Book description
Mental health concerns are the most serious and prevalent health
problems among students in higher education. Increasingly effective
psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments have facilitated
matriculation for students with histories of anxiety, mood, personality,
eating and substance abuse disorders. This phenomenon has been
accompanied by a striking increase in the number of previously
undiagnosed students requesting treatment. College and university mental
health programs struggle to care for larger numbers of students,
necessitating greater interdisciplinary collaboration in treatment,
research, outreach, and educational services.
This book fills an important gap in the literature and provides a
comprehensive resource for nearly every aspect of college mental
health. It includes a strong emphasis on the training and education of
graduate and professional students for future work in this field.
Chapters are devoted to the significant ethical and legal issues
related to treatment and associated administrative and policy
challenges. Scholarly chapters on the promise of community mental
health and public health approaches are especially innovative. There
is also a chapter on international issues in college mental health
which will be helpful to those students studying abroad. Mental
Health Care in the College Community is written by acknowledged
experts from mental health, college and university administration,
legal and educational disciplines, all with extensive administrative
and clinical experience in higher education settings. This book is
clearly written and well illustrated with abundant tables, charts, and figures.
This text will become essential reading for college mental health
clinicians, graduate students in the mental health disciplines
(psychiatry, psychology, counselling, nursing, and social work),
student affairs deans and their staff, and even presidents or provosts
of universities and colleges.
Dr. Kay is a Fellow of the American College of
Psychiatrists and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American
Psychiatric Association and has served as the chair of the APA
Committee on Medical Student Education, the Council on Medical
Education and Career Development, the Vestermark Award Board, and the
Committee on the Practice of Psychotherapy. He chairs the World
Psychiatric Association Task Force on Undergraduate and Post Graduate
Curriculum as well as the APA Committee on College Mental Health. Dr.
Kay is the immediate past chair of the Psychiatry Residency Review
Committee of the ACGME and the Founding Editor of the Journal of
Psychotherapy Practice and Research and Associate Editor of the
American Journal of Psychotherapy. He has published
extensively on the topics of medical and psychiatric education,
medical ethics, child psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, the
neurobiology of psychotherapy, and psychosocial aspects of AIDS and of
cardiac transplantation, and has edited numerous books. Dr. Kay serves
as the Associate Director of the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center at
Wright State University. He received the 2001 APA Seymour Vestermark
Award for contributions to psychiatric education. Dr. Kay's current
research examines fMRI in borderline personality disordered patients
with self-harm behavior.
Dr. Victor Schwartz is currently university dean of students at
Yeshiva University and associate professor of clinical psychiatry at
Yeshiva's Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He established and was
director of the Counseling Center at Yeshiva. Previously Dr. Schwartz
was for many years the medical director and chief psychiatrist at the
University Counseling Service at New York University. He has also
served as assistant director of residency training in psychiatry at
NYU School of Medicine. He is a Distinguished Fellow, an original
member of the Presidential Task Force on College Mental Health and a
member of the Committee on College Mental Health, and co-chair of the
working group on law and college mental health all of the American
Psychiatric Association. He is also a co-chair of the Committee on the
College Student of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. He has
written and lectured extensively on college mental health;
particularly around the areas of the intersection of law,
administration and college mental health, the management of mental
health crises in colleges, psychiatric residency training in college
mental health services and psychopharmacology practice in college
mental health.
Listen
to Dr. Victor Schwartz discuss mental health awareness on college campuses.
Listen
to Dr Schwartz discussing suicide on campus on the Kids Count radio
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