Abstract
Universities are ill equipped to handle the specialized nature of students with psychiatric disabilities. Dueto the increasing numbers of students with both identified and unidentified psychiatric disabilities, thiscase study provides guidance through a description and application of the Behavioral EcologicalStrengths-Focused (BES) Model. Use of the BES Model assists administrators and faculty tosimultaneously support students with psychiatric disabilities while maintaining standards for gatekeepingrequired in master’s level programs.
Disciplines
Social Work
Recommended Repository Citation
Desrosiers, Patricia and Cappiccie, Amy. (2015). The BES Model: Student Support and Gatekeeping Tool. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 15 (6), 71-84.
Original Publication URL: https://works.bepress.com/patricia-desrosiers/2/download/
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/socwk_fac_pub/16
Comments
The Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice (JHETP) is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of academic and intellectual knowledge by publishing, through a blind, refereed process, ongoing results of research in accordance with international scientific or scholarly standards. Articles should combine disciplinary methods with key insight to contemporary issues central to faculty, administrators, and industry specialists. Articles of regional interest are welcome, especially those dealing with lessons that may be applied in other regions around the world. Accepted manuscripts should make strong empirical and/or theoretical contributions and highlight the significance of those contributions to the higher education field.Objectives
1. Generate an exchange of ideas between scholars, practitioners and industry specialists2. Enhance the development of theory and application useful to faculty and administrators3. Provide an additional outlet for scholars and experts to contribute their research findings in the area of higher education