Is Student Pathology Really Increasing? Seven Measures of the Acuity of Counseling Center Clients, 1992–2007

Autor:	Allan J. Schwartz
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Dysthymic Disorder Adjustment disorders medicine.disease Phobic disorder Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Mood medicine Anxiety medicine.symptom Personality Assessment Inventory Medical diagnosis Psychology Psychiatry Clinical psychology Psychopathology
Zdroj:	Journal of College Student Psychotherapy. 29:257-270
ISSN:	1540-4730 8756-8225
DOI:	10.1080/87568225.2015.1074017
Popis:	Since 1992, an overwhelming consensus among counseling center directors has asserted that, year after year, the severity or psychopathology of counseling center clients has been increasing. In contrast to this perceptual consensus, the search for confirming evidence using client self-report measures has been frustrating. These studies have generally failed to confirm changes in client severity or qualitative psychopathology. The present study analyzed Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) data from 4,755 clients spanning a 15-year period from 1992–2007. Results indicated a stable proportion of clients warranting any Axis-I diagnosis (72%), no change in overall acuity, a significant decline in suicidality, and stable levels of severity within each of four groups of clients: those warranting a PAI-assigned diagnosis for (a) a mood disorder, (b) anxiety or phobic disorder, (c) dysthymic disorder, or (d) adjustment disorder. A number of processes are identified as likely contributors to the persisting but pe...
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