Wellness Centers
The Wellness Centers house both Student Health Services, and Counseling and Psychological Services.
The centers are dedicated to the issue of wellness from the “whole person” perspective. Rather than focus merely on the physical, services are available to help students evaluate their overall lifestyle by addressing the physical, emotional, mental and relational aspects of their lives. In addition, the centers recognize the importance of the spiritual dimension of life and maintain a close connection with campus ministry.
The centers’ staff can help students address medical concerns, make healthy lifestyle choices, change behavioral patterns that have a negative impact on their lives and select the goals that will enhance their overall well-being. In-house referrals between student health services and the counseling services help to ensure that students receive these comprehensive services in a confidential setting.
Counseling and Psychological Services
The University’s student counseling and psychological services maintain a staff of professional counselors to help students with educational and personal concerns. Services are available free to all full-time and part-time students. Within this confidential setting, students are free to discuss personal and academic concerns, explore ways to deal with problems and develop new skills to help them handle life’s challenges in an effective and health-enhancing manner. Psychological and vocational testing are available when it will aid the counseling process.
Student counseling and psychological services complement the academic experience of the student body by facilitating healthy personal, social and intellectual development of students. Life circumstances, skills deficits and/or mental health problems may at times interfere with a student’s ability to successfully achieve important academic and life goals.
The office’s unique environment and role allows it to help students identify their problems, manage their emotions, learn new problem-solving skills and successfully meet the academic and social challenges of University life. This is accomplished by offering:
- Counseling, diagnostic evaluation, psychotherapy, advocacy, and mental health referrals;
- Developmental, preventative and remedial counseling to University students
- Consultation, educational and training services to the University community
- Experiential workshops on essential life skills (i.e. assertiveness, stress management, sleep hygiene)
The student counseling and psychological services staff offer groups and workshops to the campus community on a variety of interest areas such as stress management, study skills, time management, drug abuse, etc.
Student counseling and psychological services on the Metropolitan Campus also offers a “Stress Lab” resource room. Students are invited to utilize the resources in this facility to learn more about the sources and symptoms of stress in their lives and develop their own personalized stress management programs.
Health Services
The University maintains that good health is vital to academic success. In an effort to emphasize and promote this concept, a current physical examination and a complete immunization record are required.
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The health services’ goals include keeping students well, providing care when they are not well and empowering students to make informed decisions about their health. Nurse practitioners and professional nurses assist students with their health concerns.
As both a resource and health clinic, student health services provide students with information regarding available medical and health-related services. Programs on wellness and health are offered as part of the student learning experience. All students are welcome.
The university requires all full-time undergraduate students with 12 credits or more (Resident and Commuter) to have medical coverage, either through a personal plan or purchased through the University Student Injury and Sickness Plan for Fairleigh Dickinson University. The University requires all full-time graduate students taking 9 credits or more students must have medical coverage. Enrollment information may be obtained at uhcsr.com. All full-time students may waive the school health plan with evidence of coverage by their personal plan. If the proof of personal insurance in not declared by logging on the uhcsr.com website, the student is automatically enrolled for school health coverage and billed for the coverage. Health insurance information must be updated annually. The deadline to waive the school insurance is October 15 for the Fall semester and February 28 for the Spring semester.
The student health service on each campus is staffed with competent, experienced registered nurses and nurse practitioners. Complaints of an urgent nature are referred to the local hospital or urgent care centers in the community during hours of operation.