Dori Hutchinson
Director of Services, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Associate Clinical Professor at Boston University
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Biography
Boston University
Dori S. Hutchinson, Sc.D. has worked at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University since 1984. Besides serving as Director of Services, Dr. Hutchinson is an Associate Clinical Professor at Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University. Dr. Hutchinson sits on several community mental health center advisory boards both locally in Massachusetts and nationally. Dr. Hutchinson was the 2000 recipient of the International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services Association’s (IAPSRS) Early Career Research Award for her contributions on health issues for persons with serious psychiatric disabilities and the 2010 Armin Loeb recipient for her work in health promotion and recovery education for the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association. She is a member of the Board of Directors of USPRA, having served as secretary, treasurer and is currently Chairwoman-Elect.
Dr. Hutchinson has developed and implemented recovery-oriented service initiatives that assist people who have mental illness assume their rightful roles as students, employees, residents and members of their communities. She provides training nationally to organizations and providers who wish to deliver recovery-oriented services and conduct relevant program evaluations. Dr. Hutchinson has worked more recently in developing mental health promotion services on campuses that assist students with serious mental illnesses to succeed in all domains of their lives as college students, as well as college suicide prevention programming that creates caring academic communities.
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Record Numbers of College Students Are Seeking Treatment for Depression and Anxiety — But Schools Can’t Keep Up
March 19, 2018
TIME Dori Hutchinson Not long after Nelly Spigner arrived at the University of Richmond in 2014 as a Division I soccer player and aspiring surgeon, college began to feel like a pressure cooker… Expert quote: A lot of schools charge $68,000 a year. We should be able to figure out how to attend to their whole […]
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Colleges Get Proactive in Addressing Depression on Campus
June 7, 2017
New York Times quoting Dori Hutchinson, Sargent College “Hailey Kim, who came from South Korea to study pharmacy at Rutgers University’s campus in New Brunswick, found herself at the entrance of the school’s mental health center, terrified of going in or walking away…” Expert quote: “…the capacity as an adult to be responsible and flexible […]
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Students Crippled by Anxiety
May 9, 2016
MomZette Dori Hutchinson, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College Carefree youth is an oxymoron. The pressures from school are overwhelming, resulting in crippling anxiety for many students… Expert quote: “We parent differently and we protect our kids from a lot of normal disappointments in the name of getting a leg up. They get […]
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Shedding stigma to stop suicides on college campuses
September 9, 2015
CNN.com Dori Hutchinson, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College Colleges are trying to help students learn to cope while also addressing mental health issues… Expert quote: “We’re listening because there’s so much student distress out there and we know from the research… two-thirds of the students, when they’re really struggling, they don’t go […]
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Colleges Work To Prevent Suicide And Fight Stigma Around Mental Health On Campus
May 11, 2015
WBUR “CommonHealth” Dori Hutchinson, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College As another academic year winds down, many colleges are reviewing how they raise awareness of mental health issues on campus, and what additional steps they can take to try to prevent suicide among students.. Expert quote: “I really feel there’s a lot of […]
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Campus stress: Student debt
December 7, 2012
WCVB “Chronicle” Dori Hutchinson, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, Center for Psychiatric Rehabiliation View video
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Campus stress
December 7, 2012
WCVB “Chronicle” Dori Hutchinson, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Larry Kohn, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Margaret Ross, Student Health Services View video
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Defusing stress on campus
August 13, 2012
Boston Globe Dori Hutchinson, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College; Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Hutchinson, the director of services at Boston University’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, has strong feelings about why young people commit horrific crimes such as the recent mass shooting in Aurora, Colo. — and what colleges and universities can do […]
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