Psychological complaints of students: A comparison of field samples with clients of a counseling service at a typical German University

Kreß, Volker; Sperth, Michael; Hofmann, Frank; Holm‐Hadulla, Rainer Matthias

doi:10.1016/j.mhp.2015.04.002

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“…Evaluating the validity of the CCAPS-62 in the UK is particularly important because its utility may vary across different countries, and the presentation of psychological symptoms has been shown to vary in different student samples (Kreß, Sperth, Hofmann, & Holm-Hadulla, 2015;Villacura et al, 2015;Yang, Lin, Zhu, & Liang, 2015). For example, a recent global report found that UK students displayed specific risk for separation distress and conflict between family and studies.…”

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The Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS‐62): Acceptance, feasibility, and initial psychometric properties in a UK student population

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Barkham

2017

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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University students attending counselling in the UK demonstrate clinical severity for academic distress, depression, anxiety, and social anxiety. Compared to university students in the US, UK students present with higher clinical severity on all contextual measures of student psychological distress. It is advantageous for university counselling services to administer a student-specific clinical measure over measures intended for the general clinical population. CCAPS-62 is an acceptable, feasible, and psychometrically valid measure of student psychological distress that can be used in the UK without revision. It is important for university counselling services to continue to provide support from therapists that are trained and experienced in the university context over services intended for the general clinical population.

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The Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS‐62): Acceptance, feasibility, and initial psychometric properties in a UK student population

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“…Overall, 34.4% of all undergraduates had at least one of the problems mentioned above, and of whom only between 33.9% and 47.0% had utilized a mental health service. In Europe, the most reliable studies from Germany, the UK, Norway, and Sweden showed mental disorder prevalence rates among students between 20% and 25% (Kreß, Sperth, Hofmann, & Holm-Hadulla, 2015). A World Mental Health Survey conducted by the World Health Organization found a prevalence rate of any DSM-IV mental disorder of 20.3% among 1,572 college students from 21 countries, only 16.4% of these students received any kind of treatment (Auerbach et al, 2016).…”

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Symptomatic distress and effectiveness of psychological treatments delivered at a nationwide student counseling service

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Fenger

Hougaard

2017

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

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The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of student counseling in Denmark and to compare the symptomatic distress among student counseling clients with that of Danish outpatients. The pre-intervention level of self-reported symptomatic distress among 1256 students closely paralleled that of psychiatric outpatients. Participants in the intervention study were the 739 student clients with two or more counseling sessions. For the 530 (71.7%) participants with both pre-and post-measurements, the mean pre-post Cohen's d effect size was 0.76 on the Global Severity Index of the Symptom Check List-90-Revised (Derogatis, 1992). An intention-to-treat analysis of all 739 clients resulted in an effect size of 0.59. The number of recovered clients according to the Jacobson and Truax (1991) criteria was 295 (68.8%) of the 429 (80.9%) clients above the clinical cutoff at preintervention, while 66 (12.5%) of the 530 clients reliably deteriorated. The mean number of sessions was 5.0. Individual counseling, number of sessions, and ending counseling in agreement predicted better outcome. In line with results from other countries, this study may indicate that in Denmark student counseling is an effective intervention for a highly needy clientele, even though a high proportion of clients deteriorated (12.5%) or droppedout (31.7%).

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“…Today, the primary mental disorders reported at counseling services for students are anxiety and depression, as well as academic problems and adverse life events [17,57]. Studies conducted in the UK, Sweden, Norway and Germany report prevalence rates of mental health problems among students of between 20% and 25% [36]. Training and licensing requirements for staff members of counseling services for students are evidently the sine qua non of assuring high quality of services.…”

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“…At least half of the clients of the students counseling service are suffering from clinically relevant disorders. The main problems reported by university students are diffuse anxieties, depressive moods, lack of self-esteem, psychosomatic symptoms, study-related complaints such as test anxiety and work and concentration difficulties, alcohol and substance abuse, as well as suicidality [36].…”

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“…Crisis intervention and short-term psychotherapy is also offered at the counseling services of some universities. As a matter of fact, the tasks of the counseling service involve diagnosis, crisis intervention, counseling, short-term psychotherapy and further placement of patients suffering from clinically relevant disorder [36].…”

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The ABCDE-Model of counseling and psychotherapy: An integrative approach developed from clinical practice at a counseling service for students

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Abstract. A comprehensive model of integrative psychotherapy that has been derived from clinical practice at the Counseling Service for Students of the University of Heidelberg is outlined. The ABCDE-model of integrative psychotherapy is based on established therapeutic methods and is composed of the dimensions of Alliance, Behavior, Cognitions, Dynamics and Existentials. Based on the therapeutic alliance and the general principles of understanding and communication, it comprises cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and existential elements and employs hermeneutics as a meta-theoretical framework. The evaluation of integrative counseling according to the ABCDE-model in a naturalistic single-group pre-post design demonstrated a clinically significant improvement within a rather short number of sessions. Therefore, the integrative model of psychotherapy is an important contribution to evidence-based practice. Moreover, models of training in psychotherapy and counseling for the better education of future therapists can be developed on the basis of the ABCDE-model.

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Psychological complaints of students: A comparison of field samples with clients of a counseling service at a typical German University

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The Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS‐62): Acceptance, feasibility, and initial psychometric properties in a UK student population

The Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS‐62): Acceptance, feasibility, and initial psychometric properties in a UK student population

Symptomatic distress and effectiveness of psychological treatments delivered at a nationwide student counseling service

The ABCDE-Model of counseling and psychotherapy: An integrative approach developed from clinical practice at a counseling service for students

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