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All interaction with the student counseling Center is kept strictly confidential, in all aspects of service. The Student counseling Center maintains records describing your problem history, symptoms, diagnostic impressions, process notes, and future plans and this information is private and no one has access to them except the staff of the SCC. Counseling record is NOT part of the student's academic file. Your written permission is required before any information about your contact with SCC is released to anyone outside SCC. This means if your friend, parent, or professor, etc., calls us, we cannot even acknowledge that we know of you.
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However, there are four situations when we are required to release information without permission:
- If you present an imminent risk of serious injury to yourself. In this case, the counselor would take action to assure your safety, releasing only the information needed to do this and only to the official staff who have a “need to know” to protect the safety of students.
- If you threaten serious harm to another person. Again, we would have to take action to protect the other person, releasing only the information necessary to assure the person’s safety.
- If you are involved in a court or police proceeding and a request is made for information about your counseling.
- If you filed a complaint against your counselor, the administration has the authority to request confidential counseling information from the SCC relevant to that complaint.
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