The document provides information about counseling services available at the Center for Student Success. It discusses what counseling is, the demand for counseling among the general population and students. It outlines the scope of services offered, including individual and group counseling, workshops, and crisis intervention. Counseling relationships are built on principles of permission to speak freely, respect for differences, confidentiality, and affirmation. Appointments can be made Monday through Friday between 4:15pm and 6:15pm by visiting in person, email, or phone. Counseling can help address issues like mental health problems, stress, and adjustment difficulties by providing a supportive environment for discussion and developing solutions.

1. COUNSELING SERVICES
Center For Student Success
Yelena Sardaryan, MPH, MA

2.  What is Counseling?
 What is the demand for Counseling: General
population/Students
 What is Counseling Relationships about?
 What is Confidentiality
 Scope of Counseling Services
 Working Hours/Making appointments
 Small exercises

3.  When someone invites and allows another person to enter
into a particular kind of relationship with them.
 Permission to speak
 Respect for difference
 Confidentiality
 Affirmation

5.  Resolution
 Learning
 Social Inclusion

6.  Nearly half of American households have had someone seek
mental health treatment
 91 %--said they would likely consult or recommend a
mental health professional if they or a family member were
experiencing a problem.
 87% pointed to lack of insurance coverage
 81% percent pointed to cost concerns.
 20% STIGMA is "a very important reason not to seek help"
from a mental health professional.
 59 million people have received mental health treatment in
the past two years, and that 80% have found it effective

9.  19% reported experiencing a Verbal Threat within the last 12
months.
 47% felt things were Hopeless within the past 12 months
 55% feeling very Lonely within the past 12 months.
 11% seriously considering Suicide within the past 12 months;
1.8% have attempted suicide.
 45% that their academics have been Traumatic
 42% report that their Finances Have Been Traumatic
 58% experiencing more than average or tremendous Stress
 22% Sleep Difficulties affected their individual academic
performance within the past 12 months
*American College Health Association - National College Health Assessment II (ACHA-NCHA II),2015

11.  Loss
 Death
 Trauma
 Domestic
violence
 Displacement
 Stress
 Stigmatization
 Sexual abuse
and ets
Mental Health
problems
• Fear
• Sadness
• Loneliness
• Guilt
• Aggression
• Somatic
complaints
• Sexual difficulties
• Substance abuse

12.  Changes in Mood and Behavior
 Detachment from social networking
 Traumatic Changes in life relationships
 Drug and alcohol abuse
 Physical concerns
 Adjustment difficulties
 ON-LINE communication versus OFF-LINE

13.  Negative thought and feeling will rise/may feel
worse in some way
 Discussion of your concerns
 Identify ways of finding your own solutions to
problems
 Counselor acknowledges your feelings and
thoughts
 Develop counseling plan
 Resolve-Learn-Social Inclusion

14.  Good Counselor listens without judging or
criticizing
 Good Counselor listens with empathy
 Counselor should never tell you what to do

15. - Ordering, commanding, and pressuring
-Warning and threatening
- Giving advice or providing solutions (when this is not
necessary)
- Moralizing and labeling
- Disagreeing, judging, and criticizing
- Instruction and evaluation
- Arguing
- Openly showing disbelief
- Lack of interest or not responding
- Educating (when not appropriate)

16.  INDIVIDUAL COUSELING
 GROUP COUSELING
 WORKSHOPS
 WELLNESS SESSIONS
 CRISIS INTERVENTION
 REFFERALS

17.  Personal information
 History of the sessions
 Content of the sessions, including concerns
 NO ONE, including Center for Student Success, parents,
AUA staff and faculty, NO ONE,
• Unless
 Danger to himself/herself
 Suicidal thoughts
 Child abuse
 Abuse of a vulnerable adult

18.  Monday through Friday,
 04:15pm-06:15pm
 Contact
• in person (Main Building, room 418M),
• by e-mail (Counselingservices@aua.am)
• by phone (SOON )

19.  Counseling is often an effective way of dealing with
psychosocial and emotional problems.
 Behavior is often an open expression of feelings. In
order to change problematic behavior, counseling
requires dealing with feelings.
 Psychological health is an important part of survival,
protection, and general development.
 Counseling encourages and assists to find a solution for
his/her problem/situation.