Mental Health Care in the College Community - by Jerald Kay & Victor Schwartz (Paperback)

From the Back Cover

Mental health concerns are the most serious and prevalent health problems among students in higher education. Increasingly effective psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments have facilitated matriculation for students with histories of anxiety, mood, personality, eating and substance abuse disorders. This phenomenon has been accompanied by a striking increase in the number of previously undiagnosed students requesting treatment. College and university mental health programs struggle to care for larger numbers of students, necessitating greater interdisciplinary collaboration in treatment, research, outreach, and educational services.

This book fills an important gap in the literature and provides a comprehensive resource for nearly every aspect of college mental health. It includes a strong emphasis on the training and education of graduate and professional students for future work in this field. Chapters are devoted to the significant ethical and legal issues related to treatment and associated administrative and policy challenges. Scholarly chapters on the promise of community mental health and public health approaches are especially innovative. There is also a chapter on international issues in college mental health which will be helpful to those students studying abroad. Mental Health Care in the College Community is written by acknowledged experts from mental health, college and university administration, legal and educational disciplines, all with extensive administrative and clinical experience in higher education settings. This book is clearly written and well illustrated with abundant tables, charts, and figures.

This text will become essential reading for college mental health clinicians, graduate students in the mental health disciplines (psychiatry, psychology, counselling, nursing, and social work), student affairs deans and their staff, and even presidents or provosts of universities and colleges.

Review Quotes

"Mental Health Care in the College Community is a beautifully organized resource that is encyclopedic in its scope and detail. It offers administrators the why and how-to of creating state-of-the-art services that include crisis intervention, triage, psychotherapy, medication consultation, testing, referral, outreach, working with parents, and training psychiatry residents and psychology and social work interns. The authors are attuned to the specific needs of the college environment, among the most pressing of which is timeliness." (Psychiatric Services, American Psychiatric Association, August 2011)

"What makes the volume cohesive is the prominence given to the application of the community mental health and public health models to mental health promotion and care on college campuses." (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, March 2012)

"Kay and Schwartz's text breaks new ground in the attempt to assemble a comprehensive, yet compact resource for college mental health clinicians and health services administrators. I expect that we will hear further from this cohort of clinical innovators" (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, December 2011)

"This book should be on the shelf of every clinician and administrator working in or with a college or university health clinic. Clinicians and trainees in departments of psychiatry, social work, psychology, and nursing would be well advised to read this book from cover to cover" (Michelle Riba, Psychiatry: Interpersonal Biological Processes October 2011)

"I would encourage any individual working at the college or university level that comes into contact with students to read Mental Health Care in the College Community" (Synergy, NASPA Newsletter, February 2011)

"I read this text with the same mantra running through my mind: "This book IS good for me, despite my reaction to its psychiatric lens." Indeed, this book is very, very good. There is a tremendous amount of information culled from a variety of sources (bear in mind that articles in this field are published in many different journals), and this information is seasoned well with the authors' clinical and administrative experiences ... offers a smorgasbord of pertinent, informed, and thoughtful chapters on working in the college setting." (Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2011)

"Mental Health Care in the College Community provides an enormous amount of valuable information on a number of diverse topics pertaining to the campus setting. Working with parents, different model of care, suicide prevention, training programs, and working with special populations are just a few..." (American Journal of Psychiatry, 2011)

"This thorough review and discussion of intervention studies could be helpful to student affairs departments (e.g., residential living, judicial affairs) in making decisions about which approach best fits their campus." (PsycCRITIQUES, November 2010)

"... Mental Health Care in the College Community is an excellent overview of the key aspects of college mental health services provision. It will be of great help to administrators as they evaluate their existing mental health services or plan for their improvement and expansion." (MIWatch.org, 2010)

"I would like to thank you and Dr. Schwartz for your excellent work on your book Mental Health Care in the College Community. I am a psychologist who has held leadership roles in community mental health centers and hospitals for 20 years.... Finding your book was a godsend in quickly bringing me up to speed on the issues.... I look forward to joining the ranks of college counseling directors and furthering the development of this important field." (Gary Dunn, 2011)

"Mental Health Care in the College Community will be of interest to counselling centre clinicians and also to postgraduate students as they work to understand how students' mental health impacts the university community" (Early Interventions in Psychiatry, 2011)

"For readers unfamiliar with mental health care at higher education institutions, the book is an effective guide to better understanding how counselling services are provided in these settings. The book may also serve as a textbook in graduate counseling and higher education courses that examine the delivery of counselling services at various colleges and universities" (Community College Review, November 2011)

About the Author

Dr. Kay is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has served as the chair of the APA Committee on Medical Student Education, the Council on Medical Education and Career Development, the Vestermark Award Board, and the Committee on the Practice of Psychotherapy. He chairs the World Psychiatric Association Task Force on Undergraduate and Post Graduate Curriculum as well as the APA Committee on College Mental Health. Dr. Kay is the immediate past chair of the Psychiatry Residency Review Committee of the ACGME and the Founding Editor of the Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research and Associate Editor of the American Journal of Psychotherapy. He has published extensively on the topics of medical and psychiatric education, medical ethics, child psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, the neurobiology of psychotherapy, and psychosocial aspects of AIDS and of cardiac transplantation, and has edited numerous books. Dr. Kay serves as the Associate Director of the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center at Wright State University. He received the 2001 APA Seymour Vestermark Award for contributions to psychiatric education. Dr. Kay's current research examines fMRI in borderline personality disordered patients with self-harm behavior.

Dr. Victor Schwartz is currently university dean of students at Yeshiva University and associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Yeshiva's Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He established and was director of the Counseling Center at Yeshiva. Previously Dr. Schwartz was for many years the medical director and chief psychiatrist at the University Counseling Service at New York University. He has also served as assistant director of residency training in psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. He is a Distinguished Fellow, an original member of the Presidential Task Force on College Mental Health and a member of the Committee on College Mental Health, and co-chair of the working group on law and college mental health all of the American Psychiatric Association. He is also a co-chair of the Committee on the College Student of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. He has written and lectured extensively on college mental health; particularly around the areas of the intersection of law, administration and college mental health, the management of mental health crises in colleges, psychiatric residency training in college mental health services and psychopharmacology practice in college mental health.