ABSTRACT
College counseling and mental health centers are specialized oces that provide services within a very specic institutional context (May, 1988). eir purpose is to support their institution’s academic mission by “helping students work through psychological and emotional issues that may aect their academic success and personal development” (Dungy, 2003, p. 345). In exchange for the resources they receive, counseling centers are expected to produce student outcomes that benet the college or university’s eorts to produce successful learners and graduates (Boyd et al., 2003; Schwitzer, 1997). Likewise, college health centers provide public health services, including psychiatry, in the context of the college or university institutional community (Reier, Liptzin, & Fox, 2006). On one hand, much of college counseling work takes the form of one-on-one services for individual students, including individual and group counseling, psychological testing and assessment, and emergency services (Boyd et al., 2003). On the other hand, contemporary college counselors’ roles have expanded to include prevention, psychoeducation, and developmental intervention-as well as consultation
and institutional crisis responses-in which “the entire campus environment” is the client (Archer & Cooper, 1998, p. 8).
