CNN.com - College counselors adapt to diverse, reluctant students - Dec 23, 2005: "ITHACA, New York (AP) -- Janie Cisneros was having a crisis and needed to talk to a counselor. But there would be no embarrassing or intimidating visit to the campus clinic.
Instead, Sigrid Frandsen-Pechenik took Cisneros to the mall, where they had coffee and talked in English and Spanish.
It was not the usual approach to mental health counseling. But as campuses become more diverse, colleges are finding the old ways don't always work.
There are language barriers and cultural stigmas that equate mental health problems with being weak or crazy. There are the pressures of immigrant families who send their children to college and do not expect to see them fail.
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