"age 2 -The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, March 16, 1988 Counselor Social worker specializes in eating disorders Continued from Page 1 the University's Mental Health Scr- vice, which merged with Counseling Services in the Michigan Union in 1976. She was a full time staff member at the program until last year, when she reduced her schedule to part time hours. THE COUNSELING Services Office is specifically targeted for short-term treatment. Tom Morson, Senior Social Worker and Coordina- tor. of Outreach and Consultation, said an assessment is made on the student's first appointment. He said ;if a student needs more than 12 vis- its, the office refers them to another service outside the University. Partlow-Sech said the average student client sees her for six visits. Drawbacks to her work occur .when she is unable to provide the help a client needs, Partlow-Sech ,said. "It's somebody who is very ,distressed, needs long term care, and has no money... that presents the most difficult thing for me. Fortu- nately we don't see many... and stu- dents are very resilient." She earned her Masters degree in Clinical Social Work at the Univer- sity, after receiving an undergraduate degree in social work from the Uni- versity of Missouri. A summer job as a secretary in a social services of- fice led her to consider the profes- sion. "I changed my major and went ,.r. a" she , -d. "I identified with it almost immediately." Partlow-Sech said she recognizes her work with students who have eating disorders as "a special inter- est" which developed purely by acci- dent. "WE HAD a woman psychia- trist here who worked part time and had a lot of women she was seeing who she put in a group," Partlow- Sech explained. "She leftand she kept nagging at me to take the group over. I met them, and she said, 'Here's Mrs. Sech,' and walked out. We looked at each other... and de- cided to stay together." Partlow-Sech said that at the time she began working with this group of female students, many of their concerns were with weight prob- lems. "It was at the same time that anorexia and bulimia broke through on the scene as recognizable and di- agnosable problems." Eating disorders affect between five and 30 percent of the Univer- sity's student population at any given time, Partlow-Sech said. "My own thought is a lot of people have eating disorders who never seek treatment. I've seen it all the way from people who just started to peo- ple who have been doing it for years, since junior high." ALTHOUGH bulimia and anorexia are disorders that affect mostly women, Partlow-Sech said that on rare occasions they can affect men. "I have seen only one (male client)," she said. "But other people. have seen men, and at 'U' Hospital I understand that they have seen sev- eral." Partlow-Sech also cites an 'I think she has made an outstanding contribution to the lives of innumerable students.' - Hal Korn, director of Counseling Services "overall reluctance of men to seek treatment." Partlow-Sech said women are es- pecially likely to develop eating dis- orders because of societal pressures - the image of the perfect, slim, glamorous woman is everywhere. "It's very common for women to be very concerned about their image, their body size... it's almost a uni- versal concern," she said. "Whether that goes on to a true eating disorder is hard to determine." In the years Partlow-Sech has spent working with students she said she has seen a wide range of prob- lems, most of which she attributes to college pressure. "In four years they must do well in school, leave home, decide on a career, make friends and relationships," she ex- plained. "It's an enormously pres- sured, anxious time." HOWEVER, she stressed that in general, students have continued to come to her with the same types of problems over the years, mostly dealing with anxiety, depression, and relationship crises. For Partlow-Sech, the greatest rewards of her profession come as a result of working with student clients. "I really like working with stu- dents. They are bright and insightful, and here we can offer them an unbi- ased opinionfrom someone who's not emotionally involved with their lives," she said. In past years, Partlow-Sech and her program have spoken with stu- dents in the residence halls about eating disorders and where they can go for help. She has also worked with counseling interns in the Uni- versity's graduate program, units around the community, and on some occasions has even provided students with materials for writing papers. This past fall she served on Counseling Services' Professional Education Committee. Occasionally the pressures of her busy schedule have become difficult to manage. Last January, Partlow- Sech took a break for a month in California. "You can't be here with- out being very involved," she says. "I think that's true for everyone on staff." GE E TITI! GUAPEVI$ I . The Personal Column MICHIGAN DAILY CLASSIFIED ADS HEALTH & FITNESS a-. s Free Pregnancy Testing SFreeCounseling * Gynecology * Birth Control * Abortion Health Care Clinic of Ann Arbor 2512 Carpenter " 971-1970 What's (Happening Recreational Sports " FOR EXTRA FUN, CAMARADERIE, AND PHYSICAL FITNESS -- JOIN A SPORT CLUB! Clubs include most martial arts, bicycling, racquetball, sailing, skiing, soccer, and many, many more. 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Civilians join Panama unrest PANAMA CITY, Panama - Medical workers hurled firebombs at police outside a hospital yesterday, joining a wave of public employees rallying against the cash-strapped government of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega. Hundreds of civil servants took to the streets to demand their paychecks, and riot squads responded with tear gas, water cannons, and shotguns loaded with birdshot. At least a dozen were injured. Also yesterday, Panama ordered Terrence Kneebone, director of the U.S. Information Service here, to leave the country within 48 hours, a U.S. Embassy source said. The United States said it would ignore the directive. The Reagan administration hopes the government's inability to pay its workers will bring down the Noriega, the military chief who controls the government. Gorbachev visits Yugoslavia BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday toured a factory that exports industrial robots to the United States and the Soviet Union, and he met with workers who run the plant under Yugoslavia's local-management system. The reform-minded Soviet leader is on a five-day visit to Yugoslavia, getting his first look at this independent communist country's less cen- tralized economy. soviet officials said Gorbachev was "very satisfied" with his first two days of talks with Yugoslav leaders and seeks ways of developing closer relations with the country Moscow once denounced for "revisionist" policies. NASA reports more ozone loss WASHINGTON - High-altitude ozone, which protects humans from skin cancer, shows an unexplained thinning of about 2.3 percent since 1969 over mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, an area that includes most of the United States, NASA scientists said yesterday. 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Marquette spent $1 million to renovate a public swimming pool because of what the birds had left behind. Officials said the fowl also had fouled parks and athletic fields with their droppings. Officials already have tried trapping, fireworks, and cannon shots, without much success. "We'll be selective," said John Turausky, director of the city Parks and Recreation Department. "Geese are extremely intelligent animals, and when they see the area is not a healthy one for them, we hope they'll leave." Turausky said a typical full-grown Canada goose weighs 8 to 10 pounds, has a three-foot wing span "and leaves about one-third of a pound of droppings a day." If you see news happen, call 76-DAILY. Gephardt Continued from Page 1 He told the predominantly blue collar audience that the United States is losing its economic strength. He stressed repeatedly the importance of Considering Abortion? Free Pregnancy Test Completely Confidential Pregnancy Counseling Center 529 N. 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