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Understanding Student Counseling Services (SCC)

What We Do:

  • We provide short-term therapy designed to ameliorate personal and developmental concerns that students may face.
  • Appointments are generally scheduled every other week. While there is no session limit, the majority of students attend six sessions or fewer.

Limitations of SCC services:

  • Some challenges are not amenable to short-term treatment such as long-standing emotional or behavioral difficulties and the necessary treatment is typically beyond the scope of the services we can provide.
  • SCC can assist students in connecting with therapists and psychiatric providers in the community to receive the appropriate level of treatment.

New Student Considerations:

  • SCC encourages new students and their families to carefully consider the support the student will need as they transition to meeting the demands of a rigorous art school environment. While often exciting, this transition may also be stressful.
  • Students who have had the ongoing support of a therapist or psychiatrist in the past are likely to benefit from a similar level of support--at least during their first semester.
  • In these instances, SCC strongly recommends that parents and students establish a relationship with a provider in the community before coming to campus to ensure students have access to ample support during their first semester.
  • The SCC staff are available to meet/speak with students to help facilitate finding a provider in the community.

 

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