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...Houses, trained mental health professionals could identify students’ struggles, provide an outlet for students’ concerns, destigmatize seeking and receiving help, handle emergency mental health crises and, when necessary, ease students into longer-term mental health treatment. Just by living among students, they would become aware of the day-to-day pressures of the College and, if trained in the ways of Harvard’s bureaucracy and administration, they could help troubled students navigate them safely...
Right now, however, under-trained and over-worked House tutors and Allston Burr senior tutors are responsible for identifying and addressing their students’ mental health needs. Both receive inadequate training for the responsibilities of counseling upset students, handling mental health emergencies and directing students to care. House tutors undergo a three-day training before the start of each year, of which only a part is devoted to mental health. New senior tutors attend a five-day training program that focuses on mental health for only one day. Even with the improved tutor training that is proposed, tutors could...
Senior tutors hold multiple jobs and often devote significant attention to research and teaching along with administrating, disciplining and providing mental health support for their hundreds of students. House tutors are almost all graduate school or professional school students with busy lives and commitments of their own. And students might feel conflicted when coming to a tutor or senior tutor with a mental health concern about themselves, friends or roommates since tutors and senior tutors have disciplinary responsibilities and can be called upon to write students’ letters of recommendation. Senior tutors help decide whether or not students need...
...resources necessary to hire and house a mental health professional could come from eliminating some of the many resident tutor positions in each House. Many schools, Yale prominently among them, operate with far fewer tutors in each of their residential colleges, and the benefits of having a mental health professional in a House would far surpass those of having another residential tutor...
...four years at Harvard, I have been privy to horror stories about the mental health response of House tutors and senior tutors who have ignored cries for help, failed to uphold confidentiality and mistreated friends and roommates of students suffering from mental health problems. While I have to assume, and desperately hope, that these stories are not the norm, a mental health professional in each House would be far superior to what we have now. Anything else leaves students short changed...