Worth Reading
College personnel everywhere are struggling with students'
increased neediness. By Peter Gray Ph.D.
Excerpt: A year ago I received an invitation from the
head of Counseling Services at a major university to join faculty and
administrators for discussions about how to deal with the decline in resilience among
students. At the first meeting, we learned that emergency calls to Counseling
had more than doubled over the past five years. Students are increasingly
seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises
over, problems of everyday life. Recent examples mentioned included
a student who felt traumatized because her roommate had called her a “bitch”
and two students who had sought counseling because they had seen a mouse in
their off-campus apartment. The latter two also called the police, who
kindly arrived and set a mousetrap for them. ... So now, here’s what we have:
Young people,18 years and older, going to college still unable or
unwilling to take responsibility for themselves, still feeling that if a
problem arises they need an adult to solve it.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment