Walden & Cowen (2024) discuss the prospect of changing the narrative on mental health and mental health support services for university counseling centers.

The authors recognize the systems change perspective, which involves interconnected support systems and institutional factors in addressing students mental health. For example, the theory would suggest that rather than counseling centers taking on the sole role of providing mental health services for college students, that these services be spread out across departments so that students have more than one avenue to access services.

The authors advocate for integrating multiple support systems together, such as multiple campus departments collaborating to provide support to students. This shift in paradigm calls for a change in attitude surrounding college students mental health and university counseling centers provision of services.