The maladjusted college student

Abstract

After a brief history of the mental hygiene movement in American colleges, the writer describes the activities and the methods used at Ohio State University by the Student Consultation Service for maladjusted students. It was found by the writer that for practical purposes the "anecdote method" describing actual cases, was preferable to numerically evaluated scales. The students seem to prefer personal interviews to impersonal methods of diagnosis. The answers received by the writer to a questionnaire sent to a number of formerly maladjusted students who profited by the advice given them by the Consultation Service seem to corroborate this theory. The article concludes with a number of suggestions concerning the problem of the maladjusted student. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)