Building Bridges. Mental Health on Campus: Student Mental Health Leaders and College Administrators, Counselors, and Faculty in Dialogue.

摘要

Since 1997, the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), has sponsored a series of participatory dialogues that offer mental health consumers and representatives from other groups an opportunity to enhance communication and build partnerships to improve mental health services and promote recovery. These meetings have led to concrete outcomes, including advances in networking, training and technical assistance, and valuable recommendations for CMHS and the field. Student mental health consumer leaders on college and university campuses met in December 2005 with representatives from a variety of sectors of the college mental health system, including researchers, clinicians, college administrators and counselors, and leaders of national and local organizations that address student mental health issues. The Mental Health on Campus dialogue meeting provided an opportunity for student mental health consumers and college representatives to discuss openly attitudes and practices that either hinder or promote recovery. Meeting participants identified attitudinal, cultural, and systemic barriers to mental health, and developed a set of recommendations to overcome them.