Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine (NSU MD) 2023–2024 15 activities will often be limited, students are encouraged to continue their interests, hobbies, and personal relationships while in medical school. Counseling Services for Students NSU MD provides all students with professional and comprehensive counseling services. Counselors are dedicated to providing professional, confidential, psychological, financial, and academic counseling. Students may self-refer or be referred by family, friends, professors, staff members, colleagues, or other individuals. The OSA and NSU provide counseling in three key areas that are critical to a student’s academic and professional success: personal counseling, academic counseling, and financial counseling. Personal Counseling NSU offers counseling services to its students. Students may receive, without charge, 10 counseling sessions per calendar year (measured from the first counseling session). Students requiring more than 10 sessions within a year may be transitioned to a community provider (if clinically appropriate) and, at the completion of the one-year period, return to the counseling center. Students may receive unlimited psychiatric services at a nominal fee (if the student elected the NSU health insurance, there is no deductible or co-pay applicable to the psychiatric service). The NSU Center for Student Counseling And Well-Being (CSCW) provides confidential psychological evaluations and consultations for students in individual and group sessions; psycho-educational and wellness programs on a variety of mental health topics, including stress management, time management, depression, personality profiles, identifying cognitive strengths, anger management, relationships, maintaining academic and social balance, study skills, test-taking skills, enhancing self-esteem, and leadership. CSCW services include treatment for anxiety, panic, and depression; anger management; financial stress; social struggles; chronic illnesses; abuse; suicidal thoughts, breakups, and divorce; assault; and many other areas affecting a student’s quality of life. Student counseling services offered by the CSCW include • individual, group, and family/relationship counseling provided by psychologists, clinical social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and supervised graduate student trainees • psychiatric medication services • alcohol and drug assessment and counseling • counseling in life skills and life choices • workshops and seminars in interpersonal and wellness areas Good reasons for seeking counseling include: feeling frequently sad or nervous, difficulty with alcohol or drugs, thinking about harming yourself or others, trouble adjusting to college life or studies, relationship problems, a recent trauma you can’t resolve, questions about career or identity, feeling lonely or homesick, roommate or friendship problems, body image or weight problems, feeling too much stress, difficulty with sex or intimacy, and wanting assistance solving personal or life problems. Note: CSCW’s records and information are confidential and are not university records.
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