Psychotherapeutic restoration of a sense of meaning, control, and self-awareness broadens one's thinking, deepens emotional experience, and promotes active engagement with life. Psychological Assessment Psychological assessment can provide a valuable perspective on unconscious styles and patterns of a student's experience, and his or her cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal functioning, as an adjunct to other Bureau services he or she is already receiving. The Bureau provides a setting for a diverse range of brief workshops and ongoing groups that involve sharing of experiences relevant to student life. Students may propose other specific topics. The Bureau works with roommates, suitemates, or student groups to help resolve these conflicts by promoting communication, collaboration, care, compromise, negotiation, and awareness of self-defeating assumptions.
Couples therapy involves resolution of conflict in an intimate relationship.
Awareness of unconscious conflicts and expectations from early-life relational models often clears the field for the couple's renewed mutual enjoyment. The Bureau recruits, orients, and supervises peer tutors, and consults with them or tutees in the resolution of issues that may arise in the course of peer tutoring. In conjunction with the University Health Services, the Bureau provides supervision for peer counseling groups. Advising The staff can offer help in course selection and academic career planning. The Bureau's bound volumes of past final examinations often provide useful information about the subject matter and purposes of a course and the specific focus of the instructor.