1997 Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 15-30
This paper was aimed to discuss a few points that may prove useful for foreign student counseling at a foreign student dormitory, from a view point of community psychology. Taking advantage of the introduction of tutor system (8 student tutors and 3 on-sight staff members (i.e. domitory employees) live in the dormitory to give support to foreign students) two years ago, the authors/counselors have changed the quality of counseling from ‘a passive approach’ in which only counselors give consultation to foreign students to ‘an active one’ in which counselors consult them with utilizing other human resources such as student tutors, staff members, and security guards, etc.
To put it concretely, the following steps have been taken:(1) introducing various programs (interviews, groupwork,lectures, and case study, etc) which encourage co-operation between student tutors and counselors, (2) carrying out consultation with the management of the foreign student domitory, (3) adopting a preventive approach for the psychological well-being of foreign students such as group interviews and group relaxation exercises utilizing body movement and expressions.
In conclusion, the authors claim following: (1) to make a support network for foreign students accessiblly, through more frequent and smoother communication among the parties (i.e. counselors, student tutors, staff members, etc), (2) to establish a model for foreign student counseling based on community psychology.
