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MANY COLLEGE students will use the services of a psychiatrist or psychologist during their undergraduate years, where such services are adequate and readily available. Delineation of the characteristics of students who are likely to seek psychological help can be useful to psychiatric and counseling services in planning for optimum care, both in terms of prevention and treatment. This paper-presents data on students who sought psychiatric help in college and compares them with students who did not receive such help...
...their undergraduate years were noted. The chief of the Psychiatric Service categorized each patient as to the type of disorder and listed the number of visits made to the Psychiatric Clinic. One question in the Final Questionnaire given in the senior year asked for information about psychiatric or counseling help from sources other than the University Health Services. The independent variables for this study thus consist of students who had psychiatric help from the University Health Services and from other sources. For comparison there are those students in the random samples who did not receive any psychiatric help. Slide...
Students who received psychiatric help were then compared with their classmates who received no help on a series of dependent variables. Data for these variables were gathered before or during the freshman year. We wished to determine what factors might be early indicators of the necessity for psychiatric help in terms of social demographic variables, personality characteristics, or various kinds of behavior. A practical matter was also involved. Over the four years there was a certain amount of attrition from the Study, either through leaving Harvard or through unwillingness to participate further in the research. The most complete data, therefore...
...Sophomores Seek No Help...
...considered in this paper, data are available on at least 90 per cent of the sample. The material in Slide 2 also brings out an interesting bit of information. Among the students who entered Harvard with advanced standing, that is, as sophomores, not a single one received psychiatric help during the three or four years of college...