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That means that sharing negative hearsay about Harvard’s mental health resources prevents people who need these resources from accessing them. It is our responsibility as Harvard undergraduates to build a supportive community and take care of community members, and part of this responsibility is to reinforce the good done by Harvard’s resources by encouraging friends to use them when they might help...
...mean that Harvard is completely off the hook. There’s certainly a lot Harvard can and should do to improve its resources. Even though students are responsible for recognizing other students who need help and encouraging them to seek help, it is Harvard’s mental health resources that provide that support...
...most important focus of mental health services should be their image problem. Given that students using resources already rate them highly, improving the resources’ image would have the single greatest impact on student mental health. Students may ultimately be responsible for perpetuating this negative reputation, but Harvard’s mental health system should take a proactive and aggressive approach to improving its name...
...starters, a few of Harvard’s resources are notably bad at communicating their availability. It does not matter how effective our clinicians are if students do not know how to meet with them. Although over 90 percent of students reported that they knew about Mental Health Services at UHS, the Office of Sexual Assault, Prevention, and Response (OSAPR), and peer counseling, fewer than two-thirds had heard of the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC). Harvard also needs a website with health and safety information, and contact information posted in every student dorm room for all of its mental...
...addition, Harvard’s mental health resources need to make more personal contact with students. This contact could alleviate some of the possible apprehension about seeking help and would demonstrate the potential helpfulness of using mental health resources for all kinds of situations. Assigning mental health clinicians to freshmen like primary care physicians and requiring a check-in during freshman year could go a long way toward dispelling rumors about what it means to use mental health resources, and make it easier for students to make their first contact. Peer counseling groups should be allowed to present to proctor...