I am not on the clinical staff, but I do know that about 10 years ago one of our clinical people was involved with the counseling center in developing a peer counseling program that is ongoing. I believe after intake this reduced some of the load for the center staff, for cases that the peer counselors were deemed capable of handling, along with frequent monitoring. The peer counseling course is "taught" by our psych dept clinical folks. It's been 10 years and it seems to be working well. So this might be a consideration.
Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:26:42 -0400 >From: "Pollak, Edward " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [tips] Staffing Student Counseling Centers >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> > >This sounds like a really bad idea to me. I can only begin to imagine >the difficulties that a classroom instructor, academic adviser. field >experience supervisor, etc. (i.e., a social work or psychology >professor) would have with so-called "dual relationships." > >See >Bleiberg, J.R. & Baron, J. (2004). Entanglement in dual relationships >in university counseling center, Journal of College Student >Psychotherapy, 19 (1), 21-34. > >Ed > > >Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. >Department of Psychology >West Chester University of Pennsylvania >http://mywebpages.comcast.net/epollak/home.htm >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Husband, father, grandfather, biopsychologist, bluegrass fiddler and >herpetoculturist...... in approximate order of importance. > >Subject: Staffing Student Counseling Centers >From: "O'Dell, Cynthia D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:42:54 -0400 >X-Message-Number: 5 > >Our university is struggling with ways to increase the staffing at our >Student Counseling Center. One suggestion has been to have members of >the Social Work faculty rotate through the Center as Counselors for a >course load reduction each semester. I suggested that there might be >ethical issues if students are seeking counseling from faculty. I >thought the traditional model had permanent staff who were not full-time >faculty providing services. If faculty and graduate students are >providing services I assume you would have a Counseling Center open to >the public rather than a Student Counseling Center. However, I am not a >clinical psychologist and so have not followed the literature or >policies on this topic very well. So, any help would be appreciated. >Suggestions of guidelines or literature as well as personal experiences >would be appreciated. Thanks > >--- ---
