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Depression screening held at UWM Oct. 9

by: Beth Stafford

The Norris Health Center and the Psychology Clinic at the University of Wisconsin−Milwaukee will sponsor a depression screening at UWM on Thursday, Oct. 9.

The free mental health information and screening event is open to all members of the UWM community.

There will be an information booth in the concourse of the UWM Union on Thursday, Oct. 9, from 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Private depression screenings will be done in the UWM Union, rooms 220 and 250

The screenings are co-sponsored by Union Programming.

In addition, an online screening tool is available on the main page of the Norris Health Center website for students. The tool screens for mental health issues such as depression, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and eating disorders. If the online screening results indicate a particular problem or there are other concerns, students are encouraged to take the results of the online screening to practitioners at the Norris Health Center, the UWM Psychology Clinic of UWM’s department of Psychology, or their current healthcare provider.

The UWM Psychology Clinic is also open to all faculty and staff. Also, brochures are available on Norris’ website for all community members on a range of mental health topics including how to deal with stressed and emotionally distressed individuals.

Assistant Professor Jonathan Kanter is coordinator of the Psychology Clinic and director of the Depression Treatment Specialty Clinic. Both are operated through UWM’s Department of Psychology, College of Letters and Science. Kanter emphasizes that “depression can be treated but you need to talk to people and seek help. There’s a variety of treatments available at the university for students.”

For students, faculty and staff that are interested in having a program or workshop on a mental health related topic, Norris Health Center’s recently hired mental health and alcohol outreach coordinator, Sarah Belstock, can be reached at belstock@uwm.edu.

For more information, visit the Norris Health Center website at Norris.uwm.edu or call 414-229-4716.

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