Counseling and
Educational Development
The Nicholas A. Vacc Counseling and Consulting Clinic
Clinic Facility
The Nicholas A. Vacc Counseling and Consulting Clinic is a state-of-the-art facility that offers a wide variety of resources for both counseling students and community members at large. The Clinic facilities, housed on the second floor of the Ferguson Building on the UNCG campus, provide ample opportunity for counseling, supervision, play therapy, and scheduled meetings. The Clinic is comprised of 27 rooms, available for a variety of purposes. There also are two conference rooms which seat up to 12 for meetings or classes. Twelve rooms are designed to allow students the space and facilities to conduct counseling and counseling-related activities. Of these rooms, eight are direct observation rooms complete with one-way mirrors; most have videotaping capabilities. The spacious observation deck and videotaping capabilities allow for live supervision and student observations. Students may rent videotapes from the Vacc Clinic staff for their individual use. All videotapes are kept secure on site and are not allowed to leave the Clinic premises for confidentiality reasons. Students may view their videotapes in the Clinic during its normal operating hours.
The Clinic not only provides rooms for counseling and counseling-related experiences; it also houses several resources for the counseling student. Two large graduate assistant offices located in the Clinic are used by doctoral students with clinic-related responsibilities. The Clinic houses a test library that contains many current tests and instruction manuals used in the counseling field. Whether for a class assignment, a doctoral dissertation, or simply to further personal knowledge, students are able to access materials to become more familiar with test administration and interpretation. The Clinic also maintains an extensive resource library of textbooks, reference guides, and numerous counseling-related journals which a student may use to assist their growth as a clinician, researcher, and academic.
The Vacc Counseling and Consulting Clinic is not only a resource for counseling students, but also a resource for the University student body (undergraduate and graduate) and the surrounding community-at-large.
Each year the Clinic staff work closely with the Office of Student Affairs to assist in providing services for both alcohol/other drug use and anger management. Students who have violated the University's alcohol and/or drug policy may be referred to the Substance Information Program (SIP), which offers both psycho-educational seminars and individual clinical assessments. The seminar engages participants in information about alcohol use among college populations using a social norming approach. The assessment processes is for violations that may be indicative of greater risk for abuse and provides individualized evaluation and feedback using a standardized instrument, the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI). The Clinic also provides analogous assessment, educational and counseling services through our Anger Management Program (AMP) using the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) to help identify helpful alternatives for expressing anger.
The Making Better Choices seminar is geared toward enhancing productive and ethical decision-making. This two hour class is conducted in a small-group, interactive format to allow students the opportunity to discuss how they currently make decisions and to process as a group how to improve their skills. Led by counseling interns, the seminar teaches an innovative decision making model that students can explore and apply to their personal experiences.
All services are focused on positive outcomes for the student and allow Clinic staff to utilize evidence-based interventions related to these issues.
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Housed conveniently in the second floor of the Ferguson Building, at the corner of Spring Garden and Highland Avenues, next to the Curry Building.
223 Ferguson Building
cedclinic@uncg.edu
Phone: 336.334.5112
Fax: 336.256.0121