Mission, Values, and Vision
Counseling Services is committed to aiding students in the maintenance of their mental health. Counseling providers offer short-term assistance for students with personal, developmental, and academic concerns.
Our Vision
We aim to cultivate multiculturally-centered, ecological, and trauma-informed didactic, clinical, and policy development practices to improve the health, academic outcomes, adult functioning, and career trajectories of ALL learners at the University. These outcomes are reached through the delivery of five core programs (i.e., individual and group counseling, psychological assessment, outreach and prevention education, social services, internships for mental health providers-in-training). This philosophy is grounded in the idea of Counseling Services functioning as leaders of a whole-campus mental health team.
Our Mission
We accomplish these goals by offering mental health services to the SIUE campus community through direct clinical services rendered to its students, consultation with its faculty/staff, and facilitation of outreach that seeks to educate and enrich all members of our community through the following objectives:
- To deliver a multi-level set of evidence-based clinical services
- To create a University-wide culture of mental health awareness and wellness
- To foster an awareness of mental health-related campus and community resources
- To reduce mental health stigma by promoting self-care and help-seeking behaviors
- To build a campus community of trained individuals who can recognize and respond to students and peers in crisis
Our Values
Counseling Services values and maintains the highest professional ethical standards in fostering psychological well-being and development. We value integrity, openness, cooperation and collegiality. We appreciate and respect diversity and individual differences.
Philosophy of Care
At Counseling Services, we use an Adlerian-based, brief model of care (e.g., 50-minute hour, biweekly appointments, by-the-goal approach to monitoring progress in treatment and making decisions about when discharge is clinically indicated). To succeed in this approach to service delivery, we ask the following of clients:
- To be able to establish a relatively trusting relationship with a counseling provider
- To be able to reasonably articulate how their pain/distress/discomfort/problem affects their ability to function intrapersonally, interpersonally, academically, and occupationally
- A high level of motivation
- To be accountable for setting and intentionally working toward treatment goals
