Commentary: Toward Collaboration and Case Management in College Mental Health

Abstract

In response to the challenges posited by Eileen P. Anderson-Fye and Jerry Floersch in their article on college student mental health, a psychologist and counseling center director reflects on the implications for university counseling and psychological service centers. Among other things, issues related to high-risk students, the developmental barriers to help-seeking behavior, the increasing utilization of psychotropic medications, and the broadening mandate of campus mental health providers are addressed. Finally, interdisciplinary collaboration in service to university students is encouraged. [mental health, university counseling services, adolescents and college students, psychotropic medication]

A Wellbeing Specialist Case Management Service Providing Support to Students in a University Setting

“…Further to this, an Australian study found social capital is closely linked with the wellbeing of tertiary education students (Bye et al, 2020). Case management services focused on student wellbeing have been well documented in the literature as being an effective service provision within the tertiary education system in the United States (Evans et al, 2020;Heitzmann, 2011). A practical case management approach has foundations in building social capital, which is closely linked with the principles of PERMA.…”