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Recommending Services for Student

• Faculty or staff recommending counselling for students must document and submit request to
Step 1 • Name of Student
Director of Student Affairs. The following must be documented in the request:
• Reason/s they may need counselling
• Personal views on whether they believe that the student may be of harm to self or someone
else.

• Director will determine if there are grounds for counseling the student.
Step 2

• Director will request a meeting with students, preferably within 24 hours after receiving
Step 3
request, recommending that such students make use of the counseling services offer.

• If the students refuse services offered, the Director should abide by such wishes. If the student
Step 4 followed.
accepts to the services offered, the procedures mentioned above “for student” should be

When Students Need Additional Services

• If the student needs more

intense services, they must be
Referral
referred for services to a
clinical psychologist

• If the student is in crisis, the

Urgent student must be transferred

Care immediately to the Emergency
room or Urgent Care center.

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