FACT SHEET
Population: ASU students and staff/faculty
Location: ASU Main Campus, Boykin Wright Hall, 1st Floor Quadrangle
(706)-737-1471
Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday 8:00 - 6:00 pm
(Between semesters and summer semester, office open until 4:30 pm these days.)
Wednesday - Friday 8:00 - 4:30 pm
Interns will coordinate work hours with their supervisor.
Contact Person: Shannon Stephens, M.S., LPC, NCC (lstephen@aug.edu)
Eligibility: Graduate students must be enrolled at Augusta State University in the Counselor Education program or Psychology program.
Counseling Services: Free, Confidential Individual/Group Counseling
Types:
Personal Counseling
Career Counseling & Testing
(Instruments: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Self
Directed Search, DISCOVER)
Academic Counseling
Self Growth Seminars: Provided each semester, free of charge
Topics:
Stress Management
Disability Issues
Goal Setting
Holiday Blues
Dating
Test Taking
Career Decision Making
Time Management
Assertiveness Training
Self-Esteem
Finances
Grief & Loss Recovery
Parenting Skills
Study Skills
Class Presentations: Counseling & Testing provides Myers-Briggs administration and interpretation classes to all ASUO 1000 courses, some undergraduate & graduate level psychology courses and a graduate level career counseling class each semester.
Awareness & Prevention Programming & Outreach: The Counseling Center participates in alcohol & other drug awareness week activities & programming, national depression screening day, sexual assault awareness programming and world AIDS day activities. Various other programs are presented in the CSRA at local schools, churches, businesses & civic groups.
Testing & Disability Services: The Coordinator for Testing
and Disability Services' office is located in the Quadrangle, next to Fanning
Hall (Business Office). The Coordinator provides services to students with learning, emotional
and physical disabilities and coordinates the major tests given on campus
such as the College Placement Exam, the Regent's Test, PRAXIS, MAT, SAT, MCAT, LSAT, ACT, GRE (subject only), legislative exams, achievement tests,
exit exams, and CLEP.
Supervision: Graduate interns will be supervised by State
licensed and nationally certified counselors. Interns will have opportunities
to perform individual counseling, group counseling (if available that semester),
conduct seminars, teach classes and other activities depending upon the
intern's interests and the Center's needs during the internship semester.