Conspiracy of silence: psychiatric counseling with students at high risk for academic failure.
The authors examined the academic records and counseling histories of 132 freshman students at a state university who sought psychiatric counseling. They found that most students with poor previous academic performance were not helped academically by brief (crisis intervention) psychiatric counseling. They also found that many couselors resisted confronting such students with their academic inadequacies.
D000124:Achievement; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D003376:Counseling; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D013332:Student Dropouts; D013333:Student Health Services