College Psychiatry as Public Health Psychiatry
CLIFFORD B. REIFLER M.D.1,
MYRON B. LIPTZIN M.D.1, , and
J. THOMAS FOX M.D.1
1 Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, and with the Student Health Service, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. 27514
This ten-year survey of the use of student mental health services offered by the University of North Carolina suggests that increased usage over time has been due to greater availability of staff and a broadening of services offered rather than to an increase of the prevalence of mental illness among the student body. The authors believe that college psychiatry, as one of the earliest examples of the provision of mental health services to a community, can be used as a model for other aspects of public health psychiatry.
