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- Loner, more withdrawn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
Memphis:
Counselors at SASSI: 901.448.5056
or UHS: 901.448.5630
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
- 901.448.5056
- careteam@uthsc.edu
- #takecare after hours line: 901.690.CARE
or UHS: 901.448.5630
Disruptive Behaviors
- Highly troublesome behavior
- Loss of contact with reality
- Stalking behaviors
- Overtly suicidal/homicidal throughts 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
- SASSI CARE Team:
901.448.5056
careteam@uthsc.edu - #takecare after hours line: 901.690.2273