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Students and UHS administrators have endlessly debated the quality of Harvard’s mental health services, which treats about 15 percent of the students in the College—or roughly 1,000 undergraduates—in any given school year, according to Director of Behavioral Health and Academic...
The wrongful death lawsuit filed against Harvard College and UHS last November focused campus attention on potential issues with UHS’s mental health policies. The family of John B. Edwards III ’10, who committed suicide in Nov. 2007, alleges that the negligent psychiatric care that...
While several students say that UHS services have improved in recent years, particularly praising the accessibility of appointments, others say they have encountered frustrating limits on the amount of therapy they can receive or have had negative experiences with therapists during some of their most vulnerable moments.
One of the primary concerns among students who have frequented UHS mental health services over an extended period of time is the perceived restriction on the number of visits they are permitted.
Rachel, a freshman whose name has also been changed, says she was similarly limited to one therapy session every two weeks—inadequate for her needs. Though she liked her therapist, she says she stopped receiving care at UHS because of the limited amount of help the system could...