Confidentiality and Eligibility for Counseling and Psychological Services
Counseling Confidentiality
United States confidentiality and privacy laws for mental health legislate the strictest enforcement of client-therapist confidentiality. Congruent with professional ethical standards, counseling and psychological services are strictly confidential. Use of counseling and psychological services via NU-Q Counseling and Wellness is in no way indicated on the student's academic transcript and counseling records are kept separately from the student's educational and/or medical records. No one outside of Counseling and Wellness may receive information about a student's counseling without the student's written permission except under rare circumstances related to safety and welfare, or where regulated by law.
Counseling and Wellness clinical staff are permitted to receive information from staff, faculty, and concerned others about students of concern but cannot provide information to these constituents unless written consent has been provided by the student or, in rare circumstances, related to safety and welfare, as regulated by law. Students who wish confidential information regarding the counseling and psychological services they have received to be shared with others must provide written consent via an authorization to release information form. If you are referred for counseling as a condition of an agreement, for example with the Dean of Students or within your academic department, and want information communicated to them, including verifying your attendance, you will have to sign an Authorization for Release of Information Form to have any information provided to the person who referred you.
eligibility for Counseling and psychological services
NU-Q students enrolled full time or enrolled part time in their last semester are eligible to be considered for NU-Q Counseling and Wellness counseling and psychological services. During the summer sessions and the time between fall and spring semesters (i.e., intercession), non-enrolled students may access counseling/coaching services if they are a former student who is pre-registered for the upcoming semester or they are a current student enrolled in the previous and upcoming semesters.
NU-Q CW provides short-term counseling/coaching and crisis intervention services. These services are intended to assist students with typical developmental issues and challenges, as opposed to providing long-term intensive psychotherapy. Eligible students may have access to 15 sessions during an academic year. Short term counseling is not appropriate for all concerns. One of the purposes of the initial care plan meeting is to determine if the client's concerns are best served by NU-Q CW or another on or off campus service. NU-Q CW can provide referral assistance for students desiring longer-term counseling.
If you are arriving at NU-Q with a current mental health diagnosis, treatment plans and/or previous mental health hospitalization(s), please discuss the continuity of your treatment with your current care provider and arrange for services in the Qatar community prior to your arrival at NU-Q. Counseling and Wellness has identified a variety community resources which are located on our website. Service providers are listed as a resource and not an endorsement by NU-Q.
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