Workshops Available To Students (free for full time students)
Workshops sponsored by the Counseling and CareerCenter (call 378-2689 for times and dates)
1.Communication: If you have a personal desire to lean and use practical communication skills in order to increase understanding and quality in your relationships, this workshop is for you. They will discuss the distinct roles of listeners and speakers and focus on interpersonal communication.
2.Financial Management: Come learn and practice the fundamentals of budgeting, debt management, and money matters that can affect college students.
3.GraduateSchool Exploration: Considering GradSchool? Come to this workshop to learn what is involved and what resources are available to help you make an informed decision about graduate school.
4.Listening and Note Taking: This workshop presents several effective listening habits as well as techniques and systems for streamlined note taking.
5.Memory: Don’t forget this workshop! Come learn techniques designed to help you remember more and improve your memory storage and recall.
6.Overcoming Procrastination: An estimated 90% of college students procrastinate—are you one of them? This workshop can help you combat this destructive habit!
7.Stress Management: Learn to identify and mange your own stress though relaxation and stress management techniques.
8.Test Taking: Low test scores getting you down? This workshop presents skills which can help you take tests more effectively.
9.Time Management: Gain control of your life by controlling your time! Learn how balance affects this process.
10.Textbook Comprehension: Learn this simple, yet effective, SQ3R reading method as well as different marking techniques that will help you study smarter, not harder! Please bring a textbook to the workshop.
11.Women and Careers: Learn about issues facing women regarding educational, career, and life decisions.
12.Interviewing Skills: Come learn the do’s and don’ts of a good employment interview.
13.Resume and Letter Writing: Learn about the structure, mechanics, content and distribution of an effective resume. Discusses letters of inquiry, application, follow-up, delay, acceptance, and decline.
14.Internships: Learn about internship opportunities, how to make the right contacts, and the resources that are available to assist you in your search for the perfect internship.
15.eRecruiting: Want an interview with the top visiting recruiters on campus? Then come learn how to utilize the on-line registration system!
16.Pre-law worskshops
A.Personal Statements/Letters of Recommendation: Come learn how to design these documents to make a lasting impression on the law school of your choice! Each person will begin a first draft of a personal statement.
B.LSAT Preparation: LSAT looming near in your future? The pre-law advisor will present a study plan that has proven very effective time and again.
C.Creating a Great Application: Do you want to prepare the best application you can? Come learn useful tips and great ideas that will make for a great application!
Services offered to students (free for full-time students)
1.WritingCenter: If you want help with a paper use this service in 1010 JKHB, Morris Center/Cannon Center, and the HeritageCentralBuilding. They will help with the following:
A.Writing Process: Prewriting, Organizing, Writing, Revising.
B.Pre-professional writing: Letters of Application, Graduate and Admission Essays.
C.Computer Skills: Word processing, Document design, Resumes, Internet research.
D.Various types of writing: Analysis paper, Research papers, Creative writing.
E.Documentation: APA, MLA, Turabian.
2.The Reading Center: Provides instructional support in critical thinking, textual comprehension and analysis, argument evaluation, idea organization, stylistic awareness, research strategies, speed-reading, writing skills, grammar and usage. The instructional support by the following ways:
A.Daily fifty-minute classes on topics ranging from general reading strategies to specific help with composition courses.
B.One-on-one tutorials in the Center with trained peer-tutors.
C.Handouts on all kinds of reading, thinking, and writing strategies.
3.Tutoring Services: tutoring service offered by volunteers who are qualified to assist students in almost any subject on campus.
4.The Counseling and Career: students can receive information and help in the following areas:
A.Academic Support: Students can receive help in maintaining BYU’s academic standards.
Services help students:
1)Avoid academic trouble.
2)Recover from academic problems.
3)Improve time management.
4)Raise CPA.
B.Career and Learning Information: Students receive individual or group assistance in exploration and decision-making in relation to major and career issues. They offer workshops which include some of the following topics:
1)Stress management.
2)Test preparation and test taking.
3)Listening and note taking.
4)Overcoming procrastination.
5)Textbook comprehension.
C.Career Placement Services: Provides students and alumni with information about hundreds of opportunities for employment in business, industry, education, and government. Resources include:
1)Thousands of job openings listed each year.
2)Directories containing employers’ addresses and info.
3)Campus interviewing by recruiters for alumni and prospective graduates.
4)Employment workshops.
a)Letter writing.
b)Resume writing.
c)Interviewing.
D.Counseling: Counseling services are oriented toward short-term interventions designed to help students develop self-reliance and to succeed in their role as students. Counseling is also provided for more serious problems that are associated with acute or long-standing psychological/emotional concerns. Professionals provide counseling in areas including, but not limited to:
1)Eating disorders.
2)Depression/Anxiety
3)Pre-marital/Marital relationships.
4)Interpersonal challenges.
5)Sexual assault or abuse issues.
6)Career and life planning.
E.Open Major Advisement: Serves students who have not yet decided on an academic major, and students whose interests or abilities don’t match the major they have already chosen.
F.Pre-Law Advisement Services: Students who are considering pursuing a legal education receive advisement in academic choices, graduate examination preparation, opportunities in law, internships, volunteer opportunities, and debt and career management skills.
G.Student Development Classes: Classes are offered for students who wish to augment their academic skills. Available student development classes include:
1)Effective Study and Learning.
2)Life Planning and Decision Making.
3)Career Exploration.
4)Individual Development.
5)Pre-Law Seminar
6)Special Topics.
7)Career Transitions.
8)Student Leadership Development.
H.The Stress Management & Biofeedback Lab: Biofeedback instruments are used to pick up signals from your body and feed them back to you so you can be aware of what your body is experiencing. Biofeedback training involves using the information from these instruments to change certain conditions in your body. This training is effective in helping reduce such stress-related symptoms as headaches, nervousness, muscular pain, and insomnia.
I.Students with Disabilities: to accommodate (serve) students who have physical, learning, emotional, or chronic health disabilities. Students can receive diagnostic testing for learning disabilities and ADD. Accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the academic program that enable students with disabilities to enjoy the same opportunities to excel and attain similar benefits and privileges as any other students.
1)Some signs of learning disabilities:
a)Poor, illegible or nearly illegible handwriting.
b)Letter and number reversals.
c)Interrupting.
d)Inability to follow a string of instructions.
e)Tangential thinking, making comments unrelated to the conversation.
f)Ability to verbally explain something, but inability to put it on paper (or vice versa).
g)Ability to explain something one minute but “forgetting” the next.
h)Cannot complete test/exams within the prescribed time limit even though the student knows the information.
2)Academic accommodations may include some of the following:
a)Extended time for exams.
b)Distraction-free room for exams.
c)Alternative modes of evaluation.
d)Staggered exams and/or exam breaks.
e)Non-scantron exams.
f)Computer-assisted or oral exams.
g)Books on tape.
h)Priority registration.
i)Reduced course load.
j)Course substitution.
k)In-class note takes.
l)Audiotape lectures.
m)Computer assistance for class assignments.
n)Copies of class overheads and outlines.
Comprehensive Clinic Available to Students (Cost is a one-time fee of $15 per person or $30 per couple. Fees can be waived or decreased for financial need.)
1.Pre-marital Group- This is for engaged or seriously dating couples. Topics discussed may include: communication, finances, traditions, gender roles, values, intimacy, family of origin issues, marital expectations, problem-solving and conflict resolution, and marital enhancement ideas.
2.Couples Communication/Marriage Enhancement Group-This group reviews many of the above topics and focuses on ways to improve communications and deepen the marital relationship.
3.Process Group- This group is for those feeling sad, depressed or blue. It is also for those having trouble making friends, feeling anxious, or overwhelmed. This is a support group.
4.Divorce Adjustment Group- This group is for recently divorced adults who want support in adjusting to the changes that occur with a divorce.
5.Parenting Group- “Parent-Child Relations: A Thousand Small Moments of Interactions,” meaning that it is the many small moments with children that make up the parent/child relationship. This group covers topics such as connecting with your child, understanding yourself and your child, giving praise and attention, using rewards and celebrations, setting limits, using consequences and time outs, handling difficult children, setting family rules, and teaching values to children. As parent/child interactions become more positive and parents learn how to set and enforce limits, less time and effort is spent on discipline. The group currently is tailored for parents who have children 11 years old and under.