Word: mentalism
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...three committees—on alcohol, mental health services and Hilles—have reports in final draft form...
Every undergraduate commencing today has been at the University long enough to have experienced Harvard’s academic excellence firsthand. Each has also been here long enough to recognize that Harvard is a stressful place, fertile ground for mental health concerns to develop or worsen. The 2002 National College Health Assessment, which surveyed 930 Harvard students, found that 58.6 percent of undergraduates at the College felt things were hopeless during the previous year while 9.5 percent had been diagnosed with depression...
Numbers like these are bolstered by countless pieces of anecdotal evidence that I've heard and seen during my time at Harvard. I'd be surprised to meet a student who has made it through Harvard without suffering from a mental health concern or having felt the effects of one as a friend or roommate of someone...
...battle to provide mental healthcare for students, a residential support system is the first line of defense. It is in the 12 upperclass Houses that students spend a majority of their waking hours, find academic and personal advisors, forge friendships and experience some of the most difficult struggles of their college careers...
This year, Harvard has made an effort to improve the quality of mental healthcare provided for its students, but it has failed to make a significant stride towards better care in the Houses. At the start of the fall semester, Harvard created the Student Mental Health Task Force to recommend ways to improve the system of mental healthcare at Harvard. Just last month, Harvard hired Paul J. Barreira, a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and chair of the task force, to oversee mental health services at the University starting July 1. But while Barreira has said that students will see changes...