The skills that underlie successful study behaviors can be taught and learned. They can learn how to learn.
Every student is on a quest for independence.
Each student's quest can be confounded by emotional or psychological issues like stress or poor self-esteem, by struggles with cultural difference or alienation, by frustration with complex course material, by a deficit of coping strategies the list of complications is long. Every part of this program is designed to meet a student at his or her level, explore the student's immediate and long-term goals, and help them find ways to achieve them. Ultimately, a student should eventually find the services of the office unnecessary because he or she has turned academic skills into academic habits.