Word: epo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colloquium--called the Intercollegiate Conference on Peer Counseling for Eating Concerns--was sponsored by Harvard's Eating Problems Outreach (EPO). The peer counseling group hoped to share its experience dealing with students' eating-related problems with visiting concerned students, deans, and health services personnel, said Louisa A. Smith '88, co-director of EPO...
Five organizations--Room 13, Peer Contraceptive Counseling, Response, Contact, and EPO--have since been established to advise students on specific issues, including sexual harassment and sexual orientation...
Smith said their greatest concern was "how we keep from becoming therapists." To prevent peer counselors from assuming the roles of therapist and psychiatrist, EPO counselors meet with UHS or the Bureau of Study Counsel weekly, reviewing the week's activity, Smith said...
...Suzanne Repetto, senior counselor at the Bureau of Study Counsel and supervisor for EPO and Room 13, notes that after the recent suicides at Harvard, peer support services were especially helpful Room 13 in particular "rescued [some] students reacting to the suicides with depressed feelings," she adds...
Group members say that keeping the organization operating isn't an easy task. "You need persistence," says EPO's Rorty. "The process of getting started, gaining credence and support, getting money--it happens, but it takes time...