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Counseling and Student Development

Counseling and Student Development Center
Student Services 312
2600 Campus Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-7927
Fax: (808) 956-9682

The challenges of choosing the right career, achieving or maintaining one's independence, relating successfully to others, and leading a happy and successful life converge during a student's college years. College life adds the concerns of exams, term papers, quizzes, and class reports. Even students who are prepared to do their best in college may experience problems. The Counseling and Student Development Center (CSDC) provides the following services to assist students.

Career Counseling
Students should choose their majors before they progress very far in their academic programs. Most students expect their academic studies to lead to specific careers upon graduation. Career counseling explores strengths and limitations, interests and values, personality and skills, and applies this understanding to developing academic and occupational plans. (See also Career Services.)

Personal Counseling
Some people occasionally, even regularly, feel worried, unhappy, and depressed. Lack of confidence, fear, low self-esteem, inability to get along with others, loneliness, not being able to cope with people and situations, and similar problems can be discussed with one of CSDC's professional counselors. All matters discussed in counseling are confidential and will not affect academic standing.

Psychiatric Consultation
People who find themselves seriously depressed, unable to control their behavior, or doing things they don't understand may want and need psychiatric consultations. A talk with a counselor is recommended to determine whether psychiatric consultation is required.

Educational Counseling
Difficulties in courses and in meeting academic requirements may be alleviated by educational counseling and learning assistance services. The Learning Assistance Center (LAC) offers programs, commercial materials, and diagnostic services to help develop more effective study habits and learning skills. These services are provided on an individual basis through personal program development or on a group basis through workshops. Areas of possible development include time management, listening/note-taking, reading, research paper writing, and general and standardized exam preparation. LAC is in Student Services 306.

Testing
Testing is frequently used as part of counseling to help students understand themselves better and plan their careers. Counselors will discuss which tests to take and interpret them after they are scored. In addition, information is available about admissions and certifications such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), Law School Admission Test (LSAT), and Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), as well as exams for a variety of different programs and professions.

Outreach
Workshops and seminars are offered throughout the year. Stress management, assertiveness training, improving self-esteem, career planning, and overcoming loneliness are just a few of the topics covered.

Consultation
CSDC provides consultation services for individual students, faculty, and groups that may need help in solving organizational problems, overcoming interpersonal difficulties, and planning staff development programs.

Sex Equity Specialist

Student Services 209
2660 Campus Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-9499
E-mail: bmccrear@hawaii.edu

The sex equity specialist serves students, faculty, and staff members as a source for information, counseling, and advocacy on matters relating to sexual harassment and related discrimination. The sex equity specialist can help clarify issues relating to discrimination, develop long-term coping strategies, file informal complaints and arrange informal resolutions, assist in filing formal complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) Office, and provide additional resources and referrals when they are needed. The sex equity specialist will answer questions, listen to complaints, offer advice on filing procedures, see that appropriate action is taken, and help protect grievants from retaliation.

The sex equity specialist also offers training to the campus population on interpersonal, inter-gender, and cross-cultural communication; student, faculty, and staff rights and responsibilities and other legal issues relating to sexual harassment in academia; and interpretation of state and federal guidelines and procedures. In addition, the sex equity specialist offers general sexual harassment awareness workshops.

Students and faculty and staff members may contact the sex equity specialist in person, by mail, or through e-mail.

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