Increasing Mental Health Resources for Student Success

The American Council on Education recently named the “mental health of students” as the most pressing issue facing college campuses, cutting across all demographics and leaving no part of campus untouched. Your gift to the Counseling Center ensures access to important mental health resources for the 2,000+ students who seek services each year, including:

• Short-term individual counseling (3 to 5 sessions)
• Clinical support, advocacy, consultation and referral services for survivors of sexual trauma
• Crisis consultation
• Support in connecting to local professionals for longer-term clinical services
• Weekly small-group counseling
• Wilderness therapy programs during spring and fall break
• Specialized 3-part workshops for issues like anxiety, body empowerment, and healthy coping
• Animal assisted therapy and therapy dog outreach
• Access to relaxation and creative arts self-care spaces
• Engaging psychoeducational mental health workshops

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Our Impact

Using the most popular assessment of college student mental health symptoms, JMU students improved at greater levels than the national average on each of eight clinical subscales. Last year, of the students who were surveyed by the JMU Counseling Center,

• 99% indicated that their counselor seemed skilled and competent
• 92% indicated that they were now better prepared to work through future problems in healthy ways.
• 70% agreed that because of counseling, they were more likely to stay in school (27% answered "Not Applicable")