University Employees' Perceptions of University Counseling Center Services and Consultation Activities: A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis

McWhirter, Benedict T.; Palombi, Barbara J.; Garbin, Calvin P.

doi:10.1002/j.2161-1882.2000.tb00174.x

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“…The results of a survey of university-college faculty and staff suggest that counseling centers could communicate better about consultation services typically offered by centers in order to increase center use, improve effectiveness of treatment through earlier identification of students needing services, and reduce inappropriate referrals to counseling services (McWhirter, Palombi, & Garbin, 2000). Campus personnel who interact with students throughout the course of their day on campus are in the best position to notice early indicators of concern (American College Health Association, 2013).…”

Section: Liaison Programsmentioning

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Outreach as intervention: The evolution of outreach and preventive programming on college campuses.

Golightly

Thorne

Iglesias

et al. 2017

Psychological Services

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It is widely acknowledged that demand for clinical services at university and college counseling centers (CCs) has increased over the last several years. CCs have had to adapt service delivery methods to meet the demand for services. One of the more recent developments in CCs lies in providing primary (preventive) interventions to the campus at-large through outreach and preventive programming. These interventions are aimed toward reducing demand as opposed to promoting services and gathering potential clients. This article describes changes in outreach delivery in 3 ways. First, descriptions of some of the more prevalent and proactive outreach activities are given. Brief explanations concerning the increased emphasis on social justice, large-scale events, campus partnerships, liaison programs, satellite offices-embedded models, uses of electronic and technological advances, postvention and community response, and topic-specific programming are given. Second, the changing administrative functions of those in charge of outreach at individual CCs is described. Last, a description of the establishment and ongoing need for a national organization for outreach administrators and professionals is outlined. Recent survey data completed by outreach professionals are also discussed, as are future directions and implications for how CCs quantify training and direct service activities. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Section: Liaison Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Outreach as intervention: The evolution of outreach and preventive programming on college campuses.

Golightly

Thorne

Iglesias

et al. 2017

Psychological Services

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“…Counseling centers also work collaboratively with campus organizations—in a liaison consultant role—to develop programs that meet students’ needs. A center can consult on broader systemic issues (e.g., help develop a conflict-resolution protocol) or on individual students of concern (McWhirter, Palombi, & Garbin, 2000). Though this form of consultation is the most obvious link to threat assessment, it is far from the only relevant aspect of CC’s responsibilities.…”

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University counseling centers’ role in campus threat assessment and management.

Perloe

Pollard

2016

Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

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The Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP) recently instituted important changes to formalize recognition of benchmark skills in threat assessment, specifically through the Certified Threat Manager exam first administered in August 2015. Also recently, a group of ATAP members, including members who work and practice in higher education, met to begin looking at threat assessment in education. These developments speak to the growing professionalism and common presence of multidisciplinary threat assessment and management (TAM) teams at institutions of higher education. Members of these teams hail from backgrounds including mental health, law enforcement, campus administration, and the law; each may be unaware of the unique challenges facing their TAM Team colleagues. Representatives from college or university counseling centers in particular, must navigate conflicting pulls between confidentiality and safety. These team members have an ethical obligation to protect the confidentiality of students receiving services at the counseling center, and are also required to protect or warn potential victims when a student poses an imminent risk of violence. Campus mental health providers also grapple with questions regarding mandated counseling, their competence to conduct violence risk assessments, and whether they should be the first point of contact with students of concern. A TAM Team can be most effective in preventing and managing the risk of violence if each member understands and proactively discusses the role of other members. Thus this article explores the role of university counseling centers in the campus threat assessment process.

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Assessing Fit and Dimensionality in Least Squares Metric Multidimensional Scaling Using Akaike’s Information Criterion

Ding

Davison

2009

Educational and Psychological Measurement

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Akaike's information criterion is suggested as a tool for evaluating fit and dimensionality in metric multidimensional scaling that uses least squares methods of estimation. This criterion combines the least squares loss function with the number of estimated parameters. Numerical examples are presented. The results from analyses of both simulation data and real data demonstrate the utility of the Akaike's information criterion in identifying the best approximating models in multidimensional scaling analyses. Keywords MDS, assessing dimensionality, AICIn this article, we develop Akaike's information criterion (AIC) as a tool for assessing model fit in multidimensional scaling (MDS) analyses. In particular, for reasons discussed later we propose the use of a second-order variant of AIC called AIC c for MDS models that employ least squares estimation methods. MDS models have different applications, and they have been used to study things such as the perceptional structure of people (e.g.

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University Employees' Perceptions of University Counseling Center Services and Consultation Activities: A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

Outreach as intervention: The evolution of outreach and preventive programming on college campuses.

Outreach as intervention: The evolution of outreach and preventive programming on college campuses.

University counseling centers’ role in campus threat assessment and management.

Assessing Fit and Dimensionality in Least Squares Metric Multidimensional Scaling Using Akaike’s Information Criterion

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