[Wctcca] [EXTERNAL] Re: Client Diagnosis

Fri Jan 20 11:29:38 PST 2023

Hi Kendra and everyone,

At BTC we don’t provide full mental health or substance use assessment or diagnosis. Mostly because we don’t provide on-going mental health or substance abuse treatment—we provide short-term, EAP-ish level of counseling/SBIRT/some case management- and care coordination-type support. Reading Caley’s response, I’m sure part of the decision to not diagnose was made in consideration of how we allocate the time/limited resources of having had only one counselor at our college (we just hired a second last year).

Philosophically, coming from a decade working in community mental health and crisis services, I have appreciated the freedom this gives me to help people outside of the medical model/limited focus of the DSM V, or without being required to pathologize their experience or them meet certain diagnostic criteria thresholds before I help them. The students that want or would benefit from full assessment and dx we bridge to qualified folks in the community who can make that dx (if appropriate) and also be available for on-going tx, not limit them to support bound to their enrollment status or limited to our capacity in this role.

Respectfully,

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Good morning Kendra and all,

The concern we have at Walla Walla CC is that we would be overwhelmed by students who would book appointments with the sole purpose of obtaining evidence for their Disability Support Service application. This could be problematic not only in taking appointment time away from other students, but the students obtaining DSS eligibility might be missing critical connection with their healthcare provider.
Just some thoughts!
Best,
Caley

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Hello Folks!

For many years (longer than any of us have been working here) at Edmonds College there has been a policy that we cannot diagnose mental health disorders for our clients. We have been interested in changing this policy and are doing our best to get clear answers about this from our division and college legal. However, we were wondering how other college counseling centers in our state approach this? Do you diagnose at your center? Why or why not?

Any information is much appreciated!

Kendra

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