The predicament and ethical considerations of helping students with mental disorders in college psychological counseling
10.12026/j.issn.1001-8565.2025.06.13
- VernacularTitle:高校心理咨询中帮助精神障碍学生的困境与伦理思考
- Author:
Weijia ZHANG
1
;
Ya’nan ZHENG
1
Author Information
1. Humanities and Social Sciences， Gannan Medical University，Ganzhou 341000， China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
university psychological counseling;
mental disorders;
ethical thinking
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2025;38(6):765-770
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
As an important department to solve students’ daily psychological problems， the mental health counseling center in colleges and universities often results in many practical dilemmas due to the mismatch between the duty limitation and professional ability when facing the help of students with mental disorders. From the perspective of ethics， this paper discusses the difficulties in campus management， responsibility allocation and responsibility clarificationfaced by the school in dealing with student autonomy， home-school coordination， and properly settling the students returning to school. In order to alleviate ethical conflicts and provide some reference for colleges and universities to intervene and help students with mental disorders， the author tries to implement improvement measures by adhering to the concept of rehabilitation to improve autonomy， treating family members as help objects， establishing a complete system and sound regulations， and conducting joint efforts and supportive intervention assistance. This can alleviate ethical conflicts and provide certain references for the practice of colleges and universities’ intervention and assistance in dealing with students with mental disorders.
