What is it about?
Initial efforts to address an epidemic often involve only the current tools we have to address the problem. But this is largely ineffective when we don't have a good understanding of the origins of the epidemic. This article seeks to consider origins for the current mental health crisis, or the overwhelming demand for clinical services on college campuses, borrowing concepts we learned from the management of cholera.
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Why is it important?
We must more carefully examine why the mental health crisis is occurring, and why it is occurring in America, rather than reflexively or anxiously respond to it.
Perspectives
To be effective in campus response to mental health service demand, we need to take a step back and look at it as a larger, sociocultural phenomenon.
Dr. Lee Keyes
University of Alabama
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This page is a summary of: The Mental Health Crisis: What Can We Learn from Cholera?, Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, February 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/87568225.2020.1727805.
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