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Counseling Center Services

CONSULTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
On request, staff members work with student organizations and groups to provide consultation services, such as helping to improve staff relations or provide additional skills in working with college students. Also, workshops are provided on a variety of topics. Previous topics have included stress management, date rape, eating disorders, and assertiveness training. Additional topics can be provided depending upon the needs of the requesting organization.

INDIVIDUAL/GROUP/COUPLES COUNSELING
Brief advice and counseling may be given to students who are concerned about a roommate or one of their friends. Individual and group counseling is available for both relationship and emotional problems. Individual sessions provide a place for one-to-one discussion of personal problems and possible solutions. Groups provide support and feedback from peers as well as a chance to examine and solve interpersonal problems as they actually occur. In addition, counseling is available for couples and families.

REFERRALS
While the Counseling Center tries to serve all students who seek services, this is not always possible. Clients who seek counseling will be told if and when they can be assigned to a counselor. If a counselor cannot be assigned, whoever sees the student initially will work with the student to find other sources of help. These sources of help include other agencies on campus, low-cost services in the community, or private practitioners in the community (The aforementioned services are often covered by insurance). The Counseling Center tries not to maintain a waiting list. A student is either assigned a counselor or assisted in finding another source of help.

STRESS CLINIC
Stress involves more than tense muscles. Nevertheless, effective stress management begins with bodily relaxation because it is difficult to feel or behave at ease when the body is tense. Tension points can range from tight shoulder muscles, to a rumbling stomach to grinding teeth. But it is only when tension buildup erupts via a headache or upset stomach that we finally become aware of this tension. Unfortunately, by then the physical damage has already occured. Even more important, once tenison has reached this high level, it is difficult to reduce. In the Stress Clinic, relaxation training and strategies for reducing anxiety are available for the tense or test-anxious student. Biofeedback equipment and stress management cassette tapes are on hand, also.

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