Lynda Birckhead Danley This is Me

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1. 1. Couseling Psychology Division 17 of the American Psychological Association

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   Published on: 1/1/2005   Last Visited: 1/4/2007

   Lynda B. Danley, PhD
   
   Associate Director/Training Director
   
   Carruth Center for Counseling and Psychological Services

2. 2. Sunday Gazette-Mail - College counselors see rise in student depression

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   Published on: 3/23/2003   Last Visited: 4/25/2003

   Lynda Danley, WVU's associate counseling director, says, "I do think we have an increase in adolescent substance abuse." When Danley started college counseling 24 years ago, "You didn't see middle school, late elementary school marijuana use."
   
   Danley and Yura recite a list of mental distress factors: Students who were crack babies.
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   Back to the Lexus kid: Danley speculates that the simple upswing in teen driving might have mental health consequences.
   
   "More students have witnessed the death of friends," she says. In her generation, "We did not have automobiles at 16."
   
   When students drop out of college, Danley suspects their mental health has a lot to do with it.
   
   "Maybe they have massive substance abuse in their family, or their parents are divorcing or sick," she says.
   
   "I had one student whose brother committed suicide. He was pulling 3.8s and then -" she mimes an airplane crashing.
   
   Another student who was suicidally depressed turned out to have an undiagnosed learning disability.
   
   "He was trying so hard, but he was failing, running up against a wall," Danley says. After his diagnosis, "We had to work with what he had internalized about being stupid."
   
   With counseling, both students wound up excelling in college.
   
   ‘The deal of the century'
   
   "I think the plus side of all this," Danley says, "is that we're in a culture more accepting of counseling for mental health issues."
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   Much of the time, that's enough, Danley says.
   
   "A lot of these things, people can work out in six or seven sessions," she says.
   
   The students agree. Although a few say they haven't gotten much out of counseling, their feedback questionnaires are more likely to state: "The counselors at Carruth saved my life."
   
   "That's why we love working in this setting," Danley says.

3. 3. News in brief: WVPA announces new officers

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   Published on: 10/26/2006   Last Visited: 10/26/2006

   WVPA will be led by: President Roy H. Tunick of West Virginia University, Morgantown; President-Elect Ruth Ann Panepinto of Panepinto & Associates, Morgantown; Secretary Patricia M. Bailey of Bailey Behavioral Health Inc., Wheeling; Treasurer Donna M. Midkiff of Mildred Mitchell Bateman Hospital, Huntington; Past President Lynda Birckhead Danley of West Virginia University, Morgantown; Representatives-at-Large Terry Laurita Sigley of Morgantown, and Brian Bailey of Accord Psychological Services, Huntington; and American Psychological Association Council Representative John C. Linton of ABPP, Charleston.
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   WVPA will be led by: President Roy H. Tunick of West Virginia University, Morgantown; President-Elect Ruth Ann Panepinto of Panepinto & Associates, Morgantown; Secretary Patricia M. Bailey of Bailey Behavioral Health Inc., Wheeling; Treasurer Donna M. Midkiff of Mildred Mitchell Bateman Hospital, Huntington; Past President Lynda Birckhead Danley of West Virginia University, Morgantown; Representatives-at-Large Terry Laurita Sigley of Morgantown, and Brian Bailey of Accord Psychological Services, Huntington; and American Psychological Association Council Representative John C. Linton of ABPP, Charleston.