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17 - Counseling students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2010

James G. S. Clawson
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
Mark E. Haskins
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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“Be yourself!” is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

– Tom Masson

No matter how well credentialed and trained psychotherapists may be, if they cannot extend themselves through love to their patients, the results of their psychotherapeutic practice will be generally unsuccessful. Conversely, a totally uncredentialed and minimally trained lay therapist who exercises a great capacity to love will achieve psychotherapeutic results that equal those of the very best psychiatrists.

– M. Scott Peck, M.D., The Road Less Traveled

You're sitting in your office when a student nearing graduation comes in with the news that his best friend and classmate has just been killed in an automobile accident. He seems confused, on the verge of tears, and not sure what to do. He obviously wants to talk.

A student enters your office in tears; the probable grade of C in your course would mean failing out of graduate school and severe shame before family members.

Citing “personal problems” and “pressure” as her reasons, a bright, promising student in your class comes to your office and announces her intentions to leave school midway through the first year.

A student who has hardly talked at all during the semester comes in to your office, sits down, and says, “I'm not sure why I'm here, but you seem like the person to tell. I've just learned that my fianc'e has cancer.”

An executive education program participant says he can't stand his boss, but can't quit his job.

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Teaching Management
A Field Guide for Professors, Consultants, and Corporate Trainers
, pp. 304 - 322
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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