Center for Counseling & Student Development

Purpose Statement

Coppin State University Center for Counseling and Student Development (CCSD) is dedicated to the academic mission of Coppin State University by providing services and programs that help students preserve their emotional well-being in order to attain their educational goals and pursuits. The program is staffed by licensed psychologists, social workers, certified addictions specialists, professional counselors, and peer counselors. CCSD staff recognizes that students of all ages face unique life circumstances; therefore, students' college years are optimally a time of challenge, inquiry, experimentation, self reflection, value clarification, spiritual development, and change. Throughout our journey in life we all experience change.

Some times, this change is orderly, logical, and comprehensible. Other times, this change can be chaotic, mystifying and confusing. The staff of CCSD believes that the college experience extends over developmental phases. These growth phases are best characterized by phases of crisis, adjustments, adaptation, conflict resolution, and integration. Our services are designed to assist students develop coping skills to conquer the vicissitudes of life, to manage crises, and to help them flourish in meaningful ways.

The CCSD program provides a plethora of support services that will enable students to grow in self-understanding and make more fulfilling and healthier utilization of their personal and interpersonal resources. Individual interactions, group therapies, faculty/staff consultation, teaching, research, and numerous outreach activities/involvements are some of the primary means by which the mission will be achieved. It is our objective to help create and maintain a nourishing, healthy, diverse community through relationship building, education, and crisis prevention. When crises do transpire, it is our goal to provide timely, judicious, appropriate interventions and garner community support to help alleviate any far reaching aftereffects. The CCSD staff will make efforts to evaluate our work and its impact through assessment, feedback, research, and staff discourse. We value time for staff development and reflection. The mission of the CCSD program is to provide support for the University's academic goals by assisting in decreasing student and faculty/staff stress, promoting a healthy environment, and improving retention rates.

Interested students will receive assistance in focusing on personal, social, and academic growth and discovery, contributing to students' motivation, performance, and overall satisfaction with the University.

The staff of Coppin State University Center for Counseling and Student Development encourages students to avail themselves of the department's service.