College of the Overwhelmed offers a compelling argument for
strengthening this area of student services despite economic
uncertainty. It provides a detailed view into developmental and
student mental health issues. Its intended audience is parents,
students, counseling center directors and student services
professionals. While it may document what counseling center
directors and student service professionals already know, the
authors skillfully construct an understandable framework for
informing those unfamiliar wi th mental health issues and student
development theory about why the level of psychological problems
among college students has increased so dramatically and what can
be done to add ress the problem. Offering this framework is
important since the general public has become aware of problems
among college students in recent years through highly publicized
cases of college student suicide and the lawsuits that often
follow. Because of these incidents, both parents and students are
demanding that services be increased to meet student needs.
Date
Monday, November 12, 2007
Time
5:00 p.m.
Location
Little Theatre, Queens campus
Speaker
Richard Kadison, M.D.,
Psychiatrist and Chief of Mental Health Services.
Richard Kadison received a B.A. from Brown University; and an
M.D from Loyola University Medical School.
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