2012 Volume 15 Issue 2 Pages 85-98
The Great East Japan Earthquake did enormous damage to our university. We, the university counseling center staff investigated what was needed to redesign and improve the student support system and practiced various activities. Here, the activities of student counseling services for approximately two months after the earthquake are reported and the meaning of these activities and problems that were encountered are discussed from the perspective of “Providing support for campus community faced crises.” The early support conducted with students and teachers in the university were divided into four periods and they were examined from the perspective of relationships with social and living conditions, as well as from the perspective of university management Also, the support that was provided was classified into four groups, according to its objective and content It was indicated that an approach to the whole campus community, which was named the “Yui” project, contributed to recovery of various relationships from the crises, the creation of new relationships, and the construction of multilayered relationships in the university. Furthermore, it is suggested that developing an attitude of “mutual appreciation and cooperative creation” among the staff resulted in a basic attitude conducive to providing support.
