If you feel that the student is in crisis, you can call the counseling center or have the student call from your office. Tell the counseling center secretary that this is an emergency and she will connect you with a counselor immediately. If appropriate, the student will be scheduled for a crisis appointment that day. Every counselor at the counseling center has scheduled intake and crisis hours. Within a given day, there are many times available for students to come in for first appointments.
Students can usually set up an intake appointment within a week of their call to our center.
If the situation is an emergency, students can be seen on the day of their call in one of our crisis hours. Students are asked to come in for 75 minutes for their initial intake appointment to fill out basic informational forms and then meet with a counselor. The counselor and the student discuss counseling options in this first intake appointment and decisions are made regarding the next steps for the student to pursue. These steps may include no counseling, counseling at the counseling center, a medical evaluation referral, a substance abuse evaluation referral, a referral to a community mental health practitioner, or in emergency cases, a determination that the student should be sent to the psychiatric emergency room at a local hospital for further evaluation. The counselors at the counseling center are under ethical and legal obligations not to release confidential information.