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Individual Counseling

In some cases, a student might benefit most from talking to a counselor once a week in individual sessions. Sessions are usually forty to fifty minutes long and are a time for a counselor and a student to work together on the student's problem or concern. Since the Counseling Center tries to serve as many students as possible, we have a twelve-session annual limit for individual counseling.  Students may want to discuss this session limit and their counseling needs with their counselor.

Group Counseling

Students often benefit most from sharing information, experiences, and support with students with similar concerns. Every semester the center offers Interpersonal Understanding Groups for students who wish to increase self-awareness and enhance personal relationships.

Current Groups:

• Women's Support Groups 
• Graduate Student Support Group
• Hope and Healing (Sexual Assault)
• Family Issues Group
• Interpersonal Group

Groups are facilitated or supervised by Counseling Center faculty psychologists. They are generally small (five-ten members) and meet weekly. Students participating in groups need to commit to regular attendance.

Consultation

Counseling Center faculty members are available to consult with all members of the IUP community. We can assist with group and interpersonal communication, students in crisis, student concerns, program planning, and a number of other concerns and issues. In addition, our faculty members assist people who are friends of students with emotional concerns.

! NEW! Course

Each fall and spring semester the Counseling Center offers a one-credit, academic course entitled: Life Skills: Improving your Social and Emotional Intelligence.  The course is taught by Dr. Kim Weiner.   

!NEW! Workshops for Faculty and Staff

Counseling Center faculty provide workshops to train faculty and staff in identifying, intervening and referring students who appear to be in distress for any number of reasons. These workshops can be made available to any department which requests them. We will be willing to arrange the workshop during a regular departmental faculty meeting time, if given enough advance notice. This workshop with discussion lasts about one hour.  

If you need help now, check out the following link. If you have questions about what you read, please call the IUP Counseling Center, (724) 357-2621.

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How to Help a Student in Distress (Slide Show - Click on slide to progress show, not the white arrow)