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Good Reads for
Good Mental
Health
Canadore College, “Canadore
Introduces Niijii,” (August 10,
2012). Retrieved from http://
www.canadorecollege.ca/article/
canadore-introduces-niijii

Kate Lunau, “The Broken
Generation: The Mental Health
Crisis on Campus.” Retrieved from
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/
education/2012/09/05/the-mentalhealth-crisis-on-campus/

National Alliance on Mental Illness
(NAMI), “Learn About the Issue”
(2013). Retrieved from http://www.
nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/
Find_Support/NAMI_on_Campus1/
Learn_About_The_Issue/Learn_
About_The_Issue.htm

of support and the availability of
resources are spread as widely as
possible.
In order to help ease some of the
pressure that campus counseling
centers are experiencing, some
campuses have attempted to localize
their resources. Queen’s University,
for example, provides counseling
exclusively for students in residence
and for residence student staff. This
program is intended as an extension,
not a replacement, of the campus
counseling service, and it serves as
an option that some students might

choose because it may seem more
familiar but that others might bypass
because it is too close to home. “All
students also have the option of
using the main counseling service
on campus should they prefer some
more distance between their care and
their job,” Walsh says. Other campuses
have extended their resources into
the canine world. One of the newest
members of the mental health and
wellness program team at Canadore
College, in North Bay, Ontario,
Canada, is a German Shepherd named
Niijii (meaning “friend” in Ojibway),

Saluting Housing Officials
We depend on the
directions you set today

John-Henry Pfifferling and Gay
Gilley, “Overcoming Compassion
Fatigue: When Practicing Medicine
Feels More Like Labor Than a
Labor of Love, Take Steps to
Heal the Healer,” Family Practice
Management (2000), Vol. 7, No. 4,
pp. 39-44.

Daphne Watkins, Justin Hunt,
and Daniel Eisenberg, “Increased
Demand for Mental Health Services
on College Campuses: Perspectives
from Administrators,” Qualitative
Social Work (2012), Vol. 11, pp.
319-337.

See You In Minneapolis!
Brill Booths 425, 427 & 429

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