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Empowering You for Life
MISSION
STATEMENT
The mission of the Florida Atlantic University
Counseling & Psychological Services center is to
provide FAU students with timely and effective mental
health services that allow them to improve and maintain
their mental well-being and therefore to meet their
educational, personal, emotional, and psychological goals.
The following
values guide the work of the counseling professionals at
the FAU Counseling & Psychological Services
Center:
Provide maximum quality and accessibility of direct
professional mental health services to FAU students,
including individual and group counseling, crisis response,
consultation, brief assessment, and referral, that is
accessible to an provide for the general well-being of FAU
students.
Counselors will seek to encourage self awareness,
personal responsibility and healthy interpersonal
relationships within a diverse environment.
Provide prevention programming and consultation to
students, faculty, and staff with the purpose of
facilitating healthy development and psychological
functioning.
Facilitate education and training of students and
staff on topics that are
germane to the healthy functioning and well being of
FAU students.
Ensure that all services provided are vital,
current, and ethical
Maintain positive and ongoing relationships with the
campus and surrounding community, with an emphasis in
establishing and sustaining liaisons with those groups who
have regular contact with FAU students.
Provide continued professional and personal
development opportunities to
our staff, with the express purpose of reducing
burnout and allowing counselors to find a sense of balance;
which will in turn allow them to maintain a high level of
work with clients.
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