scholarly journals Analysis of Demand Changes in a University Counseling Center Telehealth System

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Orlovic ◽  
Michelle Alvarado ◽  
Sara Nash ◽  
Alvin Lawrence ◽  
Ernesto Escoto
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Timely Manner ◽  
University Counseling Center ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
University Counseling ◽  
Wellness Center ◽  
Demand Changes ◽  
Demand Patterns ◽  
The University

The Counseling and Wellness Center (CWC) offers various types of mental health appointments for students at the University of Florida. The CWC is implementing a new walk-in system for student appointments to increase the timeliness and accessibility of first appointments. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CWC shifted to offer telehealth appointments, primarily through Zoom. The research objective is to conduct a data analysis of historical appointment data before the shift to telehealth and after the shift to telehealth to understand how appointment demand changed during the pandemic. The data analysis breaks down the data by appointment type, weekday, and time of day. This project collaborates with staff at the Counseling and Wellness Center and has the goal of helping the CWC better understand demand patterns, so they can better anticipate appointment demand and serve the UF student population in a timely manner.

scholarly journals Testing the Impact of Brief Counseling on Non-Urgent Client Self-Esteem, Social Connectedness, Recommending Their University and Active Alumnus Intent

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Gary Blau ◽  
John DiMino ◽  
Allyce Barron ◽  
Kathleen Davis ◽  
Kelly Grace ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Control Group ◽  
University Counseling Center ◽  
University Counseling ◽  
Brief Counseling ◽  
Median Period ◽  
Business Undergraduates ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study was to test brief counseling impact on four outcomes. Two outcomes, self-esteem and social connectedness, were more typical for a University Counseling Center (UCC) to address. However, two other outcomes were more related to a university’s academic mission, i.e., recommending the university and active alumnus intent. Using a longitudinal sample of 60 matched non-urgent undergraduate clients at a UCC, brief counseling increased all four outcomes: social connectedness, self-esteem, recommending the university, and active alumnus intent. For this study, brief counseling was defined as a median of three counseling sessions after intake (range 1 to 8) over a median period of six weeks (range 4 to 10 weeks). In addition, these scale means were compared to a control group of business undergraduates not in counseling. The counseled sample at Time 2 compared favorably to the non-counseled sample on recommending the university and active alumnus intent. To better support its students’ success and university enrollments, UCCs need to consider new avenues to promote their advocacy by gathering data more directly connected to a university’s mission.

Finding One’s Voice: Recovering from Trauma

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
SuEllen Hamkins
Keyword(s):  
Medical Record ◽  
Counseling Center ◽  
African Woman ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
University Counseling Center ◽  
Waiting Room ◽  
University Counseling ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalizations ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University

Vivian Owusu, a stunning twenty-one-year-old African woman who grew up in Ghana, was about to walk out of the university counseling center when I went to the waiting room to get her for our initial appointment. Her first psychiatric provider had retired a year after meeting her and her next one took a different job six months later, so I was her third psychiatrist in less than a year. Vivian had not shown for her first two appointments with me and now, due to a double-booking error that was my fault, I was thirty minutes late. I apologized and asked if she had time to stay and meet with me. I could see her anger and agitation. “I suppose.” Irritated but still poised, Vivian followed me down the hall to my office. What an unfortunate beginning, I thought, feeling harried. We had been short-staff ed for months and I had been squeezing patients in as best I could, feeling like I wasn’t doing my best work. Vivian settled herself upright on my couch and looked at me coolly. She had big dark eyes, flawless brown skin, beautifully braided hair, a button nose, and a hostile expression. In response to my questions, she told me she was a junior, pre-law. She hadn’t slept for three or four days. Depression had been plaguing her and she had been having thoughts of killing herself. Her expression of hostility briefly showed a trace of sadness. “I don’t trust people,” she said. “I take things personally and I get annoyed.” She often felt emotionally volatile and easily got upset with people if she felt they were rejecting her. I had skimmed her medical record prior to the appointment and saw that she had had multiple emergency contacts with our clinicians and two psychiatric hospitalizations, the second five months earlier. She said she wasn’t having suicidal thoughts currently and would call us if she did. What she wanted from me was a refill of medicines she was taking to help with the depression and anxiety.

scholarly journals Accelerate Scientific Deep Learning Models on Heterogeneous Computing Platform with FPGA

2020 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 09014
Author(s):  
Chao Jiang ◽  
David Ojika ◽  
Sofia Vallecorsa ◽  
Thorsten Kurth ◽  
Prabhat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Heterogeneous Computing ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Computing Platform ◽  
Scientific Data Analysis ◽  
The University ◽  
Heterogeneous Computing Platform

AI and deep learning are experiencing explosive growth in almost every domain involving analysis of big data. Deep learning using Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has shown great promise for such scientific data analysis applications. However, traditional CPU-based sequential computing without special instructions can no longer meet the requirements of mission-critical applications, which are compute-intensive and require low latency and high throughput. Heterogeneous computing (HGC), with CPUs integrated with GPUs, FPGAs, and other science-targeted accelerators, offers unique capabilities to accelerate DNNs. Collaborating researchers at SHREC1at the University of Florida, CERN Openlab, NERSC2at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Dell EMC, and Intel are studying the application of heterogeneous computing (HGC) to scientific problems using DNN models. This paper focuses on the use of FPGAs to accelerate the inferencing stage of the HGC workflow. We present case studies and results in inferencing state-of-the-art DNN models for scientific data analysis, using Intel distribution of OpenVINO, running on an Intel Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) equipped with an Arria 10 GX FPGA. Using the Intel Deep Learning Acceleration (DLA) development suite to optimize existing FPGA primitives and develop new ones, we were able accelerate the scientific DNN models under study with a speedup from 2.46x to 9.59x for a single Arria 10 FPGA against a single core (single thread) of a server-class Skylake CPU.

Stress related disorders in students under the terrorist act

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1589-1589
Author(s):  
M.A. Kulygina ◽  
M.V. Semiglazova
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Disturbances ◽  
Past History ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
University Counseling Center ◽  
University Counseling ◽  
Stress Vulnerability ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Interventions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

AimTo investigate clinical manifestations and stress reaction's dynamics in students after the terrorist attack in Moscow metro in March 2010.Methods14 cases were observed at the University counseling center (UCC) by a psychiatrist and a psychologist during 2 months after the attack. Respondents were aged 16–20 years and 9 of them were female. Complex clinical psychopathological and psychological examination was used. Psychotherapeutic interventions and medication were applied in all samples.ResultsPrevailing number of students (11, that is 78,6%) appealed for care by themselves or by reference of relatives, University staff and physicians. Another part of students - 3(21, 4%) - visited UCC during the month. Acute state of somatic and mental discomfort, anxiety, fears, obsessive reminiscence of tragic pictures were the reasons for reference to a caregiver. Sleep disturbances were the key symptom (in all the cases), somatovegetative equivalents of anxiety which were more intensive inside the metro were registered in 11 (78,6%) cases, and withdrawal behavior - in 8 (57,1%) cases. Premorbid mood fluctuations and anxiety traits were elicited in past history of the patients. State enhancement in the most of students - 10 (71,4%) - was observed in a week.ConclusionSomatic component of anxiety and its eventual context masked a personality reaction type of the students and their values and meanings reappraisal under stress conditions. Predisposition for stress reaction was connected with personal stress vulnerability and mood fluctuations’ propensity. Positive dynamics was accompanied by the brief staged psychotherapy in conjunction with general medication.

Need for Establishing Desensitization Programs on University Campuses

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 885-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry J. Oles ◽  
Vernon G. Zunker
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Counseling Center ◽  
University Counseling Center ◽  
University Counseling ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
The University

The level of self-perceived anxiety in 434 college students and their interest in formally dealing with their anxiety problems was assessed prior to establishing group-desensitization programs through the University counseling center. Various sources of anxiety were identified and group desensitization programs were successfully initiated.

Counseling Center Psychologists in Neuropsychology

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur D. Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Treatment Planning ◽  
Counseling Center ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
University Counseling Center ◽  
University Counseling ◽  
The University ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

Increasingly, students with cerebral dysfunctions are entering colleges and universities and demanding counseling and psychological services. Yet the provision of quality assessment; treatment planning, and counseling for this population requires training and experience in areas that extend beyond those of most counseling center professionals. As a result, the need for counseling psychologists with expertise in assisting these students has never been so apparent as it is presently. This article explores this dilemma, and presents a rationale for the development of a new area of subspecialization -counseling neuropsychology -as a mechanism for enhanced service delivery, particularly within the university counseling center.

The university counseling center as a community psychological center

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan M. Leventhal ◽  
Craig E. Messersmith ◽  
Barbara N. Mullens ◽  
Alan L. Berman ◽  
Barry W. McCarthy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Center ◽  
University Counseling Center ◽  
University Counseling ◽  
The University
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