{"id":30,"date":"2022-08-31T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/chapter\/accepting-the-students-right-to-say-no\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T08:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:55:56","slug":"accepting-the-students-right-to-say-no","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/chapter\/accepting-the-students-right-to-say-no\/","title":{"raw":"Accepting the Student\u2019s Right to Say No","rendered":"Accepting the Student\u2019s Right to Say No"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"accepting-the-student\u2019s-right-to-say-no\">\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">Except in certain life-threatening situations (suicidal intent, violence towards others), the choice of whether to seek professional help at Counselling Services is completely up to that individual. If a distressed student remains adamant about not seeking counselling, you need to accept the student\u2019s decision.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"margin-left: 0pt;text-indent: 0pt\">If you are quite concerned about such a student, consult with Counselling Services. The counsellor could suggest alternative ways of approaching the student, to help you more effectively intervene on the student\u2019s behalf, or confirm that you have done all that you could do.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"accepting-the-student\u2019s-right-to-say-no\">\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">Except in certain life-threatening situations (suicidal intent, violence towards others), the choice of whether to seek professional help at Counselling Services is completely up to that individual. If a distressed student remains adamant about not seeking counselling, you need to accept the student\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"margin-left: 0pt;text-indent: 0pt\">If you are quite concerned about such a student, consult with Counselling Services. The counsellor could suggest alternative ways of approaching the student, to help you more effectively intervene on the student\u2019s behalf, or confirm that you have done all that you could do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"menu_order":11,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-30","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/30\/revisions\/58"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/30\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/wellbeingguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}