There is a mental health crisis facing the nation’s colleges, but Woodstock resident Dr. Philip K. McCullough and his daughter Kristen M. Granchalek, a licensed clinical social worker, believe that awareness is a key.
“According to the Chronicles of Higher Education, suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students,” McCullough said.
“My daughter Kristen and I had presented workshops for student services and faculty, and when I looked at all of the material we had, I thought that it would be really easy to compile this into a handbook to give more people access to this information,” McCullough explained.
Their collaboration resulted in the book “Mental Health and the Adaptation to College: A Handbook for Residence Advisors.” It was released in November and is being used at Ripon College with the hope other colleges and universities will adopt it as a resource for residence advisors and faculty.
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