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Abstract
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There are four outstanding causes of mental ill health in the college: (1) failure on the part of the student to deal in a satisfactory way with the demands of his sexual instinct, (2) failure to make a satisfactory adjustment in the sphere of his social life, (3) failure to adjust himself satisfactorily in matters pertaining to his work in the college, (4) physical ailments of one kind or another. One of the ways in which the college may preserve the mental health of the student is in giving him such individual assistance as he may require in making his adjustments during the time that he is in college. A suggested plan, where the men live in the college, would be to make the dormitory a unit so as to have a direct contact with the student. In the dormitory, as a unit, would center the social life of the student. The unit would consist of about 100 men who would live in one dormitory during their college career with counselors assigned to the units under the direction of the mental health officer. The mental health department would consist of the mental health officer, a trained psychiatrist, who is responsible for the mental health of the student body as a whole, and under him a group of counselors, each of whom would be responsible to the psychiatrist for the mental health of the students in his unit. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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