
• lays out conceptual groundwork for constructing college counseling services, from training activities to counseling/psychotherapy processes
• takes into account the pressures (time related, economic, political, cultural) that strain universities
• explains how to cultivate an accurate and empathic response to each individual, their entire history and context, and their possible life trajectory

Written by a leading provider of college mental health services, Delivering Effective College Mental Health Services is an essential guide to organizing and offering mental health services on university and college campuses.

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A tremendously useful resource that will help counseling centers make decisions that support a more consistent philosophical model throughout their services.

This timely and comprehensive resource on college mental health will benefit anyone working in higher education. For those working in college counseling centers, it should be required reading. As an orientation to the field, it includes an overview of who, how, and why college mental health providers do what they do.

Dr. Keyes provides us with a conceptual framework that allows the examination of campus mental health and developmental services to ensure they address the needs of each particular campus. This is an essential read for college and university administrators, as well as mental health and developmental service providers.

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208
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9781421428857
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Mental Health Paradigms and Service Models at Colleges
Chapter 2. Developing an Accurate Picture of College Students
Chapter 3. Developmental and Societal Factors

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Mental Health Paradigms and Service Models at Colleges
Chapter 2. Developing an Accurate Picture of College Students
Chapter 3. Developmental and Societal Factors Fueling the Clinical Picture
Chapter 4. Orientation Mismatch and Young Adults' Needs
Chapter 5. Outreach and Consultative Work at College Counseling Centers
Chapter 6. Paradigm Conflict in Delivering College Mental Health
Conclusion: A Road Map for Success
References
Index

Author Bio
Lee Keyes
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Lee Keyes

Lee Keyes is the executive director of the Counseling Center at the University of Alabama. He is a past president of the International Association of Counseling Services, Inc.