Can my friend be kicked out for this?

[AnkaraTheFallen]

Your friend has my sympathies...I've been through some similar things and all I can say is talk to her about it and try to make sure she goes to get some real help.... being threatened really doesn't help and usually just makes the person carry on but more secretly about it and makes them worried to talk to anyone about it, your schools psychologist should probably be fired for this.

 

[Communist partisan]

Okay, this is actually my friend, not just some person I've made up, as to remain anonymous.

Anyway. So this friend of mine, (Let's call her JenniferFirst name I could think of) is extremely depressed, to the point of anorexia and self harm. To make a long story short, the high school we both attend found out about this, and has sent her to the school psychologist.

Except the school psychologist isn't helping her. All she has done is threaten Jennifer with expulsion if she continues to starve herself, or cut herself. Not a single word of help. Just threats.

I'm honestly really concerned about this. Jennifer is terrified of expulsion, and while she has stopped her self destructive behaviours, she hasn't stopped thinking these thoughts. She's still borderline suicidal, and getting worse thanks to this threat hanging over her.

So I need to know. Can she actually be kicked out? We both live in Western Australia, and attend a Public school.

EDIT: I probably should have mentioned that she was seeing a pysch beforehand, of her own free will. She wants help, but is simply beimg terrified by the psych. Can we simply assume that Jennifer is telling the truth here, and base our answers on that?

That's illegal, at least in Sweden (the threats)

also, why do you bother, isn't it her own problem?

 

[Brandon237]

Our public school is in a third world country and they have a whole damn Counselling department! So if they did not help and expelled her, then I would say that a newspaper article or 22 about the school would be in order. To expel and threaten a suicidal student is... wrong... on so many levels.

I wish "Jennifer" All the best luck, I know someone who was suicidal and is getting counselling now, and so far it is helping them, so hopefully she can find a good counsellor herself.

 

[PurplePlatypus]

A psychologist/counsellor should be someone a person is able to talk to comfortably and without fear. Being able to communicate seems the most important thing or nothing else can be done. These threats seem counter productive to that and might be causing harm? Either way she needs to stop going there and hopefully find a better counsellor.