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7/29/2019 An Update to ASG Senate on CAPS
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An Update to ASG:
Counseling and Psychological Services
Dr. John H. Dunkle, Executive Director
January 30, 2013
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Why Health and Wellness?
Wellness must be a prerequisite to all else.
Students cannot be intellectually proficientif they are physically and
psychologically unwell.
~ Ernest Boyer
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Comprehensive Approach To mental
Health Services: Basic Assumptions
Community Issue
Services and programs must be data-driven
Services and programs must be driven by best
practices
Scope of services must be commensurate with
allocated resources
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The JED Foundation/Suicide Prevention Resource Center:
Comprehensive Approach to Suicide Prevention and
Mental Health Promotion
Model forComprehensive
Suicide Preventionand Mental Health
Promotion
IdentifyStudents at
Risk
Increase
Help-seekingBehavior
ProvideMentalHealth
Services
Follow CrisisManagementProcedures
RestrictAccess to
PotentiallyLethal Means
Develop LifeSkills
Promote
SocialNetworks
http://www.jedfoundation.org/professionals/increase-help-seeking-behavior
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Counseling & Psychological Services
Offices in Evanston
and Chicago
Serves
Undergraduate,Graduate, and
Professional Students
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Clinical Unit
Outreach
andEducation
CommunityRelations
TrainingUnit
Counseling & Psychological Services
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Great Plans Already Underway
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CAPS 2010-2017 Strategic Plan: Cultivating Healthy Minds and Balanced Lives:
http://www.northwestern.edu/counseling/media/pdfs/caps10-17.pdf
Campus Coalition on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
CAPS launched Question-Persuade-Refer (QPR) Suicide Prevention Training in March
2012
CAPS will pilot an Emotional Intelligence class in the McCormick School of Engineering
in spring 2013
CAPS welcomed two brand new permanent professional staff members, including a
Case Manager, in summer 2012
Collaboration with the Feinberg School of Medicine
Essential NU on Mental Health in Fall 2013
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*Includes undergraduate, graduate, and professional students
Counseling & Psychological Services
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Provide Mental Health Services: Clinical Trends at CAPS
Since 2009, CAPS has seen a 7% increase in demand for clinical services
CAPS Crisis appointments have increased by 25% since 2009
CAPS also has increased Outreach and Education Services (OES) with the
implementation of QPR and expansion of the Stress Clinic. CAPS has reached 600
community members with QPR and has had an 85% increase in the Stress Clinic in
one year.
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Provide Mental Health Services:
Current Clinical Resources at CAPS
CAPS current staff to student ratio =
1 to 1196
COHFE Peers staff to student ratio =
1 to 940
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*Includes undergraduate, graduate, and professional students
Counseling & Psychological Services
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Provide Mental Health Services:
Student Feedback about CAPS*
Dissatisfaction with being referred off-campus
Dissatisfaction with wait list for assignment to on-going therapy
Dissatisfaction with session limit (12 sessions for academic program)
Dissatisfaction with accessing a therapist quickly.
* Based on CAPS Satisfaction Surveys and COFHE Survey data. Anecdotally, other feedback has emerged inThe Daily and otherpublications, expressing concerns about mental health resources.
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Capacity issue =
Increase
Clinical
Demands
and
Severity
IncreaseOutreach
and
Education
Current CAPS
Resources
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CAPS FY 2014 Budget Request*
Staff Psychologist 1 will also serve as Coordinator of Suicide Prevention Programs (this type of
position exists at several of our peer institutions)
Staff Psychologist 2 will have an expertise in multicultural counseling issues to help address
the specific mental health needs of our students of color and GLBTQ students
Staff psychologist 3 will be a generalist but, preferably, have an expertise in Dialectical
Behavior Therapy (long-term therapy option)
* Increasing the staff by three psychologists will improve CAPS staff to student ratio to 1 to 995.
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CAPS FY 2014 Other Budget Request
Rationale: Peer listening programs are common offerings on campuses to help reach
troubled students and to encourage them to seek professional help. Data from the
Northwestern Suicide Survey revealed that if a student told anyone about being suicidal,
he/she would tell another student/friend. Peer Listening program would be another way to
help increase help-seeking behavior.
Such a program must be run by a mental health professional if it is going to be done
responsibly and ethically. NU Listens was developed by students but is not implemented
because there is not appropriate training and supervision resources.
Based on other model programs, we propose a Staff Psychologist to coordinate the program
and to provide on-going training and supervision. In addition, such a program would require
two graduate assistants to help run the service.
Other costs would include phone lines, office space, and computer hardware and software.
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Future Plans
Continue Campus Coalition on Mental Health
Explore potential for increasing session limits with
commensurate increase in staff
Implement Essential NU
Continue to explore longer-term therapy options,
such as expansion of our group therapy program Explore capacity to add a peer listening program
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