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Additional counseling not given
JENNA MARTIN
Issue date: 12/4/07 Section: News
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Despite four student deaths during the past three weeks and an overbooked counseling center, the University has no plans to offer additional counseling.
Creating or joining Facebook groups has been one coping method. The Counseling and Psychiatric Services at the University Health Center serves as another way for students to deal.
The University Health Center offers short-term individual counseling, group counseling, crisis intervention, consultation services and outreach programs. The four students who died were in their 20s at their time of death. Emotions tend to intensify when deaths occur at a younger age, said Gayle Robbins, director of Counseling and Psychiatric Services at the University Health Center.
"People feel like 'they have so much left to give,'" Robbins said. "This is an unusual circumstance. When you have more than one loss, it compounds emotions in a significant way."
For students handling grief, CAPS is open Monday and Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The University's Student Affairs Web site states: "The decision to excuse, reschedule, allow a make up of, or allow a retake of a final exam is solely the prerogative of the instructor."
Robbins said she encourages students struggling with finals to talk with professors.
"The professor is usually pretty understanding," she said.
Creating or joining Facebook groups has been one coping method. The Counseling and Psychiatric Services at the University Health Center serves as another way for students to deal.
The University Health Center offers short-term individual counseling, group counseling, crisis intervention, consultation services and outreach programs. The four students who died were in their 20s at their time of death. Emotions tend to intensify when deaths occur at a younger age, said Gayle Robbins, director of Counseling and Psychiatric Services at the University Health Center.
"People feel like 'they have so much left to give,'" Robbins said. "This is an unusual circumstance. When you have more than one loss, it compounds emotions in a significant way."
For students handling grief, CAPS is open Monday and Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The University's Student Affairs Web site states: "The decision to excuse, reschedule, allow a make up of, or allow a retake of a final exam is solely the prerogative of the instructor."
Robbins said she encourages students struggling with finals to talk with professors.
"The professor is usually pretty understanding," she said.
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