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Eating Problems Outreach (EPO) appreciates The Crimson's coverage of the intercollegiate conference on peer counseling, which took place on Saturday in Boylston Hall. However, we noted several glaring inaccuracies and would like to set the record straight...
...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...
...EPO solves this by placing such students in administrative and organizational positions, which are equally important to the success of peer counseling, she said...