Kristen McClary Source 5

Step 1 

A)  AIarovici, Doris. Mental Health Issues And The University Student. [Electronic Resource]. n.p.: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]., 2014. MERLIN. Web. 13 Oct. 2016. 

B) What do wellness programs reveal about institutional efforts to address issues of student mental health and what are the contours of the relation between wellness programs and student mental health? 

C Before: Once again I decided to stick with the previous question. I picked to stay with this question because it leaves a lot of room for me to talk about different things within my topic, but it was still narrower than my original question. Also, I picked to use source 5 which is entitled, Mental Health Issues and The University Student, and I read the chapter called The Psychiatrist’s Role in College Mental Health. I picked to read this book and section because I thought it would relate well with my question, and it would give me a psychiatrist’s view one programs provided by Universities, rather than an outside prospective of these programs. 

During: While reading this source it felt to me like the psychologist almost blame it on the students for the lack of help. For Example, the psychologist said they proscribed medication for the students, but the students didn’t want to take them. So, in return the psychologists said they couldn’t help the students any farther. To me, I feel like a psychologist could help a student out in many ways other than prescribing medications. Also, when reading this, the lack of help given to students was also blamed on the shortage of psychologist on some campuses.  

After: When I finished reading source 5 I thought that the psychologist who wrote this was almost blaming every outside source for not helping with the issues, rather than the psychologists being part of the problem. They kept blaming the lack of help on the students, the parents, and the universities.  

Step 2 

 This source stated that the psychologist put blame on both the students and the amount of psychologist on campus, for the lack of help. First, they said some students were frightened or nervous to go to an on campus psychologist. Causing the students to refuse to go and get the help they needed. However, the students that weren’t nervous sometimes turned down the help/medication because they personally thought they didn’t want the medications to drown their judgement or their parents didn’t approve of the medication. Lastly, this source pointed out that multiple on campus wellness programs aren’t able to help all of the student’s population because they are short staffed. So, they tend to refer some students to outside sources.  

Source 5 gave me a new perspective on the way college wellness programs help students mental health. The main difference was the fact that it was written from a psychologist’s point of view. I was different because that the blame was more on the students for the lack of help with their mental health.  The source stated that the students wouldn’t always take the advised provisions given to them.  

However, source 5 lined up with source 2,3, and 4 because they all pointed out in some way that these wellness programs at universities don’t have enough staff. Meaning the there is a bad ratio between the amount of psychologists there are and students that need help.  Therefore, many students need to find outside resources to find help because they don’t have the unlimited access they need to get help.  

This source reassured me that universities don’t give students the mental help they need. But, how much mental help should a university be expected to provide? Or is it upon the students to get their own help outside of the university? However, with the amount of tuition students pay every year, shouldn’t their mental health needs be taken care of?