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Often, students who are depressed for a specific reason need immediate help which may not be provided by the daily urgent-care periods. Harvard's short-term care system could benefit from having a psychologist available at UHS on demand, for students who want an individual meeting with an experienced practitioner...
...College could improve its mental health care system by doing three basic things: guaranteeing therapy from UHS on demand, providing long-term extensive therapy when necessary and improving the support network to catch potential depression cases...
First, UHS does not guarantee specialized individual emergency therapy on demand. Students who want to see a psychologist, psychiatrist or psychiatric social worker can make an appointment, but the earliest a therapist can see a student is usually about 10 to 15 days away...
...wonder Chicago looked like heaven. World War II had sparked an upsurge in factory jobs, and black workers from the South were suddenly in demand. Yet the influx of migrants, and the refusal of white neighborhoods to integrate, gave rise to ghettos. As the series moves into the 1960s, familiar urban dynamics start to appear: the emergence of gangs and drug-related violence, as well as the arrival of civil rights activists, who fought to integrate the city and faced opposition as fierce as anything encountered in Little Rock or Selma...
...increasingly frustrated with our tendency in North America to pander to the lowest common denominator, a practice known as participatory democracy. Both U.S. and Canadian democracies are supposed to be based on representation by principled leaders. The Achilles' heel of today's North American political environment is the demand for the government to be slavishly obedient to the mass of ``empowered'' individuals, neatly packaged among a multitude of special-interest groups. In everyday matters, our expectations of government are limitless. Yet we hamstring its ability to act freely with propositions, referendums and excessive public-opinion polls. The environment...