Students face suspension over mental health woes
December 5th, 2008In the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech last year, colleges and universities are under pressure to keep an eye on students with mental health problems. At the same time, a growing number of students is asking for help with depression and anxiety.
National Public Radio profiles a student who found himself suspended after his family turned to his school for help when he said he wanted to kill himself.
Officials at the College of Mt. St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio, wrote Jeremy Jackson a letter saying that a threat to harm himself was a violation of college policy. Unnamed other parents say the same thing has happened to their children at schools elsewhere.
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December 11th, 2008 at 8:44 am
My daughter says that that the policy at her college is that they will make you take a leave of absence. I do imagine that many kids don’t seek help on that basis.
December 7th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
And people wonder why I’m so against going to talk to a counsellor.
December 6th, 2008 at 4:49 am
Yup, you reach out for help, you get cut down. Way to make everyone brave enough to come forward. And this is in the enlightened environment of a University. Oh, we’re REALLY making progress as a society now.