Word: mentalism
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...disturbing that his creative-writing professor had him removed from her class. Later that semester, two female students complained separately about what one called his "annoying" advances, and after an acquaintance warned that Cho might be suicidal, he was detained for several hours, evaluated at a local mental-health facility and released. "Everyone who is hospitalized isn't going to be banned from campus," Dr. Christopher Flynn, head of Virginia Tech's counseling center, told TIME...
...When it comes to the complex intersection of campus safety and mental health, the questions of what counts as sufficient warning signs and how universities should respond to them often end up in court. Move too quickly by, say, suspending a depressed student for posing a threat to himself or others, and schools can - and do - get sued for discriminating against the disabled. But parents of students who committed suicide have also wrangled settlements out of colleges for not doing enough to intervene. And, of course, there can be hell to pay for failing to protect other students when...
...suicide. Last August, New York City's Hunter College agreed to pay $65,000 to settle such a case. In the wake of these suits, the Governor of Virginia signed a bill last month that prohibits state colleges from penalizing or expelling students "solely" for attempting suicide or seeking mental-health treatment for suicidal thoughts. The law's primary goal is to encourage kids to get help, and it also requires schools to develop policies for dealing with such students...
...universities work on their emergency mental-health protocols, they have struggled with privacy rights when determining whether to notify families that a student is acutely distressed. Last summer the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on suicide prevention among college students, issued intervention guidelines that covered, for example, contacting parents against a student's wishes. The foundation, co-founded by a retired pharmaceutical executive after his son committed suicide, recommended that colleges avoid policies that either require or prohibit calling parents when a student seems acutely distressed. Why? Because schools need wiggle room and because sometimes families...
...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...