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Counseling Center Services
- Brief Individual or Couples Therapy
Brief individual or couples therapy is available to assist students with their personal, educational, interpersonal, and social concerns. Acute psychological and emotional distress, even when temporary, can seriously impair the academic performance of students and interfere with the realization of their potential. The ultimate goal of counseling is to increase the ability of individuals to resolve their own concerns as they arise. Examples of common student concerns are as follows: anxiety, depression, sexual abuse, relationship difficulties, personality and eating disorders.
In group therapy, people meet face-to-face with one or more trained group therapists and talk about what's troubling them. Members give feedback to each other by expressing their own feelings about what someone says or does. This interaction gives group members an opportunity to try out new ways of behaving and to learn more about the way they interact with others. Both general and specialized groups are offered.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Intervention, Consultation and Referral
The Anxious Student
The Suspicious Student
The Depressed Student
The Suicidal Student
The Student in Poor Contact with Reality
The Student Under the Influence
Violence and the Verbally Aggressive Student
Departmental Safety Plan
Counseling Center Services
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The Counseling Center staff provide immediate services to individuals in crisis, use knowledge of campus and community resources to make appropriate referrals, and when necessary, facilitate the hospitalization of students. In addition, the Counseling Center has the responsibility of assisting the campus with the psychological needs stemming from any significant disaster or traumatic event.
Biofeedback training is often used as an adjunct to personal counseling for stress-related symptoms such as tension and migraine headaches, test anxiety, and sleep disorders. Biofeedback involves monitoring psycho- physiological processes, which are normally outside of the individual's awareness, then presenting the data to the individual in the form of an auditory or visual signal. The individual's task is to modify the signal, thus changing the physiological function.
Counseling Center staff provide telephone and in-person consultation to faculty, staff, students, and parents who are concerned about the welfare of students, who wish information about how to make a referral, or who would like to discuss or learn about psychologically-related situations or material.
Psychological testing is used as part of the counseling process to assist with the diagnosis and understanding of client concerns. Vocational testing helps to assess what people do well, what they might be interested in doing, and what may lead to long-range career satisfaction. In addition, the Counseling Center provides a service to UCR students and area residents by serving as a national test center, supervising the administration of national and state qualifying examinations such as MCAT, LSAT, PRAXIS, and MAT.
- Developmental and Outreach Programs
Programming is offered throughout the year to enhance the personal development of students, to increase knowledge about individual and campus well-being, and to promote a healthy campus environment.
- Training of Student Paraprofessionals
Counseling Center psychologists provide training to several student paraprofessional groups. Paraprofessionals receive training on basic helping, communication, and problem-solving skills.
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