Mental Health Care in the College Community (eBook)

Dr. Kay is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has served as the chair of the APA Committee on Medical Student Education, the Council on Medical Education and Career Development, the Vestermark Award Board, and the Committee on the Practice of Psychotherapy. He chairs the World Psychiatric Association Task Force on Undergraduate and Post Graduate Curriculum as well as the APA Committee on College Mental Health. Dr. Kay is the immediate past chair of the Psychiatry Residency Review Committee of the ACGME and the Founding Editor of the Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research and Associate Editor of the American Journal of Psychotherapy. He has published extensively on the topics of medical and psychiatric education, medical ethics, child psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, the neurobiology of psychotherapy, and psychosocial aspects of AIDS and of cardiac transplantation, and has edited numerous books. Dr. Kay serves as the Associate Director of the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center at Wright State University. He received the 2001 APA Seymour Vestermark Award for contributions to psychiatric education. Dr. Kay's current research examines fMRI in borderline personality disordered patients with self-harm behavior. Dr. Victor Schwartz is currently university dean of students at Yeshiva University and associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Yeshiva's Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He established and was director of the Counseling Center at Yeshiva. Previously Dr. Schwartz was for many years the medical director and chief psychiatrist at the University Counseling Service at New York University. He has also served as assistant director of residency training in psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. He is a Distinguished Fellow, an original member of the Presidential Task Force on College Mental Health and a member of the Committee on College Mental Health, and co-chair of the working group on law and college mental health all of the American Psychiatric Association. He is also a co-chair of the Committee on the College Student of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. He has written and lectured extensively on college mental health; particularly around the areas of the intersection of law, administration and college mental health, the management of mental health crises in colleges, psychiatric residency training in college mental health services and psychopharmacology practice in college mental health.

"I would encourage any individual working at the college or university level that comes into contact with students to read Mental Health Care in the College Community" (Synergy, NASPA Newsletter, February 2011)

"I read this text with the same mantra running through my mind: "This book IS good for me, despite my reaction to its psychiatric lens." Indeed, this book is very, very good. There is a tremendous amount of information culled from a variety of sources (bear in mind that articles in this field are published in many different journals), and this information is seasoned well with the authors' clinical and administrative experiences ... offers a smorgasbord of pertinent, informed, and thoughtful chapters on working in the college setting." (Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2011)

"Mental Health Care in the College Community provides an enormous amount of valuable information on a number of diverse topics pertaining to the campus setting. Working with parents, different model of care, suicide prevention, training programs, and working with special populations are just a few..." (American Journal of Psychiatry, 2011)

"This thorough review and discussion of intervention studies could be helpful to student affairs departments (e.g., residential living, judicial affairs) in making decisions about which approach best fits their campus." (PsycCRITIQUES, November 2010)

"... A guide to help administrators in higher education navigate these complexities and provide quality mental health services to students has long been needed. Mental Health Care in the College Community fills this need. With chapters covering nearly every aspect of mental health care in higher education and written by experts in the field, the text provides administrators with a broad view of what must be considered if an institution is to provide quality mental health care to students." (MIWatch.org, 2010)

"... Mental Health Care in the College Community is an excellent overview of the key aspects of college mental health services provision. It will be of great help to administrators as they evaluate their existing mental health services or plan for their improvement and expansion ." (MIWatch.org, 2010)

"I would like to thank you and Dr. Schwartz for your excellent work on your book "Mental Health Care in the College Community." I am a psychologist who has held leadership roles in community mental health centers and hospitals for 20 years... Finding your book was a godsend in quickly bringing me up to speed on the issues...I look forward to joining the ranks of college counseling directors and furthering the development of this important field." (Gary Dunn, 2011)