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That service is the walk-in clinic...
...Homes are much less stable than they used to be," says Dr. Randolph Catlin, chief of the Harvard University Mental Health Services. "The increasing divorce rate and instability in the family has, I'm sure, a lot to do with it." Catlin, who directs the clinic on the third floor of the University Health Services (UHS) in Holyoke Center, says that the more materialistic values which prevail today might be a cause of increasing psychological problems. "In the last few years there's been increasing emphasis on responsibility" which leads to increasing stress, the UHS counselor says...
Undergraduate use of the clinic's counseling services has been consistently growing through the years, according to Catlin. He says that the relatively calm political climate of the past decade has spawned the increase in the number of Harvard students seeking counseling. "In the '60s people could deal with their problems by externalizing them," Catlin says, "I know that here in the '60s, when there was a lot of activity, we had very little business. Activity is the antidote to anxiety...
...mental health clinic at UHS has a staff of five psychiatrists, five psychologists, and a number of social workers who coordinate various other programs. Last year, the mental health clinic received about 3000 visits from 750 undergraduates, Catlin says. Most visits are made by appointment, but there is also a walk-in service and a psychologist always on call...