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...process of seeking help for students experiencing distress. Harvard provides by-appointment mental health services through UHS and the BSC, as well as 24-hour urgent care for students who need more immediate help than the appointment process can provide. In addition, students from Harvard’s peer counseling groups—Room 13, ECHO, Response, Contact, PCC—and the Student Mental Health Liaison program work to create a safe space for discussing mental health issues and can help students locate and access appropriate mental health resources and professional services...
...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...
...should also be noted that this expected increase is in line with previous years’ and also with tuition increases at peer institutions. Princeton this year announced that it would raise its tuition by 2.9 percent, Dartmouth by 4.8, and Cornell by 4.9. Harvard is not at all unique in this respect...