The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1983 Page: 4 of 8
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Psychology clinic offers
private, group counseling!
Editor’s Note: The following is the fourth in a series
of news features detailing counseling services avail-
able to NT students, faculty and staff. These serv-
ices are frequently provided free of charge or on a
sliding scale of charges, gauged against ability to
pay.
tional help is needed, the supervisor can participate
in the session, Burke said.
By CATHY BRENNAN
Special Writer
The NT Psychology Clinic offers a variety of coun-
seling services to NT students and residents of Denton,
Dallas and Fort Worth.
Dr. Angela Burke, director of the clinic, said “We
provide individual and group counseling, clinical psy-
chotherapy and behavioral treatment on a sliding-scale
fee basis.”
She said there is no charge for the initial visit, but
that fees for subsequent sessions will be established
by the therapist and the supervisor.
Fees for services begin at $5 per hour. The serv-
ices include counseling, disability evaluations, psy-
chological evaluations and testing. She said, “How-
ever, a person who cannot afford the $5 fee will be
charged less or not at all.”
"THERE IS ALWAYS a licensed psychologist
and graduate student on duty in the clinic in case of
emergency,” Burke said. Dr. Rafael Toledo of the
psychology faculty is a licensed physician and is avail-
able for consultation on related medical problems.
Persons interested in obtaining help with a prob-
lem can call the clinic during regular clinic hours
for an appointment. Burke said an appointment is
not always necessary, and drop-ins are welcome.
Burke said the clinic, which has been in operation
since 1972, averages between 200 to 250 cases per
semester. Individual counseling sessions are usually
one hour and group sessions are between one and
one-half to two hours in length, depending on the
nature of the group.
Burke said the clinic has held specialty groups in
the past, such as stress management, support groups,
women’s groups, smoking and weight control groups
and incest victims’ groups.
“OUR CLIENTS RANGE in age from 4 to 62.
We are here to serve the community and we serve a
variety of individuals on campus,” Burke said.
“A lot of people are not comfortable going to a
psychologist, so we try to correct that as best we
can. We treat all kinds of living problems. We also
help people with more serious problems.
“Solving a problem depends to a large exent on
the timing. At one point in your life, something may
not bother you. At another point, it will. If an indi-
vidual perceives a situation as a problem, then that
is the criteria we use,” Burke said.
The clinic staff is comprised of NT psychology
graduate students and psychology faculty members.
The students are divided into teams of usually four
or five members, and are supervised by a licensed
psychologist.
The students conduct the actual sessions. If addi-
“THE THERAPIST WILL check around to see
if there is enough interest to form a particular group,
and if so, set it up. In the past, we have advertised
that we are forming a particular group.
“The incest group was such an example. We try
to limit the group to between five and eight people.
We look at the groups as support groups, and if you
go beyond that number, people won’t get to know
each other.”
She said when a client has a medical problem in
conjunction with a psychological problem, the ther-
apist will recommend the client see his doctor first.
Then the therapist will work in conjunction with the
physician or psychiatrist.
The clinic obtains clients from a variety of sources
and from self-referrals. It receives referrals from phy-
sicians, the Texas Rehabilitation Commission, the
Department of Mental Health and Mental Retarda-
tion and the courts.
The clinic is located in Terril Hall 225A. The tel-
ephone number is 565-2631.
Fines, inquiry threaten
Comanche Peak opening
FORT WORTH (AP)—Threats of a fine and fed-
eral investigation could further delay commercial op-
eration of the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant,
already three years behind schedule and four times
its original cost.
Utility officials say the plant, under construction
near Glen Rose, already is considerably different from
the one they envisioned in 1972.
The changes primarily stem from new regulatory
requirements that followed the 1979 Three Mile Is-
land accident in Pennsylvania and have helped swell
the plant's cost to $3.44 billion, four times the orig-
inal estimate.
Texas Electric Service Co. officials decline to es-
timate how much consumers’ bills might rise if the
plant does not go on-line as scheduled next year.
pany that sold nuclear power plant pumps, will be
asked to help obtain an expanded investigation through
direct contacts and the assistance of two Washington-
based public interest groups, the Government Account-
ability Project and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
When NRC inspectors from Washington last came
to Texas in 1979, they issued a $100,000 fine against
HL&P and issued stop-work orders, which added an
estimated six months to construction at the South
Texas Nuclear Project. The general contractor, Brown
& Root, later was replaced.
Brown & Root also is general contractor at
Comanche Peak but does not have architectural and
design control as it did at the South Texas plant.
RENEWED FEARS THAT the plant’s opening
will be delayed stem from two pieces of bad news
last week, from the Arlington office of the federal
Nuclear Regulatory Commission and from Citizens
Associated for Sound Energy, a vocal opponent of
the plant.
The local NRC proposed a $40,000 penalty against
Texas Utilities Generating Co., the first of its kind
for the plant’s operator. The proposed punishment
stems from claims of a former quality control inspec-
tor that he was fired for doing his job too thoroughly.
Already, CASE members doubt the utilities financ-
ing the $3.44 billion plant will meet their December
fuel loading date, which was set when they could
not meet a September date.
CASE president Juanita Ellis said the group will
seek the help of U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, a Mas-
sachusetts Democrat who chairs a House subcommit-
tee that oversees the nuclear power industry.
SHE SAID MARKEY, who two years ago
triggered an NRC investigation of a Vermont com-
NRC SPOKESMAN Clyde Wisner of the Ar-
lington office said a Washington inspection team would
be more likely to find construction defects than re-
gional inspectors because they would be more thor-
ough and spend more time in "spot checks.”
CASE members believe "only the tip of a very
large iceberg” has been revealed in past investiga-
tions at Comanche Peak. Ellis said. She said a full-
scale review would show how drugs and morale prob-
lems have affected the quality of design and con-
struction and the extent to which workers, supervisors
and quality control inspectors are discouraged from
doing their jobs thoroughly.
CASE contends the Arlington NRC office has
shirked its regulatory duties and failed to properly
apply and enforce its own regulations. Ellis said CASE
witnesses often have been the ones to point out ma-
jor flaws in design and construction, not NRC
witnesses.
“Somebody, somewhere is going to have to re-
ally look at that plant, and we don’t think it has
been done yet,” said Ellis. “The truth is going to
come out. Even if they have to be dragged scream-
ing and yelling all the way.”
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS.
^ STUDENT ORGANIZATION PRESIDENTS
Register your organization with
the Activities & Organization Office
4th Floor Union
Student organizations must register with
the Activities & Organizations Office to function
on campus
^ Deadline: Friday, September 30
fntsu
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The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1983, newspaper, September 8, 1983; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth722929/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.