Confidentiality
All contacts with the Counseling Center are confidential. We will not release any information about you without your written permission. This includes parents and other family members, faculty or other university persons or anyone outside the university. Also, your contacts with the Center do not become part of your University record. There are several legal limits to the confidentiality we can provide:
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information about child abuse or neglect must be reported to the proper authorities,
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if a student is dangerous to him/herself or others, steps must be taken to protect the student or those who are in danger,
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information about abuse to the elderly must be reported and,
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if you are involved in court proceedings, your records can be subpoenaed.
A disclaimer about electronic mail:
We discourage people from contacting us via
e-mail regarding personal problems. The nature
of email is such that we can not guarantee the
confidentiality of your correspondence, nor do
we find email communications as useful as
in-depth, face to face contact. Moreover, we can
not guarantee that we will read email right away
or respond in a timely fashion.
A Division of Student Affairs
Counseling Center
Northern State University
1200 S Jay
Student Center Room 217
Aberdeen, SD 57401
(605) 626-2371
People have visited this page since August
11,2006.