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...light of mental health awareness month on campus, this is the firstop-ed in a series on mental health resources at Harvard...
...average, Harvard undergraduates rate their experiences with Harvard’s mental health resources positively (close to 4 on a 5 point scale). But ask a student about his sense of student satisfaction with Harvard’s mental health resources, and this impression quickly disappears. Everyone knows that most students have bad encounters with Harvard’s mental health resources. Because of this negative reputation, Harvard’s mental health resources—rated highly by those who use them—are underutilized to the detriment of many Harvard undergraduates in need...
Harvard offers a plethora of resources, from peer counseling to professional services, tutors to resident deans, but we, the undergraduates, undermine their efforts. Too often, we focus on the negative aspects of Harvard’s mental health system, spreading nightmare stories about clinicians who prescribe medicine in five minutes and forced medical leave for merely mentioning depression. Do any of these urban legends sound familiar...
...pretend that every contact with Harvard’s mental health resources is perfect, but groundlessly disparaging the resources obscures some important facts: about 40 percent of current undergraduates have used a mental health resource while at Harvard; nearly 1000 students went to Mental Health Services at University Health Services (UHS) in the past year alone; and in a survey of over 900 random students, the average satisfaction rating of experience with mental health resources was significantly positive...
Before congratulating the system too much, consider another group of students. In that same survey (which I distributed as part of my thesis research), in an optional open-ended final question, nearly one-third of respondents mentioned that they needed a mental health resource but did not even try to use one because of its negative reputation...