Word: counselor
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...mission or on a Monday morning in German class. But there was something especially awful about meeting these students in the quick cable-news compression of remembrance and mourning. She was a belly dancer, he was a track star; there was also an Air Force cadet, a camp counselor, a songwriter--in every case a portrait of promise and purpose. They had not wandered into one of the nation's top universities by accident; they had engineered and calculated and coaxed their way into this school, and they were going places, until one day they weren't anymore, stopped...
...with her through the phone and in person. While she declined to press charges, another student soon complained of his instant messages. After police investigated, an acquaintance alerted them that Cho might be suicidal. When police returned and questioned him further, they asked that he agree to see a counselor...
...Police asked Cho to speak to a counselor from a local mental-health facility; afterward, a magistrate issued a temporary detention order committing Cho to a psychiatric hospital. It's very difficult to obtain such orders; patients must not only be deemed mentally ill but unfit to care for themselves or an immediate danger. Court records show that Cho was not deemed an imminent threat, but it should have been clear by then that he was deeply troubled...
...concerned that Cho might be suicidal."(One of Cho's suite mates said last night on CNN that he told police that Cho IM'd him, "I might as well kill myself now.") Again, officers met with Cho "at length," Flinchum said, and asked him to speak to a counselor from a local mental-health service. "Based on that interaction with the counselor, a temporary detention order was obtained and Cho was taken to a mental health facility ," Flinchum said...
...relied on her faith and returned to Columbine that fall for her senior year, becoming a peer counselor. When she enrolled in college, she initially pursued her ambition to teach. But soon she decided that she could make a difference among young people in another way, and became a speaker and author. In her book Marked for Life, she writes about how Columbine became a pivotal point in her life, and she has been invited to speak at schools around the world about the tragedy...