Counseling and Psychological Services
Student Services Offered
Confidential services offered to assist students manage the adjustment
demands and developmental challenges of college include:
- Brief, time-effective individual counseling
- Brief, time-effective couples counseling (at least one member of the couple must be a currently enrolled UNLV student)
- Crisis assessment and intervention
- Medication evaluation and management
- Psychological assessment and testing
- Eating disorder assessment and treatment
- Drug and alcohol use assessment
- Consultation to campus community members
- Educational workshops and presentations
- Student consultations where students considering leaving school can discuss their decision with one of our professional counselors
- Referrals to community resources for students who have needs beyond the resources at CAPS
Faculty and Staff Services Offered
Services are offered to support faculty and staff as they respond
to students' transition to, matriculation through, and departure
from the university. These include:
- consultation
- information and resource distribution
- training
- educational programming.
These interventions are intended to expand the scope of available
day to day support to the students.
Please proceed to faculty and staff services
web page for more information.
Confidentiality
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Professional ethical codes and state laws consider the personal
information discussed in counseling to be confidential. All information
gathered in counseling, including the fact that the student has
come to Student Psychological Services, is held in strict confidence.
No information is released to university officials, faculty members,
parents or outside agencies without written authorization from
the student.
An exception to the law is when there is imminent danger of serious
harm to the client or others. In this instance, the counselor
must take action to prevent harm.
More Information
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For more information about the services at Student Counseling and Psychological Services, please call us at 895-3627. Our regular office hours are Monday – Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |