Stressed by increasing student demand for mental health services, campus counseling centers across the country are grappling with how best to deliver ethical, effective, and efficient service. Hampered by limited budgets, most centers find it deeply challenging to address growing college mental health service needs. Yet little conceptual training is provided to student affairs, higher education, health, and mental health professionals who deliver campus mental health services.
Written by a leading provider of college mental health services, Delivering Effective College Mental Health Services is an essential guide to organizing and offering mental health services on university and college campuses.
Lee Keyes is the executive director of the Counseling Center at the University of Alabama. He is a past president of the International Association of Counseling Services, Inc.
"A tremendously useful resource that will help counseling centers make decisions that support a more consistent philosophical model throughout their services."
"This timely and comprehensive resource on college mental health will benefit anyone working in higher education. For those working in college counseling centers, it should be required reading. As an orientation to the field, it includes an overview of who, how, and why college mental health providers do what they do."
"Dr. Keyes provides us with a conceptual framework that allows the examination of campus mental health and developmental services to ensure they address the needs of each particular campus. This is an essential read for college and university administrators, as well as mental health and developmental service providers."