Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard can be a pretty stressful and depressing place, especially if you have nowhere to turn. A recent article in The Crimson reported that 12 to 15 percent of undergraduates are seen by mental health services during their years at Harvard...
...these, about one-third, or 300 undergraduates, have some form of depression, estimates Dr. Randolph Catlin Jr., director of the Mental Health Service at University Health Services (UHS). With so many depressed undergraduates, Harvard clearly needs to do more to help its students than it currently does...
...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...
Other schools offer services of much higher quality than Harvard's. Yale's mental health services division, for example, is able to provide long-term therapy without making private referrals. At Harvard, students generally pay for private therapy themselves, whereas Yale's treatment is included in the school's health plan...
While Harvard's mental health services also handles faculty and staff, Yale's treats only students and is thus able to offer more student care...