P.B.H. Advisors Aid Students with Their Difficulties

Student counseling carried on by Phillips Brooks House has, according to Norris P. Swett '37, assistant graduate secretary of P. B. H., given more than fifty students aid in solving problems of social adjustment since September.

Swett has grouped the problems on which he has been consulted into eight categories--information, personality, marriage, anxiety, adjustment to college, anomie, courses, financial, vocational bewilderment, and unclassified.

Bureau of Supervision Helps

Last year a large number of the students who sought aid from the student counselors had difficulty with their work. "But this year," Swett stated, "their problems have been cleared up by the newly-instituted Bureau of Supervision. These problems have been dealt with by Stanley C. Salmen '36, head of the Bureau of Supervision, in much the same manner used formerly by the counselors."

Walter Fleming, psychiatrist in the Hygiene Department, said of the work of the counselors, "In most instances adequate treatment need not be a very complicated procedure. Sometimes just the taking of a careful history, the clear formulation of a previously obscure problem, coupled with kindly authoritative reassurance, the simplest form of psychotherapy, and all taking place in two or three interviews, are enough to relieve completely very disturbing symptoms."

Most of the students consulting the counselors this year have been troubled with problems of vocational guidance.