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The Crimson’s six-month investigation into mental health at Harvard has found that UHS is coping with rising costs and increased demand for treatment by shuffling students through a confusing system of multiple clinicians and then nudging them out to stay under budget.
In a letter to administrators last year, Elizabeth J. Quinn ’04 described a friend who, after being placed in a psychiatric hospital following a manic episode, got medication from a UHS psychiatrist weekly for three months without getting any therapy.
“That UHS psychiatrists could, one week, determine that this student was dangerously incapable of caring for herself and, the next week, think she was capable of independently organizing her own elaborate treatment program while adjusting dosages of sometimes-debilitating psycho-pharmaceuticals and taking four classes is simply...
UHS Mental Health Services Director Dr. Richard D. Kadison simply says that split care is the system that best allows UHS to meet the needs of students. But other mental health experts say its roots are economic.
But students who have sought help at UHS say coordination is often left up to patients, leaving students struggling with weighty problems to carry yet another burden.