Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-16 | Page 10 | Mental Hygiene Program Proves Helpful to College Students

1 I Mental H Hygiene DAILY HEALTH HETH Program SERVICE Proves Prove 4 i iI I I Helpful to College Students St dents I 4 S By DR MORis FISI FISHBEIN Editor Journal Jo of the American Medical AU Association and of H Hy Hy- o gels ia the Health Magazine Mental hygiene h e ork among college college college col col- lege an Interesting new development described b by Dr Winifred Wintfred Winifred Wini Wint- fred Richmond of or Washington D.C. D. D D.C. C. C C. C at at a a re recent nt meeting of oC the American American American Amer Amer- ican Medical aSs association s aton The hc mental hygiene movement m has has' grown out of ot the test testing g nie method used used In ht no nolie lie itlie army rm during the World war var As the enormous s Increase in i students after fer the war brought problems that hadnot hadnot had hadnot not existed before colleges ol leg s began to find that mental te tests testa t and rating cales ale were Swore useful In advising students stu stu- stu dents ab about ut n and their vocational vo al adjustment anc The departments H handling this personnel research uncovered man many r lu they they- thc had h la not anticipated and nd the psychiatrist cba cane came r Ito pictured Dartmouth y Vas Vas- Va- Va t. t and California am 1 were r among tha m thC first nr t tO ps psychiatrists hl tl b but l f b by 19 the had progressed I I lib o rapidly r p dl that at at th N Nw V England J conference mental on hygiene In S i. i f 2 f l n. n 1 i l' l Aj j i. l II I t I J r hY h J. J n. n v schools hooi colleges held in Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton in the the- spring of or o l than thin twenty colleges college's nd schools schools' p psychiatric ch services services Ien ices were wele represented lu Ill 11 tho fiVe fhe since lice the work began at al Vassar girls girls' and nd six teachers have been referred to the thep gIrls gIrls' were p psychiatrist four Forty-four girls were ere found to be be- suffering ng from froni severe sevro disturbances 13 13 were quite qute ill fit Ii with real depressions four had four had defInite definite def def- mite Bul suicidal tendencies te es and a few evl minor difficulties that tat might have le led to serious trouble if it t they tey had hadnot hadnot not hot been taken taken taken- In Ia time The rho he that beset college collese college col col- col- col lege lese students aro are practically thes the's the s 's Emot Emotional nal malad- malad s 8 difficulties J J actual J-actual mental mental and and nd nervous illness and and xa- xa ya-i ya 19 pt pf disciplinary problems m mare are he principal troubles found bytho bytho bythe by tho the ps psychiatrists College suicides suicide of o so mUch ha has beet heard Iii ent y ars may may- bo traced t. t depressions re suiting from iIi anxiety Sul- Sul trends discovered red hi hf tIme put the h e. e psychiatrist on tho the c ciul l d viva e an and J S 'S r A S' S l t rI t I i k 1 he ma may be bo ablo able tor to avert lu erf a a. tr tragedy 1 g r Perhaps th the greatest hindrance nce to the development of a 8 mental y l gleno gleno program has be been n nt t a Hostile attitude on n tim the part D p part rt of ot A faculty a u tt mem members members mem mem- b bers r 1 oC oleg o oa a huni- huni her of ot colleges questioned ed by Dr Dt Richmond The t tc d meil meat must sell s l 1 a to fo b bolli lh fanity fal- fal a ul and ant students pt ris i s been cn ablo to do doso ec B liC successfully that inthe in tho the I t ul n where the he u- u department Ius hus been een tri een longest eKl d. d the has Jac lh a almost invariably become become- lm and nd st I cooperative I r J r L- L i n t 1 t