This chapter discusses the fundamentals of financing health and counseling centers and also identifies contemporary issues related to financing these two services.
While college campuses are relatively safe environments, the promise of safety and security on campus was shattered by a single gunman on April 16, 2007. Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech, shot 49 students and faculty, killing 32, before killing himself. The authors are psychologists and directors of university counseling centers; they examine the many implications of this tragedy on mental health counseling. The assailant's significant psychological disturbances and previous contact with mental health professionals are critical to understanding how he was able to act out his murderous rage. The mental health response to a traumatized community of families, friends, colleagues, and peers is reviewed. Out of the tragedy, there have emerged many issues that challenge the role of counseling centers within the university including the development of threat assessment teams, the potential conflicts between client confidentiality and crisis prevention/management, and the on-going education for the university community regarding suicide prevention, mental illness and support for potentially marginalized students.hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green and young -e e cummings (1940) On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, a senior English major at Virginia Tech, shot 49 students and faculty, killing 32, before turning his gun on himself and committing suicide in front of wounded survivors. This horrific tragedy now enters history as the largest single act of violence at an American university. What was clearly an incomprehensible criminal act quickly became a mental health emergency that challenged counseling psychologists and other mental health practitioners to respond to the needs of families and friends of the deceased, to the wounded survivors, and to a traumatized community-this in addition to the struggle to understand the motivations of this deeply disturbed young man who so carefully planned the murders and his own death. As directors of university counseling centers, we will examine the
In response to the challenges posited by Eileen P. Anderson-Fye and Jerry Floersch in their article on college student mental health, a psychologist and counseling center director reflects on the implications for university counseling and psychological service centers. Among other things, issues related to high-risk students, the developmental barriers to help-seeking behavior, the increasing utilization of psychotropic medications, and the broadening mandate of campus mental health providers are addressed. Finally, interdisciplinary collaboration in service to university students is encouraged. [mental health, university counseling services, adolescents and college students, psychotropic medication]
Lamb and Rapin's (1976) ecological model for categorizing and evaluating student development services emphasizes the total environment of the student service as critical to the students' receptivity to and ultimate success in counseling. The adjunct role of the support staff in the creation and maintenance of a generally positive milieu is often assumed or ignored. To remedy this situation, a staff development program was implemented to (a) provide recognition of the support personnel's necessary involvement in and contribution to the division's mission, (b) develop human relations skills, and (c) facilitate increased understanding and communication between the professional staff and the support staff.
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