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Welcome to the Virtual Counseling Center (VCC).

We offer research-based resources for helping students and graduates develop life skills and career plans.

Resources

For Career Assessment and Planning

For Academic Skill Building

For Enhancing Life Skills
  • Alcohol Concerns
    • Rethinking Drinking: Alcohol and your health. From the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
  • Children of Divorce, Coping with Divorce. (Coming soon)
  • Chronic illnesses. Medical education and coping-skills training from Starlight Children's Foundation.
  • Conflict Management. Training for high school students with resources for teachers and parents.
  • Depression: Prevention and intervention programs
  • Health and Wellness Tutorials
  • Moral/Character/Sex Education
    • Our Courts: 21st Century Civics (for middle schools with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
    • STDs: What everyone should know
  • Nutrition, Exercise, and Weight Control. Several resources in varying stages of development.
  • Personality Tests
  • Self-Esteem Issues
  • Smoking Cessation Multiple intervention programs
  • Stress Reduction Programs
    • Healthy Thinking (beta). Applies cognitive therapy to the stressors of everyday life.
    • Relaxation Training for academic anxiety, occupational stress, and many behavioral health concerns.
    • After Deployment provides behavioral-health intervention programs for returning military personnel experiencing stress-related problems in living.
    • Sesame Workshop: Talk, Listen, Connect. Streaming videos and related coping materials focused on deployment, homecoming, and injury -- for young children of military parents.

Professional Tool Box: Resources for Research and Practice

  • A taxonomy of barriers and supports for women in STEM studies and careers. (Under development)
  • Clinical Corner: Resources for challenging concerns.
  • The Educational Planning Survey gathers information for helping you establish academic and career plans.
  • Free STEM educational materials, many supported by the National Science Foundation
  • IDEAL: Arizona's eLearning Platform
  • O*Net Career Exploration Tools. Downloadable measures of career interest, importance, and ability.
  • Specialized Libraries
  • Vocopher provides free career testing resources for graduate-trained researchers and practitioners (requires Internet Explorer).