Assessing Campus Counseling Needs

Campus mental health needs are in the spotlight. Whether the nature and severity of problems presenting in college counseling centers are increasing or not, it is important to provide appropriate services for the campus as a whole. By surveying the general campus population, a better basis for determining the needs of students can be established than by surveying self-selected students who present at counseling centers. These data can also be used to establish local norms for comparison to clinical populations.