Information for Faculty and Staff
The Counseling & Career Development Center staff is available to work with faculty and staff of UWG in three main ways.
Outreach
We can make outreach presentations to your class or department on topics such as counseling services, career counseling, stress management, test anxiety, assertiveness, sexual assault prevention, communication skills, adjusting to college, depression, and more. We can tailor presentations for your purposes with enough lead-time. For presentations email programs@westga.edu.
Consultation
We are available to consult with faculty and staff, campus groups and organizations, administrative offices, or others who may be concerned about issues affecting the personal and academic well being of students. We can assist with student crises, help to assess a difficult situation, facilitate interventions, identify resources, and make referrals where appropriate.
If you have questions or concerns, please give us a call at (678) 839-6428.
Referral
In your capacity as a UWG faculty or staff member, students may come to you for advice or assistance with personal concerns. There will be times when you believe it is appropriate to recommend that the student seek services at the Counseling & Career Development Center. To make a referral please ask the student to call and make a counseling appointment. Allow the student to use your phone or walk him or her over to Row Hall.
What Happens for a Student at the Counseling & Career Development Center?
Students should make appointments themselves when possible. If you are meeting with the student, you may help him or her with this process by offering the use of your telephone.
During the first visit to the Counseling & Career Development Center, the student will complete some basic information forms before meeting with a counselor. This often takes about 10-15 minutes.
In meeting with the counselor, the student will have the opportunity to talk about issues that are of concern to him or her. The counselor will assess the needs of the student, and present ways that the Counseling & Career Development Center and other student services may be able to help meet these needs. Services at the Counseling & Career Development Center are provided free of charge, and all information is confidential.
If it appears that the student is in crisis and needs to be accompanied to the Counseling & Career Development Center, you may consider accompanying the student yourself.
Our offices are open 8:00am-5:00pm Monday through Friday. We have an on-call counselor available at all times.
If the student arrives at the Counseling & Career Development Center in crisis the receptionist will arrange for the student to meet the on-call counselor as soon as possible. If you have a crisis with a student after business hours, you may contact University Police 96000, and they will page the on-call counselor.
More extensive crisis information and resources are available at http://www.westga.edu/UWGCares.
Information on mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, substance use, and suicide are available at Prevent UWG.
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