学生教务处的工作人员与校园内的合作伙伴合作,支持学生克服他们可能面临的任何挑战. 我们帮助学生与适合他们个人需求的资源联系,并与关心学生的教职员工协商.
What to do in an emergency situation:
If you believe there may be imminent danger of harm to a student or someone else, immediately call the Boston College Police Department (BCPD) for assistance at 617–552–44444; if you are off campus, dial 911. If you need help in assessing the situation, call the University Counseling Services at 617–552–3310 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.; after 5 p.m. contact BCPD at 617–552–4440.
Once the emergency situation has been addressed, 您仍然应该向学生外展和支持团队报告您的担忧,电话:617-552-3470或提交在线报告.
What to do in a non-emergency situation
If you do not think that there is an immediate threat to someone's safety, 并且您想与有关学生的人交谈,请联系学生院长办公室的学生外展和支持团队,电话为617-552-3470. You can also submit an online report regarding a student of concern here:
Case Management Learning Outcomes
Students who participate in Case Management services will:
- Be able to identify on and off campus support and resources.
- Students will understand how and why to access support and resources.
- Students will report feeling more comfortable accessing support and resources.
- Students will be able to identify people and places in their life that are supportive to them.
As faculty and staff at BC, you may be the first to recognize the signs of a student who is struggling, in distress, or in a state of crisis. These signs often become evident on campus, in the classroom, and in the residence halls. You may notice a significant drop in a student’s academic investment, increasing isolation from peers, or you may simply be present when a student decides to share his or her struggles. 学生最初可能会寻求教师和工作人员的帮助,因为他们可以被认为是可用的,愿意倾听. Therefore, 认识到痛苦的迹象和症状,知道如何回应并将学生转介到适当的部门寻求帮助是非常重要的.
What Do Signs of Distress or Mental Health Crisis Look Like? How can I help?
重要的是要认识到当有人遇到困难,并在它变成危机之前进行干预. If a student is already exhibiting signs of being in a state of crisis, it is important to respond appropriately.
Signs to be aware of
这是常见的学生感到痛苦,在一个时间或另一个由于难以适应, stress, anxiety, self-esteem, and relationship problems and may exhibit symptoms such as depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, and more. 当痛苦的症状持续一段时间时,会有警告信号,这可能表明问题可能是一个值得关注的问题.
A crisis is a situation in which an individual’s usual style of coping is no longer effective, and the emotional or physiological response begins to escalate.
了解学生痛苦的严重程度对于提供最好的回应和支持是很重要的.
Signs of Distress
Changes in academic performance
Changes in attendance at class or meetings
Depressed or lethargic mood
Hyperactivity and/or rapid speech
Withdrawal from friends or daily activities
Marked change in personal habits
Repeatedly falling asleep in class
Behavior that pushes the limits of decorum and that interferes with the educational environment
Physical signs such as immobilization, shaking, agitation, and aggression
Signs of a Mental Health Crisis
Destruction of property or other criminal acts
Extreme anxiety resulting in panic reactions
Inability to communicate
Suicidal statements or attempts
Loss of contact with reality or highly irrational thinking
Highly disruptive behavior
Confused and repetitive thinking
Fighting or assaultive behavior
Physical signs such as immobilization, shaking, agitation, and aggression
Academic Signs
Deterioration in quality of work
Missed assignments or appointments
一再提出不寻常的要求,如迟交论文、延期、推迟考试等.
Papers or essays that have themes of hopelessness, social isolation, rage, or despair
Lack of engagement in participation-oriented classes
Repeated absence from class or lab
What You Can Do for a Student in Distress or Crisis
If you choose to approach a student you are concerned about or if a student seeks you out, here are some suggestions:
- Talk to the student in private when both of you have time and are not rushed or preoccupied.
- Be direct and specific. Express your concern in behavioral, nonjudgmental terms. For example, say, “You look stressed. I’m concerned about you. Can you tell me what is going on?”
- Listen sensitively.
- Be aware of resources and share information about appropriate resources with the student.
- Follow up. Check with the student later to find out how the student is doing. Provide support as appropriate.
If you feel that there is an emergency situation, or a student may be an immediate threat to themselves or others, please contact BCPD at 617-552-4444. Reporting your concern
Reporting your concern
The Office of the Dean of Students (DOS) serves as the central office on campus for staff, faculty, students and other community members to report concern about a student. If you are concerned about a student, please contact us through our online Student of Concern Reporting Form or by calling us at 617-552-3470. You can also refer a student directly to the DOS Team at 617-552-3470.
Even if a student reports concerning information from before their time at BC, you should still report this to the DOS team. Of particular concern is students reporting a history of a significant mental health concerns, hospitalizations and/or suicide attempt(s).
Please note that if you are concerned about someone's immediate safety, please call the Boston College Police Department (BCPD) at 617–552–4444.
向DOS团队报告您的担忧,确保学生能够获得协调的护理和支持,并提供有关学生的担忧和向学生提供的任何支持的文件.
If you are concerned about someone's immediate safety, please call the Boston College Police Department (BCPD) at 617–552–4444.
The following is information about counseling, medical, and personal assistance resources that you could provide to a student.
University Counseling Services
Gasson Hall 001 | 3n71.x-wingfashion.com/counseling
University Counseling Services (UCS) is located in Gasson 001 617-552-3310. UCS offers individual counseling, consultation, and group counseling for many types of concerns, including eating disorders, sexual assault, depression and stress management. The staff of UCS includes counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists. Counseling is available free of charge to all full-time Boston College students.
预约可以通过电话(617)552-3310与行政助理通话, or in person by stopping by our office and ask to make an appointment. Please bring your BC ID. Please note that you cannot make an appointment for another person.
For psychological emergencies there is a psychologist-on-call 24 hours a day. Regular working hours are 8:45 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Monday through Friday, call (617) 552-3310. After office hours and weekends call (617) 552-3227. This is the Primary Care Center on 2150 Commonwealth Avenue (the ground floor of the Thomas More Apartments). Ask to speak to the Psychologist-on-Call. If the Primary Care Center is closed, call the BC Police at (617) 552-4444 and ask to speak to the Psychologist-on-Call.
Women’s Center
Maloney Hall | 3n71.x-wingfashion.com/wc | 617-552-3489
The Women's Center (WC) is an advocacy collaborative focused on women and gender issues that provides the Boston College community with: a forum to discuss contemporary social topics through empowering educational programs; nurturing peer-to-peer support groups; and outreach awareness campaigns.
The Women's Center is under the umbrella of The Office of Health Promotion, 负责指导促进电子游戏软件社区所有成员健康和福祉的项目和服务. 健康促进小组由健康教育工作者和学生志愿者组成,他们共同努力,在校园促进健康的生活习惯. 健康促进办公室提供与学生健康有关的一系列主题的信息, including: stress management, alcohol and drug use, nutritional health, sexual health, bystander intervention education, prevention of relationship violence, LGBTQ health issues, and more.
Sexual Assault Network | 3n71.x-wingfashion.com/sanet | 617-552-2211
电子游戏软件性侵犯网络(或SANet)为任何受到性侵犯影响的电子游戏软件学生提供支持和资源, rape, relationship violence, and other related crimes. SANet的服务是免费和保密的,可以通过拨打(617)552-BC11全天24小时访问.
University Health Services
2150 Commonwealth Ave. | 3n71.x-wingfashion.com/uhs | 617-552-3225
University Health Services offers nutrition counseling, basic health services including women's health evaluations and resources for physical assessments. The Center is accessible 24 hours a day. Appointments are available Monday through Friday in the Outpatient Unit. After hours, students can be evaluated for urgent problems in our Inpatient Unit. Please call with questions or to schedule an appointment.
Campus Ministry
McElroy 233 | 3n71.x-wingfashion.com/ministry | 617-552-3475
True to its Catholic and Jesuit character, Boston College Campus Ministers, in alliance with its strong corps of Resident and Peer Ministers, 为电子游戏软件的所有学生提供教牧支持,帮助他们处理信仰问题, vocation, stress, loneliness, sickness, relationships, grief, loss and matters of spiritual and emotional well-being. If in need of any of these services, 校园部鼓励您在麦克尔罗伊233的主要办公室停下来或致电617-552-3475
Residential Life
Maloney Hall 413 | 3n71.x-wingfashion.com/reslife | 617-552-3060
电子游戏软件的住宅生活办公室旨在培养一个包容性的住宅社区,以补充大学的学术使命. 大厅工作人员提供项目和领导机会,旨在促进负责任的决策和个人责任. The Resident Assistants and Resident Directors are located in the halls to provide educational, developmental, social, and spiritual support to our students. Resident Assistants are available each evening on a rotating basis in each hall. There is always a Resident Directors and a senior administrator on call during the year. 你可以通过在一周内拨打总办公室电话(617)552-3060或到你所在楼层的住宿助理的房间去找你的大厅工作人员. Contact information is also posted in each building on a main bulletin board.
Boston College Police Department (BCPD)
Maloney Hall 1st Floor | Emergency 617-552-4444 |Non-Emergency 617-552-4440 | 3n71.x-wingfashion.com/bcpd
如果你在处理某种情况时需要帮助,或者你认为对学生或其他人可能有迫在眉睫的伤害危险, as evidenced by several crisis symptoms, immediately call the Boston College Police Department (BCPD) for assistance at 617-552-4444. Administrator on Call (via BCPD): 617-552-4440. Psychologist on Call, Emergency: 617-552-3227.
The Behavioral Evaluation Team
行为评估小组(BET)是一个由教职员工组成的多学科小组,是关于可能处于困境或危机中的学生和/或表现出相关行为的学生的信息中心. In its work, 该小组强调学生的预防和早期干预,并努力协调大学的资源,以制定支持学生的策略. BET的目标是提高个人学生和校园社区的整体福祉和安全.
当学生表现出严重和迫在眉睫的健康或安全风险和/或表现出严重破坏大学学习环境的行为时, the BET makes an individualized assessment of the matter. 然后,BET可能会向学生主任或指定人员推荐一系列回应和支持策略,包括, but are not limited to:
- Outreach to the student to provide direct support;
- Refer to on campus support resources and/or case management;
- 要求学生进行医疗/心理评估,并遵守任何此类评估提出的治疗建议;
- Modify campus housing placements to limit further disruptions of the residential community, which may include relocation in campus housing, separation from campus housing, and/or conditions on remaining or returning to campus housing;
- Institute an interim administrative action(s); and
- Recommend or require a leave of absence.
The Office of the Dean of Students, or designee, reviews any recommendations of the Behavioral Evaluation Team, makes a determination about what, if any, measures are appropriate, and oversees the implementation of any recommendations of the BET.