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The Whole Student. Keenyn R. Wald, LPC Mississippi State University Student Counseling Services. $ 56,564.67. Overview. Development over the life-span College Student Development Counseling Skills Counseling Services. Life-Span Development. Life-Span Development.
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The Whole Student Keenyn R. Wald, LPC Mississippi State University Student Counseling Services
Overview • Development over the life-span • College Student Development • Counseling Skills • Counseling Services
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'. • Dylan, B., 1964
Emerging Adulthood • 18-28 • Period of exploration and change • Role experimentation, finding the right “fit” • Arnett, 2006
Emerging Adulthood • Semi autonomy • Students take on some of the responsibilities, but others they leave up to the care of parents • Arnett, 2006
Emerging Adulthood • Psychological development is not inevitable • Think back to the vs stages of Erikson • Arnett, 2006
Emerging Adulthood • Development is fostered when the student’s environment provides a balance of challenge and support • Arnett, 2006
Emerging Adulthood • “the upward potential of youth is given wings by the encouragement, the wisdom and the leadership of adults far more than by any stirrings inherent in the adolescent’s nature” • John J. Mitchell
Emerging Adulthood • The goal of emerging adulthood is to transform into an adult • Arnett, 2006
Emerging Adulthood • Accepting responsibility for one’s self, making independent decisions, and being financially independent • Arnett, 2006
College Development • Arthur Chickering • Identified seven vectors of development through the college years • Chickering, 1993
Developing Competence • Intellectual • Social • Physical • Chickering, 1993
Managing Emotions • Channel and release emotions, delay gratification, and tolerate some level of anxiety • Chickering, 1993
Autonomy → Interdependence • Striving for self-sufficiency • Chickering, 1993
Mature Interpersonal Relationships • Healthy and positive relationships characterized by tolerance and reciprocity • Increased appreciation of differences • Acceptance of flaws in self and others • Chickering, 1993
Establishing Identity • Integrate different facets of self • “assembling a jigsaw puzzle” • A healthy self-concept through all phases of identity; vocational, personal, social • Self-acceptance • Chickering, 1993
Developing Purpose • “many college students are all dressed up but do not know where they want to go. They have energy, but no destination. While they may have clarified who they are and where they came from, they have only the vaguest notion of who they want to be” • Chickering, 1993
Developing Integrity • Question and examine inherited values, retain and/or revising some, discarding others, and adding new ones • Congruence between values and actions • Chickering, 1993
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Financial habits (+/-) formed at this age are likely to persist throughout adulthood • Shim et al., 2009
$$ Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors acquired during this period can affect their lives profoundly • Shim et al., 2009
Financial independence is a key to achieving “adult” status • Shim et al., 2009
Student Loan Debt • MS • Avg: $27,322 • 57% of population with debt • Nat’l $29,400 • AL • Avg: $26,450 • 53% of population with debt • projectstudentdebt.org
ACHA/NCHA • Within the past 12 months, which of the following have been traumatic or very difficult to handle: • 33% of respondents • Only academics was higher with 44% • Santrock, 2008
Counseling • Depression • Anxiety • Transition to college
Counseling • Relationship issues • Grief • Substance use
Counseling • Academic Concerns • Identity issues • Eating disorders
