Graduate Studies
Counseling Program Student Counseling Policy
All graduate students at the University of Notre Dame are eligible for medical benefits that provide for mental health services through the University Counseling Center (UCC). Providers on this policy are UCC staff or therapists in the South Bend community who are members of a contract panel. Community providers are only accessible via a referral from UCC. As a result, Notre Dame’s graduate student mental health benefit is only accessible via the UCC, either as actual providers or as referrers to community providers.
Counseling psychology doctoral students take a significant portion of their clinical training at the UCC, so accessing the mental health benefit through the UCC in the ordinary manner would not be strictly confidential, could be uncomfortable both for students and for UCC personnel, and it could produce dual relationships that are professionally unethical.
In recognition of these complexities, the Counseling Program faculty, students, and the UCC together have drafted a policy for accessing the ordinary graduate student mental health benefit in a way that protects confidentiality and avoids dual relationships.
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