The journal of college student psychotherapy. The Virginia Tech massacre.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
A chronological sampling of Amada's writings generated during thirty years in practice, chiefly from the Journal of college student psychotherapy. Topics include mental health, psychotherapy, college students, college adminstrators and mental health professions and their interactions. Contains a paper: "Coping with the disruptive college student: a practical model" as well as two pieces about the massacre at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the last being a critical review of the Virginia state commission's report: The Virginia Tech massacre : strategies and challenges for improving mental health policy on campus and beyond. Proposes clear standards of student behavior and interwoven responses by administrators and mental health professionals enacting publicized procedures and protocols with regard to students exhibiting disruptive behaviors, the rationale and necessity for progressive discipline, safety issues for students and college personnel, while acknowledging institutional and personal fallibility and the uncertain timetables and outcomes of psychotherapy and persons with serious mental health burdens.
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