Word: counselors
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...acting "as normal as I could." When she agreed to spend her winter break at a psychiatric hospital, the university stopped threatening to kick her out. But afterward, says Giedinghagen, "I felt like I had to hide how I was doing from my doctor, my counselor, my nutritionist, so that I could stay...
Many schools are trying to emulate the University of Illinois, which requires students who express suicidal thoughts to see a counselor for four sessions if they want to remain in school. More than 1,800 students have gone through the program since it was launched in the early '80s, and none have committed suicide. Only one participant was forced to leave...
...time of disaster, you're the citizens' leader, more so than any other time. You're their counselor, their coach, their cheerleader, their security giver--you're all those things. There's a grieving process after a disaster, and you have to get the spirit up and keep it up. You're helping people get to the rebuilding stage. Their houses are a shambles--or gone--but they have to get up in the morning and take that step forward. --Compiled by Jeff Chu/New York and Zamira Loebis/Banda Aceh
...Wakefield, R.I., had already been to four proms. When most of her friends graduated, she began cutting class and losing focus. "High school was torture," says Ferszt. "I'd grown out of it. For some people, senior year just doesn't make sense." Kevin Quinn, Ferszt's counselor at South Kingstown High School, helped make her final year more meaningful by directing Ferszt to a dual-enrollment program at the local community college. There she is finishing earning her high school credits and beginning college-level classes. "Seniors need something to gravitate to and be re-energized by," says Quinn...
...only real instance” of “doing any contortion work at Harvard.” Some might disagree. In addition to her work in theater, Savitsky works two research jobs, contributes a column for The Harvard Crimson Arts section, is a peer counselor, does yoga, and says she even manages to go to class. Following graduation, Savitsky plans to go to law school and hopes to work in the “intersection of law and psychology,” although she knows she will continue to be involved in the arts. “A professor...