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There were 7493 visits to the Psychiatry Department at UHS from July 1971 to March 1972. For the same period of time last year there were 7077 visits, Dr. Preston K. Munter, assistant director of UHS, said yesterday.
Munter, who is one of six full-time UHS staff psychiatrists, said that a steady increase in visits over the past decade was probably due to changes in the way psychiatric services are offered.
Dr. Paul A. Walters, Jr., psychiatrist to UHS, said that the Psychiatry department of UHS has started group therapy on a limited basis. The department has also begun to allow fifth year graduate students in Social Relations with previous clinical training to see patients this year.
These two innovations might be responsible for increased use of the UHS facilities, Walters added.
"Instead of going all the way to UHS with a cold, just to be told to drink liquids and take aspirin, they could find out that's really all that can be done, from a student in the house," McKenna explained.