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Counseling Center

The Counseling Center offers students the opportunity to attend several educational classes each semester to assist them in their personal development.   Each class addresses a specific topic.  The following classes are offered: Alcohol and Other Drug Education, Anger Management and Conflict Resolution, and Decision Making Skills. The classes typically run over the course of a month meeting weekly for 1 hour.

Anger Management Class

Course Objectives:

• Help participants understand what makes them angry
• Help participants understand their level of anger and how they cope with anger compares to their peers
• Help participants find ways to manage their anger more adaptively (e.g., using healthy peers for social support)
• Help participants establish short- and long-term goals as they relate to anger management
• Explore how cultural factors relate to participants’ anger
• Help participants find ways to deal with stress adaptively and effectively and relate this to dealing with anger
• Help participants understand the difference between aggressiveness and assertiveness

Decision Making and Critical Thinking Skills Class

Course Objectives:

• To increase students’ motivation to learn and apply elements of critical thinking to decisions they make in personal, social, and professional areas of their lives
• To enhance student learning and development by having students apply elements of critical thinking to personal, social, and professional domains of their lives
• To take the situation that led them to be in the class and learn from it in order to generalize skills to future decisions
• To explore how cultural factors relate to decision making

• Help students establish short- and long-term goals using their critical thinking skills

Alcohol and Other Drug Education Class

• Help participants understand negative consequences and costs of alcohol/drug use
• Help participants establish short- and long-term goals
• Explore familial/cultural factors as they relate to alcohol and drug use
• Help participants reflect on other ways to get their needs met other than alcohol/drug use