Students at Yale Faced Mental Health Crises. Instead of Helping Them, Yale Forced Them Out.

[Kamaji]

Students at Yale Faced Mental Health Crises. Instead of Helping Them, Yale Forced Them Out.

Administrative bloat leads to increased indifference to struggling students.

EMMA CAMP
12.1.2022

Nicolette Mántica was a junior at Yale who seemed to be thriving, maintaining a 3.8 GPA and participating in a variety of extracurricular activities. But she was also seeing a therapist through Yale Mental Health and Counseling. When she told her therapist that she sometimes cut her arms to cope with stress, she found herself thrown into a cruel and complex system—one that would forcibly withdraw her from the university and place a nearly unsurmountable set of obstacles in her way to be reinstated.

As one administrator allegedly told her, she was "a liability to the university."

Now, Mántica's experience is included in a lawsuit against Yale, alleging that the school's policies violate several federal laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Yale's policies and practices, as described in the lawsuit, reveal both a stunning callousness on the part of Yale administrators and how ever-expanding university bureaucracies don't improve university life but instead develop methods for seamlessly disposing of problem students.

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Source:  https://reason.com/2022/12/01/students-at-yale-faced-mental-health-crises-instead-of-helping-them-yale-forced-them-out/

[Fishrrman]

"Nicolette Mántica was a junior at Yale who seemed to be thriving, maintaining a 3.8 GPA and participating in a variety of extracurricular activities. But she was also seeing a therapist through Yale Mental Health and Counseling. When she told her therapist that she sometimes cut her arms to cope with stress"

When someone starts mutilating themself to "cope with stress", then it's time for "an institution".

And that "institution" isn't one of higher education.

Sorry, I'm a troglodyte, just as the avatar indicates.

[sneakypete]

When she told her therapist that she sometimes cut her arms to cope with stress, she found herself thrown into a cruel and complex system—one that would forcibly withdraw her from the university and place a nearly unsurmountable set of obstacles in her way to be reinstated.

I ain't no shrink and don't even play one on teebee,but that seems to me to have been an act of malice and stupidity on the part of Yale. Instead of trying to help her,they made it worse. If they were practicing shrinks,she would have a good basis for a mal-practice suit.

Instead of trying to help her,they virtually took a dump on her face.

[sneakypete]

"Nicolette Mántica was a junior at Yale who seemed to be thriving, maintaining a 3.8 GPA and participating in a variety of extracurricular activities. But she was also seeing a therapist through Yale Mental Health and Counseling. When she told her therapist that she sometimes cut her arms to cope with stress"

When someone starts mutilating themself to "cope with stress", then it's time for "an institution".

And that "institution" isn't one of higher education.

Sorry, I'm a troglodyte, just as the avatar indicates.

@Fishrrman

I agree,but the way that Yale handled it borders on purposeful criminal neglect. You have someone that is already borderline when it comes to mental stability,and you rub her face in her problems instead of trying to be positive and get help for her.

That's just not right,regardless of what your political POV is.