Conference Asks: What Should Colleges Do About Dangerous Behavior ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-27 19:12:10
Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui's behavior gave significant cause for affright in the months before his rage exploded into bloodshed last April but many news accounts suggested that federal privacy laws had tied the university's hands until Cho acted out his fantasies of violence. Eileen Bazelon disagrees. Bazelon resident psychiatrist at Bryn Mawr's Health bear on has convened a group of nationally recognized experts to discuss the law and ethics of balancing students' alter to privacy against their own safety and that of their communities.
The one-day conference titled "Dangerous Behavior on College Campuses," will act place in Thomas Great Hall on Bryn Mawr's campus on Monday. Sept. 24. It is open to college and university administrators counselors deans security officers legal discuss and other interested parties.
has been a consultant on law and policy issues at many leading universities and was designated a fellow of the National Association of College and University Attorneys in 2002. His 2006 schedule.
argues that college administrators have "erred on the align of underreaction in terms of notifying parents in terms of hospitalization in terms of therapeutic resources" in dealing with students who are at risk of suicide.
A adorn discussion promises a lively debate among some prominent representatives of a range of positions. The panelists:
In the afternoon. Alison Malmon the fail and executive director of Active Minds ordain furnish a presentation. Malmon founded the group which has 72 chapters nationwide when she was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001; its intend is to raise awareness of mental-health issues on college campuses.
Conference organizer Eileen Bazelon has served as a psychiatrist at Bryn Mawr for more than 30 years and is an associate professor of psychiatry at the Drexel University College of Medicine. She is a member of the come in of trustees of the adjudicate David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law whose mission is to protect and advance the rights of adults and children who undergo mental disabilities.
For more information about the schedule and registration download (a 147K PDF). To register go the brochure's registration form to:
Health Center Conference Conferences and Events Bryn Mawr College 101 N. Merion Ave. Bryn Mawr. PA 19010
The $30 registration fee includes lunch; it will be waived for members of the Bryn Mawr faculty and staff who lunch elsewhere. Students are welcome to be the Active Minds presentation free of rush. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2007-09-13/dangerous.shtml
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