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ISSION
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To promote the personal development and psychological well-being of all students and to encourage a college environment that is conducive to growth and learning. We provide ethical, high quality psychological and counseling services to UNI students and consultation services to UNI faculty and staff.
1. Increase outreach to underserved populations.
2. Increase number of students seen for counseling.
In addition to accomplishing the above goals, the average wait time for an initial assessment was reduced from 3.84 to 3.36 days compared to last year. The Counseling Center was able to see 26% of new clients the same day, 24% were seen the next day, and 89% were seen within 1 week.
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An Outreach Team (DeWitz, Harken, Villarreal, & Honsell) was established.
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The Counseling Center website was revised by the UNI Production House to be consistent with the websites of other UHS programs.
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The Counseling Center conducted 124 outreach programs to 1,976 individual recipients.
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Counseling Center staff attended 71 liaison/committee activities.
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Counseling Center staff members participated in Foundations of Excellence, DSA Diversity Committee, the Assessment &
Consultation Team, Critical Incident Planning Team, Eating Disorders Treatment Team, & the Alcohol Task Force.
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The Counseling Center offers anonymous on-line screening through Mentalhealthscreening.org.
Two new Mental Health Counselors, Stephanie Harken and Priscilla Villarreal, were added to the staff bringing us to a total of four Mental Health Counselors and three Psychologists. With seven professional staff members for the academic year, we have a staff to student ratio of 1:1844 (Fall 2008 enrollment of 12,908). The International Association of Counseling Services
(IACS) recommends of at least 1 counselor for every 1500 students.
Karen Phillips's duties have been shifted to focus on providing more support to the Student Disability Services program. Her financial responsibilities for the Counseling Center have been shifted to Debby Roth, the University Health Services
Accountant. Karen continues to assist in providing reception and secretarial support for the Counseling Center.
During the 2008-09 academic year, we had provided training to four Interns and seven practicum counselors from the
Mental Health Counseling Program in the UNI College of Education. The Counseling Interns provided 1380 counseling sessions to 434 clients. They received 140 hours of individual supervision from Counseling Center staff members.
Practicum counselors provided 253 counseling sessions to 43 clients. They received 348 hours of supervision and 70 hours of seminar with Jim Griffin, Ph.D., a Licensed Psychologist.
Staff members participated in 61 professional development activities for a total of 284 hours. This does not include selfstudy activities staff members engaged in to fulfill licensure requirements.
Dr. Paula Gilroy served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of College Counseling. Dr. Joseph DeWitz, with M. Lynn
Woolsey and W. Bruce Walsh, published an article on college student retention in the Journal of College Student
Development.

Freshman
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
Graduate
Majors
Elementary
Education
Psychology
Undecided
Biology
History
Art
Accounting
Social Work
Music
Communication
Marital Status:
Single
Married
Partnered
Counseling Activities:
Appointments Attended
Individual Therapy Sessions
Number of Clients
Initial Assessments
Phone Consultations
Emergency Initial Assessments
In-Person Consultations
Couple Therapy Sessions
Average sessions per client
No Show Rate
08-09
4,426
3,432
697
625
499
117
61
52
6.35
6.6%
C LIENT C HARACTERISTICS
Classification: % Gender: %
71
29
4
4
6
1
2
3
6
8
8
10
18
20
25
25
11
Rank
%
85
5.3
5
Female
Male
Age:
Average Age
Age 22 and Under
Age Range
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
African American
Hispanic /Latino
Asian American
Multiple ethnicities
Not Reported/Other
Referred by:
Self
Friend
Family Member
Faculty
Health Clinic
Staff
Hall Coordinator
Resident Assistant
Online Screening Topic
Depression
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Eating Disorders
Alcohol
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
22.1
74%
17-61
%
84
3.3
2.3
0.9
1.7
7.8
%
22.9
13
7.2
4.5
3.9
2.6
2.4
1.4
07-08
4036
3,107
669
567
433
175
82
31
6.03
7.9%
Number Screened
307
213
115
95
80
53
% Change
+9.7
+10.5
+4.2
+10.2
+15.2
-33.1
-25.6
+67.7
+5.3
-16.5
Residence:
Residence Hall
Off-Campus
Apartments
Off Campus with
Family/Spouse/
Partner/Children
34.4
10.9
University Apartments 8.9
Counseling History:
Previous Counseling
Previous Counseling at UNI Counseling
Center
%
45.2
%
50.5
19.6
Severity Factors:
Previous Suicide
Attempt
Past Self-Injurious
Behavior
Friend or Relative
Completed Suicide
On Psychotropic
Medication at time of
Intake
%
8.9
17.6
20
25.6