We need more therapists, and it’s a systemwide defect, writes Isabel M. Perera, assistant professor of government in the College of Arts and Sciences, in a USA Today opinion article.
“Why? Different factors have gotten airtime – rising stress levels, poor insurance reimbursement rates and a broken pipeline for training new providers,” Perera writes in the piece. “However, there’s a deeper, less discussed issue at play: Mental health professionals lack collective political power.”
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Cornell Provost Kavita Bala speaking with Kalaniyot Sabbatical Scholar Naomi Havron at the Kalaniyot reception Oct. 19. In the background, Kalaniyot Fellow Eden Eran Nagar speaks with Fellow Shachar Yerushalmi.
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Seidenberger built Hopper from scratch so students can see the logic on which it is built and play a role in developing it and improving it over the course of his class.
