The Tennessee Tech University Counseling Center is dedicated to ensuring that faculty, staff, and students work and learn in an environment that is safe, respectful, and responsive to those in distress. This protocol document provides guidance to staff, faculty and students to identify and assist students in distress.
The Tennessee Tech University Counseling Center is committed to providing resources to ensure that a student in crisis is responded to quickly, responsibly and in an empathetic manner. A distressed student may also display disruptive behaviors, which may be covered by student conduct policy, and not be addressed directly by this protocol. This protocol is designed to provide guidance to the campus community. It defines how to:
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- Recognize the signs that a student may be in distress;
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- Establish a consistent framework for responding to the student in distress;
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Ensure a coordinated crisis response and review process.
For more information, or schedule a distress protocol learning workshop, please contact the counseling center at cmick@tntech.edu or call 931-372-3331.