Center for Collegiate Mental Health (CCMH) at Penn State

CCMH just released new findings that examined changes in religious discrimination after the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on 10/7/2023. This investigation was deemed critical given the heightened anti-Muslim and antisemitic climates on campuses. Prior to 10/7/2023, students who identify as Jewish and Muslim reported the highest rates of religious discrimination compared to the other identities, and this disparity significantly increased after 10/7/2023. In fact, after 10/7/2023, the percentage of Jewish students reporting religious discrimination more than doubled, and the percentage of Muslim students increased 6%. Check out the full findings and implications in the blog post: https://lnkd.in/exZMYjp7

It's been a great, energizing week in Phoenix at the 75th Annual AUCCCD Conference for the Center for Collegiate Mental Health (CCMH) at Penn State team! Another impactful CCMH presentation in the books and so lovely to connect with our partners and members supporting the mission of college student mental health. As a remote staff scattered around the country, it's good to be together! Tyler White Rebecca Janis

The Center for Collegiate Mental Health (CCMH) at Penn State has posted a new blog post about the mental health of first-generation college students who have visited counseling centers. The post compares first-generation students to continuing-generation students by demographic variables, treatment histories, presenting concerns, and mental health symptoms. The post is available here: https://lnkd.in/gtheeHue #mentalhealth #firstgeneration #highered #students

Woo hoo! Our integration with the Center for Collegiate Mental Health (CCMH) at Penn State Standard Data Set is officially live! 😎🎉 Medicat One users can easily incorporate these standardized questions into student forms, allowing for more efficient data collection and improved clinical practices. We're excited to offer this feature to our clients, continuously empowering college counselors to better serve their students' mental health needs. Learn more about the integration and how you can leverage it in your clinic: https://hubs.li/Q02HtpZN0 #MentalHealth #CollegeCounseling #CCMH

"Institutions have several tools they can use to comply with the requirement to provide annual mental health screenings. One of the more affordable options is the CCAPS-Screen, a tool from Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Collegiate Mental Health. The CCAPS-Screen evaluates the eight most prevalent psychological problems among college students and student-athletes. The tool is validated and addresses all NCAA requirements and recommendations." Brief ✅ Affordable ✅ The only screening tool normed on a clinical college student population ✅ Requires no manual scoring ✅ To learn more about the CCAPS-Screen, please visit our website. https://lnkd.in/e3rHbmty

🏈 Elevate Your Athletic Department's Mental Health Support with CCAPS-Screen! 🏀 In line with the 2024 NCAA Mental Health Best Practice #2, we are thrilled to remind the higher education community that CCMH offers our members access to the CCAPS-Screen, a brief, yet comprehensive mental health screener. This tool, derived from the CCAPS 62 and 34, is designed to help counseling centers and athletic departments proactively support mental well-being of the general student body and student-athletes. CCMH members already have access to this invaluable resource. If your counseling center or athletic department is not yet registered, now is the perfect time to join us in prioritizing student-athlete mental health! 📌 Why Choose CCAPS-Screen? Aligns with NCAA's 2024 Mental Health Best Practices Easy to use and accessible Assesses eight areas of concern in just 36 questions Affordable Results are based on the clinical college student population 🏅 Ready to take the next step? Register today and ensure your athletes receive the mental health support they deserve. https://lnkd.in/esXGQbXR #MentalHealthMatters #NCAA #AthleteWellBeing #CCAPSScreen #MentalHealthBestPractice

While the CCMH 2023 Annual Report revealed that approximately 20% of the overall national sample experienced recent identity-based discrimination, there were remaining questions regarding the prevalence of discrimination within various identity groups (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, registered disability, international student status, religious affiliation, country of origin). This blog examines the rates of specific identity-based discrimination within the corresponding identity group (e.g., religious discrimination among clients with various religious identities). https://lnkd.in/gWi7BGtZ

Less than a week until this event! Register now to attend the live event or to get access to the recording! 😁 https://lnkd.in/eBK5Ad2z

Since 2007, CCMH has been growing as a grassroots practice-research-network and currently has 800+ college counseling centers members using the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS) with clients during routine mental health treatment. The CCAPS is integrated into 4 EMRs (Medicat, Point N Click, PyraMed, and Titanium Schedule) and these companies have been so wonderfully supportive of our mission. In fact, Titanium Schedule has been supporting CCMH from the beginning by by building the web-scoring platform for EMRs, as well as the capability for Titanium Schedule customers to contribute their anonymous CCAPS data to CCMH for research purposes (generating up-to date norms, reporting trends, investigating special topics, data for peer reviewed publications, etc.!) The CCAPS is routine outcome measure assessing Depression, Generalized Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Academic Distress, Eating Concerns, Family Distress, Frustration/Anger, and Substance Abuse in just 62 items (long form) or 34 items (short form) throughout the course of treatment. As of today, CCMH has collected anonymous CCAPS data from over 1,350,000 counseling center clients and 3,690,00 appointments! 😮

As we seek to scale mental health services to reach populations, it's critical that we do not lose sight of the individuals being supported. For example, when leaders zoom away from the actual people being supported, it can be tempting to talk confidently about things like the "average length of treatment" as if such numbers accurately describe the treatment process. The stubborn reality of mental health care is that each person's trajectory is profoundly influenced by a myriad of dynamics (other than the provider or treatment/support modality) that cannot be controlled - i.e., the diversity of human experience. Caring for people is, and will always be, both an art and a science; systems of care will need to allow for this diversity at the same time they seek to balance the books. My favorite illustration of this dynamic are the two charts below, created by Rebecca Janis, when we were building the 2017 Annual Report for the Center for Collegiate Mental Health (CCMH) at Penn State. Chart 1 shows the average reduction in distress, by session number, for about 50k people. Chart 3 illustrates average distress in reduction per session, grouped by total length of treatment. Together, these charts show that the diversity of human change is clearly hidden by averages and that we need to look beyond the mean to make good funding, business, and policy decisions. Building services to support populations requires us to think big and in bold new ways. As we do so, let's make sure that the people-in-need remain as our guiding purpose, not the technology or statistic of the day. Here's the link for the full report: https://lnkd.in/epm4zw-c #populationmodels #mentalhealth