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...come home for a couple days and is somewhat distraught and fearful. After her meeting with Dean Hewitt, she called again. She was very unhappy with the meeting and seemed to get no support from the dean. She told me that the boy was scheduled to see a psychiatrist at 2 p.m. that day. At that point, I called the dean and requested a permanent room change for my daughter as well as the possibility of some counseling. The dean agreed to both requests...
...also asked what steps were being taken in my daughter's behalf regarding the boy. Dean Hewitt was very evasive and uncooperative. She couldn't tell me anything except that the boy would see the psychiatrist. Everything else was confidential. No help was offered to my daughter for her move to another dorm. She and her two friends made the move. She was moved to another freshman dorm, a single room, without a telephone. The boy's key could open the outside door of that building as well. Without any information about the boy or his whereabouts...
...problem is of frightening magnitude: 2,000 teenagers commit suicide each year, and for every suicide, there are up to 350 failed attempts. "In an age where the cult of youth is so valued, emulated and pursued," notes psychiatrist Andrew Slaby, "we have been unable to respond to our children and teens when they are in the greatest pain." Slaby's No One Saw My Pain: Why Teens Kill Themselves (Norton; 208 pages; $23), written with Lilli Frank Garfinkel, is a canny and compassionate attempt to make, and help others to make, such a response...
...Psychiatrist Accused of Sexual Misconduct...
BOSTON--The medical registry board said yesterday that a psychiatrist who allegedly had sex with a patient may have had inappropriate relationships with other patients...