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By Buck Taylor
Clinic addresses mental health needs
Although the stressful lives of students often produce a variety of problems during the semester, there is a place on campus where they can turn for help.
Kansan staff writer
Watkins Memorial Health Center provides a mental health clinic that offers students confidential, professional therapy to help work out their problems, said Sandra Wolf, one of clinical social workers in the clinic.
"The clinic provides an opportunity to discuss, in a neutral environment, any kind of difficulty that an individual might have and would like to soct through," she said.
The mental health clinic treats problems ranging from eating disorders to social relationships and also stress problems, problems, stress and sexual disorders
Wolf said that although students had the same problems as the general population, the pressures and stresses placed on students were different.
"The way the student population operates is unique to other mental health populations," she said. "At the beginning of the semester things
begin a little slowly, but by midterms and finals, we tend to get busy."
The mental health staff treats students who seek help on their own and students referred to the clinic by other sources. Robert Turvey, associate director of the student assistance center, said his office referred a small number of students to the Watkins clinic.
"We refer students with long-term emotional or stressful situations in their lives," he said. "They want what they perceive as very high quality services, and Watkins provides these."
Turvey said some students were referred to the mental health clinic because Watkins had the only psychiatrist on campus. Others just need help coping with the problems associated with being students.
"The needs are greater on campus now. Students are under terrible pressure," he said. "New students especially are making dramatic changes in their lives."
Although the clinic generates a new patient base each semester, some students continued to follow up with the staff during their years at
KU. Wolf said.
"While they're here, they see us as their resource if they want to talk about what's going on in their lives," she said. "Whether it's a crisis or just a positive situation, sometimes they need just a place they can focus exclusively on themselves."
The first visit to the clinic is prepaid by the student health fee. Students are charged for each subsequent visit. The second, third and fourth visits cost $10; additional appointments are $20.
Treatment services available at the clinic include psychotherapy, crisis intervention, marital therapy and private consultations. The staff also works closely with other University services, such as the residence hall system, to monitor students with potential emotional problems, Wolf said.
She encouraged students to consider seeing a therapist if they had feelings or thoughts that interfered with school or were causing problems in their personal lives.
The mental health clinic is open between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.