Counseling Referral Practices
Baker University Counseling Center provides psychological evaluation and limited treatment of some emotional problems. Because of limitation of staff and appropriate facilities, the Counseling Center cannot offer comprehensive mental health services. If our counseling services are not the most appropriate for meeting a student's needs, referrals to other resources within the local community will be made.
The following guidelines can be used to define which students have needs best met by services other than those of the Baker University Counseling Center.
- Students with long histories of psychiatric difficulty of more than moderate severity or a history of multiple psychiatric hospitalizations
- Students with history of suicide attempt(s) with intended serious self-harm
- Students with chronic and/or present self-destructive behaviors that are life threatening
- Students manifesting psychosis
- Students with diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective or schizophreniform disorder
- Students with newly diagnosed bipolar affective illness, unstable bipolar illness or a history of treatment noncompliance
- Students in need of or likely to have a need for care that cannot be provided in an outpatient setting (e.g., hospitalization) or will not be maintaining self in school (i.e., therapy will need to be of such duration that it is not feasible within the confines of Baker University Counseling Center)
- History of impulsive, serious risk taking, or dangerous behavior
- Severe alcoholism and/or drug abuse for which a student refuses appropriate treatment
