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In addition to building a student center and offering more social activities, the department has recently employed a private psychiatrist, Edward M. Hallowell, clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), to give chemistry graduate students both practical and emotional advice.
"We have opened up confidential channels for any graduate student and post-doc to seek counseling in a private setting, in the conditions they want it, without knowledge getting back to anyone else," said Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry James G. Anderson, chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical...
That has made some of Harvard's mental health resources community nervous.
Charles P. Ducey, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, which provides advice and counseling for undergraduates, said that though the initiative is a creative one, he disagrees with the chemistry department's strategy.
Ducey said that relying on outside sources for mental health help may lead to inequitable treatment of students and an absence of evaluation and quality control.