College is a time of change that can be very exciting as well as stressful and challenging. Experiencing stress, relationship concerns, loneliness, or other personal issues can take a toll on your overall well-being. Professional counselors are here to provide short-term counseling services to enrolled students. Counseling and testing services are confidential. Students do not have to be in crisis to access counseling services! Call our office at 507-537-7150 or stop by our office in BA 156 to make an appointment.

Testing services provided include a variety of personality and interest inventories. The office also offers various types of intellectual assessments and proctors graduate and professional tests such as the Praxis Exams and GRE.

SMSU Counseling & Testing Services, Western Mental Health Center, and Avera Marshall Behavioral Health are pleased to announce an on-campus workshop opportunity: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness: A Best Practices Approach with Co-Occurring Disorders, on Wednesday, February 17, 2010, from 8:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in the SMSU Conference Center ballroom.

Susan M. Hoisington, PsyD, LP, is the keynote speaker. Clay Pavlis, MD, and Jody Gladis, Detective are the other workshop presenters. Millions of people in the United States suffer from alcohol and drug problems that co-occur with mental health issues. Significant rates of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and personality disorders occur over the lifespan of individuals with addiction disorders. Concurrently, a relatively high rate of individuals presenting for mental health services suffer from alcohol and drug dependency. The workshop sessions will explore the evolution of co-occurring disorders, key issues in the area of assessment, strategies for integrated treatment, impact on the local area, and psychiatric problems associated with co-occurring disorders. Please access the workshop brochure here : CampusLife/CounselingTestingServices/Co-Occurring%20Disorders%20Brochure.pdf.