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An Inclusive Approach to Increasing Access to Student Mental Health Services

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Without a doubt, mental health treatment and counseling must be done by professionals. At Montgomery County Community College (MCCC), we take a slightly different approach to supporting the mental health of our students, centering around facilitating access and removing barriers to care. campus is much more than a counseling center.

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Where is the Love? Compassionate Pedagogy is Needed Now More Than Ever Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To implement a sense of compassion, educators must be committed to a flexible process facilitated through positive communication and transparency. Moreover, school counselors are positioned to facilitate individual and group counseling to assist with study skills, stress, anxiety, and social-emotional learning development.

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New Jersey's Free Teletherapy Program Delivers 78,000 Mental Health Sessions to College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bridges New Jersey's groundbreaking state-funded teletherapy program has delivered more than 78,000 counseling sessions to college students since its 2023 launch, according to new data released by the New Jersey Office of the Secretary of Higher Education.

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Leading From the Intersection

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Im accountable for facilitating access to quality, culturally relevant instruction and services designed to prepare students for fulfilling careers and to help empower lives of civic engagement. For example, what happens when one communitys priorities conflict with anothers or when a decision makes a claim to me but not to the whole me?

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Ohio State, Uwill Partner to Provide Teletherapy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As such, Ohio State is collaborating with mental health and wellness solution Uwill , whose proprietary technology enables students to facilitate appointments with licensed mental health counselors based on their needs and preferences.

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Supporting Counselor Trainees and Practitioners in the Wake of Racial Trauma

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In counseling, racial trauma shapes not only the emotional lives of clients but also the clinical and personal responses of counselors. The emotional labor of racial trauma in counseling CACREP (Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs) sets national standards for counseling training across the U.S.

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Active Minds’ 2023 Emerging Scholars Break Down Mental Health Barriers

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Active Minds is excited to empower our scholars and see how their projects facilitate change and pave the way towards a more inclusive, just society. Baker is a doctoral student in counseling psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Maico Demi B. Baker Brianna A.