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...useful lesson for American adults, two-thirds of whom are overweight or obese. Long-term weight loss has proved frustratingly elusive for many obese individuals, but study after study has shown that community and peer support help people take off weight - and keep it off. In this study, the participants who took advantage of group and individual counseling offered as part of the diets had far greater success than those who chose to go it alone. Over the course of two years, participants who went to at least two-thirds of the counseling sessions dropped about...
...Harvard College has a long tradition of student participation in promoting the emotional well-being of students. Room 13 was founded in the late 1960’s by Margie McKenna ’70, who is a psychiatrist at MHS. There are now five separate peer counseling programs, supervised by BSC and MHS staff. The student-run group, Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group, began 12 years ago. Now, we have the Community Health Initiative, Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors, the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Student Alliance and the Student Mental Health Liaisons, all dedicated...
...services and the utilization of mental health services comes from Judy Herbstman ’07’s senior thesis. Each year for the past four years, Mental Health Advocacy and Awareness Group has sponsored small discussion groups and major guest speakers. Students are eager to serve as peer counselors and they provide a growing number of students with confidential peer support...
...friends” are conspiring against him. More generally, though, adolescence tends to represent the stage in life in which one’s life is “f***ed” by social forces beyond one’s control, often represented by parents, teachers, or peer pressure. This feeling of adolescent helplessness is the analog for our current economic condition. As a teenager, one’s fundamental capabilities seem undefined and one’s independence constantly under threat. As we look ahead nationally to a period of economic reorganization—a slump...
...dialogue that allows people to really speak up about their concerns,” Holoshitz said. The week is co-sponsored by a number of other student groups, including the Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group, the student mental health liaisons, Community Health Initiative, and Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors. “It affects every single student on this campus,” said Andrea R. Flores ’10, UC president. “The main issue with mental health is getting people comfortable with seeking out resources.” Two years ago, the mental health...