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Counseling's mission is to provide College of Charleston students with services that support persistence and success in school. Counseling (also called psychotherapy) is a process where someone seeks help for problems of an emotional nature. By establishing a positive trusting relationship, counselors help individuals cope with the problem, mature and grow, and learn more about themselves in the process.

Counseling and Substance Abuse Services (CASAS) provides counseling for individual, couple, family and relationship concerns. CASAS also offers assessment and treatment for alcohol and substance abuse problems as well as testing for possible learning problems. Other limited psychiatric services are also available.

CASAS utilizes a strength-based, short-term model. Short term treatment works because it builds upon an individual's strengths and resources. Research has found that a short-term approach to treatment is effective in bringing about lasting change for 83% of people within five sessions or less.

Suicide Awareness and Prevention Program

Help for Friends Who Lose Someone to Suicide

Counseling and Substance Abuse Services has posted helpful information for dealing the loss of someone to suicide at www.cofc.edu/~counseling/suicide.html.