The crisis intervention technique with potential college dropouts

In this study the experimenter used both individual counseling and manipulation of the environment to help students cope with the crisis situations that frequently arise in the lives of freshman men. In a controlled experiment using students who had ranked in the lower 40 percent of their secondary school graduating classes, it was shown that the use of the crisis intervention technique was effective both in reducing the number of dropouts and in improving the academic performance of the experimental group. A follow-up study showed that the method seemed to be helpful even to those who left college prior to graduation.