Psychological Counseling Center

Psychological Counseling Center

Crisis Intervention

In most circumstances, the difficulties that students face can be addressed through the usual process of setting up and appointment with a PCC counselor and discussing the issues concerning the student. However, there are crisis situations in which immediate or same-day intervention by a counselor is warranted. Emergency physiological services are provided to the campus community by the PCC staff for such crises. Examples of crisis situations include:

  • suicidal thoughts or attempts
  • thoughts of doing serious harm to someone else
  • physical and/or sexual assault
  • acute depression, i.e. unable to eat or sleep or get out of bed
  • hearing voices/seeing things that no one else hears/sees
  • alcohol/substance abuse
  • trauma
  • cutting
  • If a crisis arises during working hours, students should contact the PCC by either calling 257-2920 or by going directly to the PCC office.
  • When students come toe the PCC office in crisis, they should make the secretary aware that there is a crisis.
  • Outside of regularly scheduled working hours, students living on campus are advised to notify their Resident Advisor (RA), Resident Director (RD), or Faculty Advisor of the crisis, who may then decide to engage PCC emergency services.
  • In an emergency, all students may utilize the campus University Police service 257-2222 or 911.
  • If students in crisis wish to speak with a trained peer counselor, students can call or stop by the OASIS Peer Crisis Intervention service, 257-4945. DEYO HALL G13c.
  • Students experiencing sexual assault, rape, or relationship violence may call, page, or stop by the office of the HAVEN Sexual Assault Peer Counseling Program, 257-4930, DEYO HALL G13c, 845-455-6093 (24-hr. BEEPER).
  • OASIS and HAVEN are open when classes are in session.

A note about confidentiality
PCC client information is confidential within ethical and legal guidelines. Information can only be released with the written consent of the student, except in the situations where a student poses a threat of serious harm to self or to others, or in the case of abuse/neglect of a minor, or in the case of a court-ordered release of information.