Student Discipline and Psychotherapy:

College and university psychotherapists, and administrators responsible for student discipline, rely upon different methodology to reach harmonious objectives. Those objectives include fostering the development of students as responsible and even moral actors, and projecting the basic safety of the community as a whole. It is precisely because those broad objectives can be shared by pscyhotherapist and disciplinarians that we can adopt a team approach to student behavioral problems, in which differing emphases, practices, and standards of confidentiality are understood and respected. Ongoing discussion and dialogue between psychotherapists and disciplinarians will facilitate such cooperation, while dispelling mutual misconception by some administrators is that psychotherapists do not understand or support the need to set and enforce reasonable standards of student behavior.