Farnsworth Stresses Mental Health Needs

Mental Health programs have a definite place in the university, Dana L. Farnsworth declared in his recently-published book, "Mental Health in College and University."

Dr. Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Services, outlined a plan for academic mental health, suggesting that teachers can effectively counsel students without attempting to assume a psychiatrist's role.

Farnsworth conceives of an academic mental-health plan which can deal with severe ilnesses, but concerns itself more with "the normal student, working against unnecessary handicaps." He suggests that students "alternate activity and rest, without undue concentration on any one aspect of college life."

Farnsworth suggests that the promotion of mental health, a necessity for world peace, rests primarily with college graduates. "If the colleges and universities will not take the lead in a matter so vital as the rapid development of the mental-health aspects of the behavioral sciences, neither we nor they will be left to contemplate the error."