Self-Help Info

Self-help brochures are available in The Wellness Center.   Students are encouraged to browse through what is available and take what is helpful.

A variety of self-help brochures have been placed on the H-SC website.  Listed below are links to these sources of information: 

• Assertive Behavior 
• Coping with Death, Loss, and Grief 
• Developmental Tasks for College Students 
• Sleep Inducing Techniques 
• Stress Information 
• Stress Periods for Students 
• Test Anxiety

An Alcohol Use Self-Screening is available on-line.  If you consume alcoholic beverages, it's important to know whether your drinking patterns are safe, risky or harmful. This site can help you find out.

The Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection is an on-line collection of self-help brochures and handouts that have been developed by college and university counseling centers across the country.  These "virtual pamphlets" are cover a vast array of developmental and mental health issues of particular interest to college students.  Thanks go to the University of Chicago's Counseling and Student Resource Center for developing this collection of virtual pamphlet links.

Self-Help Brochures from University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Counseling Center.  Included here are online texts of brochures on:

• Addictive Relationships
• Adult Children of Alcoholics
• Assertiveness
• Coming Out
• Committed Relationships and School
• Dissertation Success Strategies
• Experiencing and Expressing Emotions
• For Loved Ones of Sexual Assault/Abuse Survivors
• Grief and Loss
• Loneliness
• Maybe I have an Eating Problem
• Overcoming Procrastination
• Perfectionism
• Self-Confidence
• Stress Management
• Suicide Prevention
• Surviving Child Sexual Abuse
• Test Anxiety
• Time Management
• Understanding Depression
• Understanding Dysfunctional Relationship Patterns in Your Family

Given the importance of gender at an all-male college, the Counseling Center has developed a page of links to information about the impact of gender on men's lives.  There is information about masculine identities and activities, with consideration to the role of men as sons, husbands, fathers, friends, athletes, and workers.

The Counseling Center has developed a page of links to other on-line self-help resources that will be of interest to those who want information about developmental and mental health issues relevant to college students.