University of California, Santa Barbara, Counseling and Career Services Collection, 1967-2006

Summary

Creators:

University of California, Santa Barbara. Counseling and Career Services

Abstract:

The UCSB Counseling and Career Services collection contains event, workshop, service and group flyers, brochures, publications on related issues, materials for faculty, and other documents.

Extent:

0.2 linear feet (1 half-sized document box)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

University of California, Santa Barbara, Counseling and Career Services Collection. UArch 47. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

UCSB's Counseling Services provides a variety of means of support to students, including individual and group counseling, stress management services, programs for faculty and staff in recognizing student distress, and other services. Career Services assists students in transitioning from college to the workplace or further graduate education via placement services, job fairs, internships, and other services.

A brief history from their website follows:

"The Counseling Center and Placement Center at UCSB were merged in November 1979 as an integrated service, with career planning as the unifying concept for the agency at that time. In 1984, after five years of planning, the counseling and placement departments moved into a new building specifically designed for these services, and the combined unit became known as Counseling & Career Services. Starting in 2005, administrative realities and subsequent decisions were made which resulted in the two functions, counseling and career, again being separated into two distinct agencies. Both agencies continue to share the same building and look to be one unit to the outside world. They continue to recognize that personal and career development are interrelated growth processes that occur along a continuum from self-assessment and self-understanding to eventual employment and life/career satisfaction.

"The major service delivery functions of Counseling are personal counseling, crisis intervention, groups and consultation/outreach. Auxiliary and support functions include training, research and evaluation, organizational and staff development and administrative assistance. The services with which interns have the most contact are counseling, crisis intervention, groups, and consultation/outreach.

"Counseling services include individual and group counseling for personal, social, educational, and career concerns; workshops for interpersonal skill building and problem solving; personal development resources for self-improvement in areas such as stress reduction and anxiety; and crisis intervention in personal and campus emergencies.

"Special efforts have been made to extend counseling services to diverse student populations. Liaisons have been established with the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), Disabled Students Program (DSP), the Women's Center, Housing and Residential Life, and The Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (RCSGD). Interns have opportunities to explore multicultural counseling issues through these outreach programs and during case discussions and training seminars."

(from http://www.counseling.ucsb.edu/APAPsychInternship/index.aspx?page=APAsbcommunity)

For more information see their websites:

http://www.counseling.ucsb.edu/

http://career.ucsb.edu/

The collection contains event, workshop, service and group flyers, brochures, publications on related issues, materials for faculty, and other documents.

Acquisition information:

Undetermined.

Physical location:

Del Sur, University Archives, 24B.

Rules or conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Related resources

Related material:

In University Archives:

• Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) records, UArch 20, and Women's Center collection, UArch 44, for similar support services.
• Seeds, Counseling Center publication separated from collection in University Archives, Serials Short Runs.
• Files on Counseling Center and Counseling and Career Services in the Office of Public Information subject files, UArch 12.
• Counseling and Career Services folder in Broadsides and Posters collection, UArch 32.
• Student Health Services collection, UArch 62.

In Special Collections:

• Student problems : some thoughts for UCSB parents. University of California, Santa Barbara, College of Letters and Science and the Counseling Center, 1967. Special Collections LA229 .S717 1967.
• On the streets of Isla Vista : a study of street and road people in Isla Vista during the summer of 1970. Presented as a public service by the Counseling Center, University of California at Santa Barbara and the Isla Vista Switchboard. Special Collections and Special Collections Reading Room F869.I84 U555 1970.

Counseling Services website: http://www.counseling.ucsb.edu/

Career Services website: http://career.ucsb.edu/

Separated material:

Seeds, Counseling Center publication separated from collection in University Archives, Serials Short Runs.

Indexed terms

Names:

University of California, Santa Barbara. Counseling and Career Services

Restrictions:

None.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

University of California, Santa Barbara, Counseling and Career Services Collection. UArch 47. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:

UC Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections

UC Santa Barbara Library

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US

Contact:

(805) 893-3062

special@library.ucsb.edu

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