Counseling and Mental Health Services on Campus: A Handbook of Contemporary Practices and Challenges

This timely guide addresses the daunting challenge of meeting theincreasing demand for mental health counseling services withlimited resources. An invaluable resource for counselors andadministrators presenting the most current practices, models, andapproaches for addressing the mental health needs of today'suniversity students. In straightforward and clear language, JamesArcher Jr. and Stewart Cooper demonstrate how to organize,implement, and manage effective counseling, prevention, anddevelopment services on four year college campuses.

Counseling and Mental Health Services on Campus explains how theefficient and effective models of brief therapy and groupcounseling are especially well-suited to the college environmentand demonstrates how university programs can expand counselingservices through the creative use of paraprofessionals, faculty,and staff, professional volunteers, and part-time staff. Archer andCooper offer practical counseling approaches that will meet theneeds of students with specific problems, such as substance abuseand eating disorders, as well as students with developmentalconcerns. The authors also suggest useful techniques and strategiesfor working with a variety of populations such as women, minoritygroups, gay, lesbian, and bisexual students, and adult learners. Aninnovative new approach is described which the authors call theinitiator-catalyst approach and the book's illustrative examplesdemonstrate the application and effectiveness of this important newmodel.