November 15, 2002

Virtual Counseling

By SCOTT CARLSON

As campus psychologists go online, they reach more students, but may also risk lawsuits

Amy, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, thought something in her life had gone wrong, and she went to talk to a friend about it. The friend referred Amy not to a counseling center, but to a Web address that had been mentioned as part of a class orientation.

At the Web site, Amy found information about the university's counseling center, including pictures of the

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