Online Learning Update

December 18, 2019

Why colleges are looking online for mental health care

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

By Wayne D’Orio, Education Dive

Visits to campus counseling centers climbed 30% to 40% between the fall of 2009 and the spring of 2015, according to the Center for Collegiate Mental Health. Enrollment, meanwhile, grew just 5% during that time. That has helped push the ratio of counselors to students to around 740:1 at the smallest schools and 2,000:1 at larger colleges, according to a survey of more than 570 institutions by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD).  And it has contributed to a bottleneck in access to critical mental health care that has campus health officials scrambling for ways to keep waitlists in check. For help, some are turning to telehealth services, which provide care through digital mediums such as text messages, phone calls and video chats.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/why-colleges-are-looking-online-for-mental-health-care/568294/

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