Counselling & Psychotherapy

This review of reviews commissioned and funded by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing explored what is known about effective ways to improve student mental health and wellbeing. Through a synthesis of 23 review studies from across the world, this review identifies a variety of interventions for student mental health and wellbeing and outlines strengths, limitations, gaps and opportunities to improve the quality of their evidence.

This presentation discusses 10 case studies of faculty-embedded counselling models from British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador, and the drivers for the embedded counselling model of service delivery,  successes, challenges, and lessons learned.

Since August 2015, Western University has been implementing a Walk-in Single Session Therapy Program as part of its diverse range of services. In this session, participants learned about the range of factors that have contributed to the success of the programme: 1) Changing the triage model, 2) Providing training to staff, and 3) Emphasizing students existing strengths, abilities, and values.

College Counseling from a Distance: Deciding Whether and When to Engage in Telemental Health (TMH) Services is a guide developed by the Higher Education
Mental Health Alliance (HEMHA), with the purpose of outlining the potential benefits, limitations, and concerns regarding telemental health (TMH) services in the field of college student mental health and aid mental health professionals who serve college students and Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) administrators in engaging in dialogue about these benefits, limitations, and concerns in order to make informed decisions about whether to engage in providing TMH services.