UM: Mental Health

National Public Radio reports on how colleges deal with students’ mental health problems, and interviews Daphne C. Watkins, a researcher at UM’s School of Social Work, who’s been studying the issue: “First, there are increasing numbers of students with increasingly severe emotional problems. Second, students — and the families of these students — look primarily to colleges and universities to provide mental health and other supportive services for their students. And finally, budgetary cutbacks at these institutions make the growth and advancement of campus mental health services very difficult.” [Source]