An Astonishing Statistic

BY HANK REICHMAN On February 27, the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gazette, published an article, “Iowa universities face rising mental health needs.”  In that article, which reports a significant increase in the number of students seeking mental health assistance at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa, we read the…

Could a Counselor Have Prevented This Student’s Suicide?

BY HANK REICHMAN The following is from the Tampa Bay Times: The only mental health counselor at Florida Polytechnic University got laid off in June. She suspects she was too loud about the ways the troubled university was, in her eyes, failing its students. Her departure left some 1,400 of them with no on-campus counselor.…