Spring Break
More Counseling Services Needed
The State Hornet staff
Issue date: 5/9/07 Section: Opinion
This time of the school year is a stressful time for everyone, especially the workers at Sacramento State's Psychological Counseling Service Center. While students cram for finals and stress about everyday life, the Psychological Counseling Center is overwhelmed with demand and has contracted outside help. Clinical Psychologist Paul Turner said in a recent article in The State Hornet that the Psychological Counseling Center needs more regularly employed counselors.
This has been a difficult semester for college students in general and definitely for Sac State students. Last week, a fellow Sac State student died from a stray bullet during a senseless fight one turn away from the campus.
This followed a generally ambivalent morale demonstrated by Sac State students this semester. We were used as both as leverage and as bargaining chips while the administration and faculty bickered over contracts, and we are still stuffed like cattle in the classrooms as our fees balloon. The Virginia Tech massacre was felt by college students coast to coast and left many wondering if their campus was prepared or vulnerable.
Sac State offers free counseling for all students at the Drop-In Clinic, located on the 2nd Floor of the Student Health Center. Inside, students meet with a counselor and their immediate needs are discussed. Private treatment is free for each student for a limited period.
During the beginning of the semester, appointments are easier to acquire, but as the semester draws to a close, and the pressure on students increases, it is much harder to access this service. Students commonly have to wait a month and sometimes two months to see a counselor because they are so short-staffed.
The Psychological Counseling Services website offers links to articles and additional information on subjects ranging from managing reactions from trauma and stress to curing writer's block. There is a phone number for the Suicide Hotline as well.
This has been a difficult semester for college students in general and definitely for Sac State students. Last week, a fellow Sac State student died from a stray bullet during a senseless fight one turn away from the campus.
This followed a generally ambivalent morale demonstrated by Sac State students this semester. We were used as both as leverage and as bargaining chips while the administration and faculty bickered over contracts, and we are still stuffed like cattle in the classrooms as our fees balloon. The Virginia Tech massacre was felt by college students coast to coast and left many wondering if their campus was prepared or vulnerable.
Sac State offers free counseling for all students at the Drop-In Clinic, located on the 2nd Floor of the Student Health Center. Inside, students meet with a counselor and their immediate needs are discussed. Private treatment is free for each student for a limited period.
During the beginning of the semester, appointments are easier to acquire, but as the semester draws to a close, and the pressure on students increases, it is much harder to access this service. Students commonly have to wait a month and sometimes two months to see a counselor because they are so short-staffed.
The Psychological Counseling Services website offers links to articles and additional information on subjects ranging from managing reactions from trauma and stress to curing writer's block. There is a phone number for the Suicide Hotline as well.
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Kevin Eastman
posted 8/07/07 @ 10:51 AM PST
More counselors? Seriously?
I never required the services of a therapist during my time at Sac State, and I really can't imagine why anyone would. I had just as many tough times as anyone else, yet somehow managed. (Continued…)
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