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CMHC conducts research activities in the mental health field as part of a commitment to the science practitioner model and to increase the knowledge base for mental health services for the college population. These activities include participation in the Research Consortium of Counseling and Psychological Services in Higher Education of which CMHC was a founder, as well as more specialized projects, such as Internet Use Survey and "The Program Development Model."
By way of background, The Research Consortium of Counseling and Psychological Services in Higher Education was founded in 1990 under the leadership of David Drum, Ph.D. and Augustine Barón, Psy.D. of the Counseling and Mental Health Center, The University of Texas at Austin. An interim steering committee of 10 university counseling center directors met in Austin in March, 1990 to design the structure of the consortium and the first study to be conducted. Subsequently, an additional 22 centers were recruited for the first study based on regional representation and each director's expressed interest in research endeavors. Presently, about 45 centers participate in Research Consortium studies. Each counseling center is responsible for seeking approval from its local Institutional Review Board for each project. The the National Coordinator for the Research Consoritum is Chris Brownson, Ph.D.
To-date, four projects have been completed. Click here for a summary of the projects, with detailed reports in pdf file format.
CMHC initiated its Internet use research use among college students as a result of a workshop on the topic of Internet dependence, first offered Spring, 1996. Following that workshop, staff designed a questionnaire which was then mailed to over 1000 UT students the same Spring. The program was spearheaded by Drs. Kathy Scherer and Jane Bost.
Check out the results of the Internet Use Study. For more information, you can e-mail Jane Bost, Associate Director, CMHC, at jbost@mail.utexas.edu
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In 1992-93, CMHC constructed a conceptual model for program development. The model consists of a six-step process for planning, designing and evaluating programs for the university population. The purpose of the model is to facilitate the matching of counseling center programs with intervention levels based on students' stage of change (pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action) and to develop programs that are sensitivie to the diversity of the students who attend them. Much of the conceptual framework of the model used Drum and Lawler's (1988) work on developmental interventions and drew from Prochoska, DiClemente and Norcross' (1992) stages of change model.
This model is used to develop a series of developmental workshops entitled "Food for Thought," which are offered each year in the Fall and Spring semesters. These programs are evaluated to measure overall satisfaction, intervention levels, and specific presenter and program characteristics. Results are analyzed to determine if participant responses indicate significant differences on the evaluation measures based on gender, ethnicity, program, or stage of change. Stage of change is measured by having participants check as many as apply of a list of eight statements.
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