Premature Return to School following a Psychotic Episode.

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Title:	Premature Return to School following a Psychotic Episode.
Authors:	Gift, Thomas E.¹, Southwick, William H.²
Source:	Journal of American College Health. Mar1988, Vol. 36 Issue 5, p289-292. 4p.
Subject Terms:	Mental health of college students, College students, Educational leave, Health services in universities & colleges, Psychoses, Mental illness, Mental health personnel
Abstract:	A college mental health service professional often finds that a student who has had an episode of psychiatric illness is eager to return to fulltime status before he or she seems ready for this undertaking. The mental health professional may advise that the student stay out of school for a longer period, but often this advice is rejected. Approaches to dealing with the problem of return to school following an academic leave prompted by a psychotic episode include the requirement that the student maintain a minimum time out of school and be in treatment during the attempt to return to academic life. The assessment of a student's psychological status at the time of a proposed return often raises the problem of dual agency. Although the college mental health professional is apt to place a high value on maximizing the student's chances of having things work out to his or her liking, the administrator to whom the mental health professional is ultimately responsible is probably inclined to place the needs and well-being of the campus community above those of the student seeking to return. While the proposed return of a student to academic work following a psychotic episode poses many difficult questions, considerable experience is available to aid in the task of those charged with making this decision. The authors propose two helpful approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:	A college mental health service professional often finds that a student who has had an episode of psychiatric illness is eager to return to fulltime status before he or she seems ready for this undertaking. The mental health professional may advise that the student stay out of school for a longer period, but often this advice is rejected. Approaches to dealing with the problem of return to school following an academic leave prompted by a psychotic episode include the requirement that the student maintain a minimum time out of school and be in treatment during the attempt to return to academic life. The assessment of a student's psychological status at the time of a proposed return often raises the problem of dual agency. Although the college mental health professional is apt to place a high value on maximizing the student's chances of having things work out to his or her liking, the administrator to whom the mental health professional is ultimately responsible is probably inclined to place the needs and well-being of the campus community above those of the student seeking to return. While the proposed return of a student to academic work following a psychotic episode poses many difficult questions, considerable experience is available to aid in the task of those charged with making this decision. The authors propose two helpful approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:	07448481
DOI:	10.1080/07448481.1988.9939659