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The TAMUQ Counseling and Wellness Service promotes the process of developing a healthy lifestyle. By participating in awareness activities, educational programs, and counseling, Aggies can enhance their personal wellness with improved physical health, emotional stability, supportive relationships, spiritual growth, and academic/career satisfaction.
Services for TAMUQ students include academic skills counseling and testing, career counseling and testing, personal counseling, stress management and biofeedback, outreach programming, health promotion programming, and crisis and consultation services. Select from the menu on the left to learn more about the services offered.
February Wellness Wednesday
Revolution Health Online College Mental Health Fair
Healthy Aggies Week
"AGGIES GET WIRED: Your Introduction to Biofeedback"
For more information about biofeedback workshop
What is Wellness?
Wellness is a positive approach to life and health which facilitates an individual's growth and performance. The wellness model integrates all dimensions of the whole person: physical, emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, and occupational. Click on the link above to learn more about each dimension.
What is Counseling?
Counseling is a special opportunity for you to learn more about yourself so that you can better cope with the demands of college life. As a result of counseling, students often have more satisfying relationships with others, feel better about themselves, and perform better in school. You could think of counseling as a learning process - about you!
College counselors are professionally trained to help students cope with a wide variety of educational, adjustment, and mental health issues. College counselors also facilitate academic progress and help students successfully achieve their career goals. A counseling relationship allows students to confidentially discuss their personal thoughts and feelings. Some of the skills counselors use include listening, informing, empathizing, collaborating, brainstorming, problem solving, co-constructing goals, and modeling appropriate behaviors. Some of the services provided by college counselors include personal, academic and career counseling and workshops and outreach programming. Depending on the nature of your concern, counseling may be a few sessions to several sessions. In some cases, a referral to a specialist works best. Some of the issues for which students seek counseling include:
- Adjustment to college life
- Low motivation
- Decision-making distress
- Relationship challenges - with friends, families, partners, roommates
- Academic stress and test anxiety
- Uncertainty about careers and study directions
- Depression or loneliness or anxiety or grief
- Feeling hopeless and that life is not worth living
- Worries about certain behaviors that are harmful to you
- Finding it difficult to make friends or communicate effectively with others
- Coping with the illness or death of loved ones - or your own illness
(Adapted from Massey University "Counselling Issues" and American College Counseling Association, May 2003)
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities) may describe your college experience. Some days are full of excitement and welcomed challenges, while other days find you feeling overwhelmed and anxious. Because college life presents so many transitions, counseling could help you learn more about yourself and how to best cope with the changes your are facing.
Want more information? Check out the Types of Counseling page, particularly for information on College Counseling.
If you are an TAMUQ student and would like more information about counseling or to schedule an appointment, call 423-0047 or email patricia.collins@qatar.tamu.edu.
Thank you for visiting the TAMUQ Wellness Program site. The apppearance of website links on the TAMUQ site does not imply endorsement by TAMUQ of the external website's content or the views and opinions of the external website's sponsoring organization. |
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