Behavioral Consultation Team
Charge
UC San Diego’s Behavioral Consultation Team (BCT) is defined as a multi-disciplinary team whose primary role is to work together to provide caring, preventive, and early intervention recommendations with students, faculty, staff, and non-affiliates whose behavior is highly concerning, significantly disruptive or threatening. The role of the team is to serve as a consultation team who assesses the information provided and makes recommended interventions to campus partners.
Responsibilities
The purpose of UC San Diego’s BCT is to:
- Educate the campus community about reporting procedures for individuals who display potentially violent, threatening or significantly disruptive behaviors.
- Serve as the central point of contact for individuals reporting potentially violent, threatening, or significantly disruptive behaviors.
- Provide consultation and support to faculty, staff, administration, and students in assisting individuals who display potentially violent, threatening, or significantly disruptive behaviors.
- Triage reports by identifying patterns of behaviors that may suggest the need for an intervention.
- Assess information using an established model by which all members of the BCT are trained.
- Develop a strategy for next steps with regard to safety and rights of others and to minimize the disruption to the university environment.
- Make recommendations to appropriate areas for connecting individuals with needed campus and community resources.
- Make recommendations to responsible/affected University officials on appropriate action consistent with university policy and procedure statements and with state and federal laws.
- Coordinate communication to individuals and the campus community as appropriate and necessary.
- Assess ongoing behavior of individuals who have displayed disruptive or concerning behavior to determine if additional or ongoing follow-up is necessary by appropriate areas.
- Develop policy recommendations and guidance regarding behavioral assessment for the UC San Diego community.
- Establish assessment protocols for assessing individual interventions with students as well as the effectiveness of the team.
Questions?
For consultation or questions, contact the Behavioral Consultation Team at bct@ucsd.edu<.