The Affirm Lab, a research team at Boston College whose goal is to improve care for stigmatized youth, is currently conducting two studies to assess how mental health clinics and schools can better support transgender youth.
News
UCS Reports Increase in Students Seeking Mental Health Services
Craig Burns, director of University Counseling Services (UCS) at Boston College, said there has been a noticeable increase in students seeking help through UCS this academic year.
Opinions, Editorials
Boston College Should Evaluate Mental Health Services, Implement Virtual UCS Scheduling, and Hire More Referral Staff
Boston College should evaluate the efficacy of mental health services provided on campus in order to determine how to best serve the mental health needs of the student population. Some improvements that should be implemented include the creation of an email or messaging service to schedule appointments with University Counseling Services (UCS) and an increase…
Opinions, Column
The Power Of Meditation
When someone says the word “meditation,” what immediately comes to mind? Do you picture a Buddhist monk sitting cross-legged in a robe? Or maybe you’ve had the unfortunate experience of being bombarded with incessant Headspace ads on YouTube. You might even be drawn back to a memory of that person you met one time who…
Opinions, Column
Transgressing Mental Health Stigma
Spring has always carried a sense of new beginnings for me, so I always look forward to it. My fondest memories of spring are not necessarily the big moments, though. It is the small changes that do not significantly alter my schedule or my habits that impact me most. The birds in the morning that…
Opinions, Column
The Break That Saved Us All
“I’m just so done, I want this semester to be over,” is a phrase that has been echoing across campus since March. It’s like it became the slogan of the first half of 2021 at Boston College—the constant cry for help that we are all “so done.” I think it’s safe to say that while…
Opinions, Column
Girardot: BC and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
Columnist Doug Girardot writes that in their reopening rhetoric, BC officials did everything in their effort to downplay the realities of college life in a pandemic. The flurry of summer emails students received in their inboxes and the maroon and gold technocratic signage littered throughout campus have suggested a conditional promise of normalcy: If you do all these things, then we can have school just like usual. But this is a dangerously fantastical apodosis.
News
Nearly 200 Conversations Later, Lean On Me Reaches One Year at BC
The Boston College chapter of Lean on Me, the peer-to-peer texting mental health support network, has hosted nearly 200 conversations since its launch last year.
News, On Campus, Featured Story
University Counseling Services Expands to Newton Campus
Boston College University Counseling Services began offering individual counseling and same-day consultation services at the Newton Campus on March 19
On Campus, News
Solomon Shares Experience with Depression, Anxiety
Award-winning novelist and lecturer Andrew Solomon shared an account of his experiences with depression and anxiety in “Depression: The Secret We Share.”
