- University of California psychological counseling centers served 33,164 patients in the 2014-2015 fiscal year. Of those patients, 6,228 were at UCLA.
- About 5 percent of all UC students were seen for either crisis, urgent or triage same-day appointments between July 1, 2014 and Feb. 28, 2015.
- In 2014, 23 percent more students used UCLA’s Counseling and Psychological Services than in the year before.
- It would cost the UC $17,441,474 annually to support the University’s needed number of mental health professionals, almost a million dollars over the counseling centers’ revenue.
- Twenty-five percent of students who use psychological counseling centers across the UC are already prescribed psychotropic methods at the time of their access.
Compiled by Catherine Liberty Feliciano, Bruin senior staff.
SOURCE: UC Regents Committee on Health Services.
Increasing psych counselling, psychotropic methods, and psych expense, are a bad sign for how students of the UC are growing up.
On the contrary. It’s the most wonderful and useful resource a university can provide. It strengthens students for the rest of their life.