CME:1 CNE:1 PsyCE:1 NBCC:1 NASW:1 CPEU:1
Leadership
After this session, attendees should be able to:
- Describe perceptions and suppositions about the nature of student caseloads in terms of diagnostic severity, complexity, disruptiveness, treatment needs, and other aspects of client-patient demand.
- Differentiate empirical study results that compare increased student complexity, disruptiveness, and treatment demand vs. acuity.
- Discuss evidence-based conclusions to inform practices on home campuses.
Program Abstract:
Millions of students visit counseling or health centers for mental-health concerns annually. Many require counseling to succeed. Still, debate continues about whether students’ concerns have become more severe. While staff-perception studies suggest an “overwhelming consensus” that client-patient presentations have grown more severe, studies using clinical evidence contradict this. This question is critical to strategic-planning. This program reviews the debate – then presents brand-new empirical evidence suggesting steady severity levels but increased problem complexity, disruptiveness, and treatment-demand.