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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
- An ECAP -- Education and Career Action Plan (under development)
- Career Exploration Tests
- How do career tests work?
- Tests using Holland (RIASEC) interest codes:
- Test using occupational values:
- Tests using 16-federal cluster interest scores:
- Test using ability levels
- Additional career assessment procedures.
- The Automated Advisor connects your test results to careers and majors.
- Career Development Tutorials
- STEM Assessment Devices
- STEM Career Depot. Programs for stimulating interest or persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
For Academic Skill Building
- Academic Readiness.
Time management, note taking, study skills, and motivation training.
- FreeRice. A vocabulary builder with humanitarian
consequences. Other subjects too.
- Professor Garfield Foundation.
Graphic intensive K-8 instruction in a variety of subject areas.
- Standardized Test Preparation
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).
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