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The VCUQatar Student Counseling Office offers all VCUQatar students private and confidential individual counseling assistance as well as a variety of academic success programs. 

Featured services include: 

• Study skills
• Time management
• Stress management
• Test anxiety
• Adjustment to college life
• Culture adjustment issues
• Career decisions
• Assistance with resume construction
• Self-esteem
• Personal/emotional/psychological problems
• Interpersonal relationship issues
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Anger management
• Eating disorders
• Grief & loss

Our mission is to create an environment that supports student growth, development, and emotional/psychological well-being through counseling, education, and prevention. We are committed to human rights, equality, empowerment, confidentiality and promoting respect for all individuals and cultural differences.

People seek university counseling services for a wide variety of concerns as listed above. The decision about which type of service best fits you is a complex one and is based on many factors, including:

• Your current concerns
• Any previous counseling you may have had
• Counselor expertise
• Scheduling considerations
• Availability of resources

Our goal in this process is to help you find the most effective and efficient way to work toward resolving your concerns so that you can move on with your life.

For further information contact: 

VCUQatarAcademic Success Program

VCUQatar's Academic Success Program features a variety of classes and workshops.  Some resources are listed below: 

Computer-assisted study skills assessment and strategies for academic success

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30 minutes of your time

• Immediate feedback
• Pre/post test for feedback on your progress
• Assess the following:
• Attitude
• Motivation
• Time management
• Anxiety
• Concentration
• Information processing
• Selecting main ideas
• Study aids
• Self-testing
• Test strategies

Some other helpful links

Online mental health screening

Https://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/screening/loginpage.asp

Counseling centre village

Http://ccvillage.buffalo.edu/ccv.html

Assorted emotional/mental information sites

Http://www.utexas.edu/student/cmhc/booklets/index.html

Texas A&M Qatar student wellness program

Http://www.qatar.tamu.edu/wellness.aspx

Great time management website! Try the time management exercises and the assignment calculator!

Http://www.studygs.net/timman.htm

Top study skills links!

Http://ccvillage.buffalo.edu/ato.html

Self-esteem

Http://www.utexas.edu/student/cmhc/booklets/selfesteem/selfest.html

Assertiveness

Http://www.utexas.edu/student/cmhc/booklets/assert/assertive.html

Grief & loss

Http://www.utexas.edu/student/cmhc/booklets/grief/grief.html

Stress

Http://www.utexas.edu/student/cmhc/booklets/stress/stress.html

Self-care/health & wellness

Http://healthcenter.ucdavis.edu/selfcare/index.htm

Confidentiality

All information you share with a counselor is confidential. Both VCUQatar counselors are masters level social workers and as such are guided by professional, legal, and ethical guidelines established by professional organizations and state laws. In terms of confidentiality, this means no information is released to anyone - university officials, faculty members, parents, or outside agencies without your written permission. Legal and ethical exceptions to these confidentiality guidelines include:

1) Situations where there is imminent danger of harm to yourself or others because of your actions.

2) Information from you that there is child abuse or other dependent abuse occurring either by you or someone you know.

Counselors are ethically bound to reveal information to prevent harms of these types.

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