Who's qualified to do counseling work?
MPR's Tim Post has a piece today on the reduction of counselors at Minnesota's community colleges and universities -- even as the number of cases is increasing.
Anoka Technical College counselor Kevin Lindstrom brings up an interesting point when he tells Post what's wrong with spreading mental-health counseling duties throughout the staff of a college:
"To imply that someone else, no matter how much training they might have had in-house to recognize it, can also equally deal with it I don't think is fair."
Read the full story and listen to the audio here.
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