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Web Destinations

Key Sites for Practitioners

Campus Mediation Resources
This site is dedicated to supporting the development of mediation and conflict resolution services at colleges and universities. The site is updated often and contains information in a variety of categories: philosophical foundations, program development assistance, campus mediation information, and online articles.
http://www.campus-adr.org/

College and University Home Pages in Alphabetical Order
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html

College Counseling Centers with Web Pages
http://ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/centers.html

Counseling Center Village
Made up of many home pages, this site provides a wide range of professional resources for counseling centers. There is also a counseling center directory and a number of research and resource pages.
http://ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/ccv.html

Student Counseling Centers on the Internet
University and College Counseling Centers are increasingly using the Internet as a vehicle for outreach, training, and collaboration. The site allows you to generate a list of Internet resources created by college and university counseling centers.
http://ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/centers.html

Workshop Central
Workshop Central is a sub-site sponsored by the American College Personnel Association. Options include workshop outlines and handouts, workshop design strategies, and an outreach coordinator's corner.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jharris/workshophome.html

Key Sites for Client Information

Alcohol Facts for College Students
http://www.factsontap.org/

Financial Aid Information from the U.S. Government
http://studentaid.ed.gov/students/publications/student_guide/index.html

Immigration Information for Foreign Students
http://www.theodora.com/is.html

Virtual Pamphlets
Bob Hsiung has collected more than 100 pamphlets on a wide range of counseling subjects. Some are still available on the University of Chicago website where they were originally collected. The pamphlets are authored by experts from around the country. These pamphlets provide information about alcohol and substance abuse, cultural issues, relationships, study skills, and more. For example, one of the pamphlets authored by the University of Florida helps students identify step-by-step methods to overcome fears.
http://www.dr-bob.org/vpc/

Professional Development

Professional Organizations

American College Counseling Association—ACCA
The American College Counseling Association promotes an organization of counseling professionals and offers support for college counseling. It is a division of the American Counseling Association, and its goals are to encourage cooperation between college/university organizations and to lead the way for the profession of college counseling. The website contains a calendar of events, publications, and a link page. ACCA also publishes the Journal of College Counseling.
http://www.collegecounseling.org

Membership in ACCA is available by contacting the American Counseling Association. Telephone: (800) 347-6647

American College Personnel Association—ACPA
One Dupont Circle, NW
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20036
Telephone: (202) 835-ACPA (2272)
Fax: (202) 296-3286
E-mail: info@acpa.nche.edu
Website: http://www.myacpa.org

Commission VII ACPA
Commission VII of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), Counseling & Psychological Services, is an association of graduate students and professionals involved in counseling provided by college and university service centers. Commission VII publishes the Journal of College Student Development. There are pages devoted to membership and special interest groups and a newsletter for members. You must belong to ACPA to be a member of Commission VII.
http://www.acpa.nche.edu/comms/comm07/com7hmpg.htm

Codes of Ethics

ACCA and ACPA
Neither Division VII of ACPA nor ACCA have separate codes of ethics for university counseling center personnel. To obtain copies of their general ethical codes, contact the American Counseling Association and ACPA.
Telephone toll-free: (888) 326-1750
Fax (614) 326-1760
http://ncda.org/

American College Personnel Association Commission for Career Development (VI)
ACPA's Division VI publishes Career Watch, a newsletter for career services professionals in the student affairs field.
http://www.acpa.nche.edu/comms/comm06.htm

Career Planning and Adult Development Network
The network is a nonprofit organization of career counselors, researchers, and educators. They publish the Career Planning and Adult Development Journal.
Career Planning and Adult Development Network
4965 Sierra Road
San Jose, CA 95132
Telephone: 408-559-4946
FAX: 408-559-8211
http://www.careernetwork.org/

Annotated Bibliography

Foundational Works

Chickering, A. W. (1969). Education and identity. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Chickering's original work outlined specific developmental stages of college students and provided the theoretical basis and rationale for student development programs across the United States. In the tradition of Piaget, Kohlberg, and Perry, Chickering believed that students encounter specific challenges beyond the classroom that must be met through a developmental approach to student programming.

Chickering, A. W., & Reisser, L. (1993). Education and identity (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
The update of the original work contains new ideas based on research into student development and skills required. The new developmental issues identified are developing competence, managing emotions, moving toward independence, developing mature relationships, establishing identity, developing purpose, and developing integrity.

Drum, D. J., & Knott, J. E. (1977). Structured groups for facilitating development: Acquiring life skills, resolving life themes, and making life transitions. New York: Human Sciences Press.
This book covers three main types of structured groups: life skills groups, life theme groups, and life transition groups. Drum discusses their theoretical underpinnings, essential features, and particular delivery methods. In addition, he analyzes the possible future direction of structured groups.

Drum, D. J., & Lawler, A. (1988). Developmental interventions: Theories, principles, and practice. Columbus, OH: Merrill.
Developmental theory is behind much of the work with college students. It is important to recognize the changes and stresses of this particular age group. This volume contains main theories, techniques, and principles of interventions for personal development. The book also offers a step-by-step guide to procedures for designing interventions.

Heppner, P. P., & Neal, G. W. (1983). Holding up the mirror: Research on the roles and functions of counseling centers in families' education. Counseling Psychologist, 11, 81-98.
Heppner discusses the literature on college counseling centers from before 1945 and between 1945-1955, 1955-1970, and 1970-1982. He examines the development of the counselor's role, research methods, students' views of college counseling centers, and the move from counseling for personal problems to career counseling.

Morrill, W. H., Oetting, E. R., & Hurst, J. C. (1974). Dimensions of counselor functioning. Personnel and Guidance Journal, 53, 354-359.
The Cube is a model for selecting appropriate methods from a wide range of counseling interventions. It is a way of looking at how to choose techniques based on goals, purposes, and methods.

Warnath, F. (1973). New directions for college counselors. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Warnath's early work is remarkable because of its focus on campus-wide problems. The book challenged college counselors to look beyond the office and engage in preventative work.

Key Current Works

Archer, J., Jr. (1991). Counseling college students. New York: Continuum.
This is a primer for college counselors working in counseling or psychological services. The book is topically arranged with chapters on academic success, career choice, relationship issues, sexuality, stress, depression and suicide, substance abuse and eating disorders, and professional help and referral.

Archer, J., Jr., & Cooper, S. (1998). Counseling and mental health services on campus. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Archer and Cooper's book begins by looking at counseling needs of today's students and then prescribes a variety of treatments such as brief therapy, group counseling, and prevention. There is a major emphasis on working with the culturally different. Most of the chapters contain in-depth boxed examples of campus programs to meet specific student needs such as The Depression Group, Two-Phase Eating Disorders Program, Self-Help Library, Date-Rape Survivors as Peer Counselors, and Workshops for Valuing Cultural Diversity. Counselors at various institutions submitted these programs.

Bishop, J. B. (1995). Emerging strategies for college and university counseling centers. Journal of Counseling and Development, 74, 33-38.
Higher education influences college and university counseling centers' funding, service entitlement, and personnel policies. This article discusses college and university counseling centers responses to these influences, in addition to opportunities for constructing policies and procedures that may improve and anchor the role of college and university counseling centers.

Jongsma, E. E., Stout, C. E. and Helkowski, C. (2004). The college student counseling treatment planner. Indianapolis: Wiley.
A treatment planner for the 29 most common presenting problems diagnosed in student populations.

Kiracofe, N., et al. (1994). Accreditation standards for university and college counseling centers. Journal of Counseling and Development, 73, 38-44.
This article presents the accreditation standards used by the International Association of Counseling Services, Inc. The work discusses the relationship of counseling centers to universities, ethical standards, counseling personnel, and other items related to college and university counseling centers.

Pace, D., Stamler, V. L., & Yarris, E. (1992). A challenge to the challenges: Counseling centers of the 1990s. Counseling Psychologist, 20, 183-188.
Gender-fair counseling is an important issue for university and college counseling centers. Women students' concerns are discussed along with possible guidelines for counseling staff training, support groups, impacting college and university policies on women's issues, and outreach activities.

Pace, D., Stamler, V. L., Yarris, E., & June, L. (1996). Rounding out the cube: Evolution to a global model for counseling centers. Journal of Counseling and Development, 74, 321-325.
This article offers a modification of the Cube model designed by W. H. Morrill to what the authors call the global method. The impetus for the global method was to equip college and university counseling centers with methods that are more flexible, interdependent, and collaborative regarding the campus community.

Stone, G. L., & Archer, J., Jr. (1990). College and university counseling centers in the 1990s: Challenges and limits. Counseling Psychologist, 18 (4), 539-607.
This article examines college and university counseling centers' challenges in the 1990s involving clinical, outreach, and consultation services, staff development and training, research, and administration.

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