August 2009
Welcome New Staff & Faculty!
I will guess that you are quite busy (overwhelmed?) with all the new faces, information, and tasks at present. So, I'll be brief...
The Counseling Center (CC; diagonally across from Cline Library) is a resource for faculty in a number of ways:
- We can consult with you about a student whose emotional issues and/or behaviors are a concern to you.
- You can refer students to CC for consultation with our professional staff. Depending on our assessment, we might then recommend a drug/alcohol screening, individual, couple's, or group counseling, and/or a medication evaluation.
- A counselor is on-call 24-7 for emergency consultations, assessment and intervention.
When you get time to surf, please visit our entire website at www.nau.edu/counseling/. If there are other ways we can be helpful to you as you work with students, please let us know.
Again, welcome. I hope your learning curve during your first year at NAU is not too steep!
Sincerely,
Chris Gunn, Ph.D.
Director
PS: To get some perspective on what your students may be experiencing, I recommend Richard Kadison's College Of The Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What To Do About It (2004).
PSS. We've also created a brief and helpful guide just for Staff and Faculty.
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