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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.
“There’s a review, but the review just has to do with getting our colleagues to look at what we’re doing with the treatment and what we should be doing differently,” Barreira says.
Chief of Mental Health Richard D. Kadison concedes that during the busiest months, some students must receive slightly less care to accommodate appointments for students with acute distress.
Some students say that they faced disquieting experiences at key moments in their care, including a sense that they were either rushed through intake appointments or faced with excessive wait times at after-hours urgent care.