Personal counseling is provided to students who need and seek assistance in resolving personal issues that interfere with school. Short-term counseling may be provided through personal counseling appointments in the counseling center and/or student health center and/or referring students to appropriate community resources.
Personal counseling is short-term and is related to success in college. It may deal with topics such as:
- Interpersonal communication
- Stress management
- Clarification and resolution of specific problems related to academic success
- Relationship issues (problems with parents, spouses/significant others, divorce, etc.)
- Dealing with Grief or illness
- Dealing with feelings that arise because of lack of financial or emotional support.
Personal counseling may also take the form of:
- Motivational support
- Identification of special needs
- Building self-esteem and sound decision-making skills
- Referral to off-campus or on-campus resources
- Crisis Intervention
- Assisting students with personal, family, and other issues that may affect their educational progress.
- Offering support to students with a respect and understanding for their backgrounds, cultural values, gender, communication styles, abilities, and limitations.
- Allow students to openly express any feelings, thoughts, reactions, and attitudes that are present.
- Assist in the process for students' to develop competence, manage emotions, move through autonomy toward interdependence, develop mature interpersonal relationships, establish identity, develop purpose, and integrity.
- Encourage students to replace irrational beliefs with something more realistic, and reasonable so they do not sabotage the core self.
- Enhance students' self-esteem, and empower them in a healthy way to take ownership of their life style.
- Empower each student to become more responsible for their academic outcome, and be aware of how the role each student engage will impact his or her future.
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