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...such efforts are applauded by Judith Wallerstein, the California clinical psychologist who first raised public consciousness about the lasting damage of divorce. After studying 131 children of divorce over a span of 15 years, she found them to be at higher risk for depression, poor grades, substance abuse and intimacy problems. "We started to report this," she says, "and people got angry. They said, 'Impossible! If it's good for the parents, it's good for the children.' They wanted to believe that divorce and women's lib would take care of everything...
Often, students who are depressed for a specific reason need immediate help which may not be provided by the daily urgent-care periods. Harvard's short-term care system could benefit from having a psychologist available at UHS on demand, for students who want an individual meeting with an experienced practitioner...
First, UHS does not guarantee specialized individual emergency therapy on demand. Students who want to see a psychologist, psychiatrist or psychiatric social worker can make an appointment, but the earliest a therapist can see a student is usually about 10 to 15 days away...
...also does not provide more frequent or more extensive therapy, choosing instead to refer undergraduates to private practitioners or one of Harvard's nearby teaching hospitals. One sophomore who suffers from clinical depression said she went to a private psychologist because she felt that there was a lack of psychologists in UHS who would see someone on a regular basis...
Students who make appointments at UHS canchoose to see a male or female psychiatrist,psychologist or psychiatric social worker. Forthose who cannot wait to schedule an appointment,UHS runs three one-hour urgent care periods daily(please see graphic below...