Determining Appropriate Resources
Concerning Behaviors
- Anxious/depressed/overwhelmed
- Significant difficulty or anxiety with demands of college/program
- Pattern of relationship problems
- Loner, more withdrawn
- Excessive absence
- Decline in health, hygiene, appearance, or weight
- Falling asleep in class
- Change in pattern of interaction
- Students who are overly nervous, tearful or tense
- Unable to make decisions
Contact
Student Counseling Services during working hours: 901.448.5056
Student Counseling Services after-hours Emergency number: 901.690.2273
If you are a student, faculty member, staff, or parent who would like to speak with a CARE Team for guidance with a student concern or crisis, please call the CARE phone at 901.448.CARE. This line is monitored 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
Resources for students at other locations
Distressing Behaviors
- Repeated requests for special consideration
- Extreme disorganization
- Written or verbal expression of violence or hopelessness
- Exaggerated or disproportionate response to grades or evaluations
- Angry outbursts, yelling, aggressive comments
- Cuts, bruises or burns
- Smell of alcohol, abuse of drugs
- Mental health history related to dangerousness
- Recent police contact
- Acting out
- Expressionless face
- Victim/martyr self concept
- Noncompliance/disciplinary problems
- Statements of distress
- Lack of responses to outreach
- Lack of resources causing distress
Contact
Student Counseling Services during working hours: 901.448.5056
Student Counseling Services after-hours Emergency number: 901.690.2273
If you are a student, faculty member, staff, or parent who would like to speak with a CARE Team for guidance with a student concern or crisis, please call the CARE phone at 901.448.CARE. This line is monitored 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
Disruptive Behaviors
- Highly troublesome behavior
- Loss of contact with reality
- Stalking behaviors
- Overtly suicidal/homicidal or actions
- Written or verbal to hard to self or others
- Inability to communicate clearly
- Violence or cruelty
- Paranoia
- Fascination with weapons or unusual interest in police, military, terrorist activities or materials.
- Have not heard from the student, welfare check needed to ensure safety on or off campus
Contact
UTHSC Campus Police: 901.448.4444
Student Counseling Services during working hours: 901.448.5056
Student Counseling Services after-hours Emergency number: 901.690.2273