Consultation
Counseling Services provides consultation to students,
faculty, or staff at UM-St. Louis. We offer workshops
on team-building, helping troubled employees, reaching out
to students in distress, conflict resolution, and crisis management.
In the past, we have served as consultants for students experiencing
roommate difficulties or conflicts in student organizations.
We also meet with students, faculty, or staff on an individual
basis who are concerned about a friend’s distress. (Read more
about Helping A Friend.)
Counseling Services staff are available, at the invitation
of faculty, to speak to classes on a variety of topics. See
our "Don't Cancel Class" page for a more detailed description of this program. (You
can also check the Program
Topics link for a complete listing of our workshops and
presentations.)
For faculty, staff, and students who are seeking referral
to an off-campus counselor, we provide consultation and have
an extensive list of referral options in the community.
Counseling Services’ professional psychologists provide the following consultation services to faculty:
- Telephone consultation to discuss your concerns about
a troubled or troubling student and to generate options for
intervention and/or referral.
- Emergency counseling sessions for students
in crisis. You are welcome to call ahead, to let us know the
student needs to be seen immediately. If you are concerned
about whether the student will arrive safely, you may want
to walk the student to our office.
- Crisis visits (“House Calls”)
to your office to talk with the student and assist in emergency
interventions.
- CS staff can be available at your office
to offer support to a student who is getting “bad news”
(e.g., being released from a program or department). In most
cases, we would meet with the student privately after they
meet with you.
- CS staff can meet with you and a disruptive
student, to work on clarifying expectations and a plan for
behavioral improvement.
- Counseling Services staff will look
at a student’s written work and offer an opinion of
whether there is sufficient concern to follow up with the
student.
- When you have made a referral, we will give the student the option to release information to you that they have attended counseling. (This is only done with written permission.)