The Counseling and Testing Center offers clinical counseling, art therapy and testing services to individuals, groups, organizations or the general public. We agree to respect the rights of those persons seeking our assistance and make reasonable efforts to ensure that our services are used appropriately. We do not discriminate against or refuse professional service to anyone on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. The gender, cultural and ethnic diversity of the Counseling and Testing Center staff is representative of Wayne State University's equal opportunity and affirmative action policies.

We have a primary obligation to respect the confidentiality of our clients and the information obtained during the counseling and testing sessions. We reveal such information to others only with the consent of the person or the person's legal representative, except in those unusual circumstances in which not doing so would result in clear danger to the person or to others. Certain situations exist in which information about clients may be released without their permission. These situations are as follows:

1. Where children are physically abused, neglected or sexually abused, the proper authorities (e.g., police, state division of child protective services) must be notified.
2. In emergency situations where there may be danger to the client or others, as with homicide or suicide, confidentiality may be broken.

The Counseling and Testing Center is part of an advanced graduate educational program in which counselors-in-training serve under licensed professional faculty supervision. Therefore, sessions are audio and/or videotape recorded, with the tapes restricted to use in counselor training and supervision.

Use of information derived from a counseling relationship for the purpose of counselor training or research is confined to content that can be disguised to ensure full protection of the identity of the client.

The Counseling and Testing Center subscribes to all the ethical standards, principles and codes of the:

• American Counseling Association
• American Psychological Association
• American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
• Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification
• American Art Therapy Association

The services described herein adhere to all applicable laws, statutes, rules and regulations governing the provision of the proposed services to the general public in Detroit and the State of Michigan.

• Counseling Center Services

  Our goals

  1. Facilitate behavior change
  2. Improve the client's ability to establish and maintain relationships
  3. Enhance the client's ability to cope
  4. Promote the decision-making process
  5. Facilitate client potential and development

  Services

  Specifically, the Counseling and Testing Center provides specialized support services to enhance the client's self-esteem, self-confidence, self-awareness and their ability to accept responsibility, eliminate self-defeating and/or abusive activities, thereby solidifying their long-term personal and professional relationships, job prospects and career opportunities. Additionally, the Counseling and Testing Center provides assessment and vocational information services. These specialized support services include:

  • Individual and group counseling aimed to assist clients in making realistic vocational choices, to resolve problems in interpersonal functioning and eliminate self-defeating and/or abusive activities.
  • Standardized basic educational and life skills assessment.
  • Substance abuse assessment.
  • Specialized assessment for vocational interests and vocational aptitudes
  • Art therapy for individuals and groups using the approaches of non-verbal and/or creatively expressed counseling.

  Faculty

  Faculty representatives from the participating departments assume primary responsibility for the direction of the diagnostic and therapeutic work with the clients and provide close supervision of student clinical activity. All graduate students providing clinical services receive a minimum of one and a half hours of group supervision weekly from a faculty member who is a Licensed Professional Counselor and/or Registered Art Therapist. Additionally, all graduate students providing clinical services receive a minimum of one hour of individual weekly face-to-face supervision from an advanced doctoral student. The intensity of graduate student involvement with clients varies widely from student to student, with most students spending six hours per week in practicum or twenty hours per week in internship experiences.

  Note: The Counseling and Testing Center works only on the hours of operation as Wayne State University. If the University is closed or closes due to inclement weather, counseling sessions will not be held.

• Background of the Counseling and Testing Center

  The Counseling and Testing Center currently serves as the on-campus practicum and internship site for clinical training of graduate students in several academic programs. As a training unit, the Counseling and Testing Center provides comprehensive mental health services for students and the local community. Services offered include:

  • Individual and group counseling
  • Substance abuse testing
  • Educational and life skills assessment
  • Marriage and family counseling
  • Rehabilitation counseling
  • Career and vocational counseling
  • Art therapy

  Each year, approximately 100 graduate students work with clients in the Counseling and Testing Center. Typical client issues include: a) self-concept enhancement, b) relationship issues, c) remarriage and step family issues, d) depression, e) substance abuse issues, f) career counseling, g) life transitions, h) eating disorders, i) parenting and child discipline, j) coping with loss and k) other mental health issues.

  The Counseling and Testing Center also serves as a major campus research setting for clinically-oriented research projects conducted by staff members, departmental faculty and graduate students.

  Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of the Counseling and Testing Center, there are opportunities to work with students and faculty from various departments. In some cases, advanced doctoral students also serve as departmental clinical instructors/supervisors, so their clinical activities contribute to the development of their teaching skills. In addition, students and faculty from different departments serve as co-therapists and often help each other in peer supervision.

• Clients' rights and responsibilities

  Clients have the right to:

  • Be informed about their therapy and to make autonomous decisions pertaining to it
  • Expect that therapy will increase their chances of functioning independently
  • The guarantee that their disclosures in therapy sessions will be respected
  • Have adequate information concerning the nature and anticipated course of therapy

  Clients have a responsibility to:

  • Assist in maintaining the confidential character and professional clinical atmosphere of the Counseling and Testing Center
  • Respect the time and scheduling efforts of the Counseling and Testing Center staff. If unable to keep a scheduled appointment, clients are obligated to notify the Counseling and Testing Center staff
• Fee Schedule

  The Center is committed to providing counseling services to urban area residents at no cost. It is desired that all persons receiving services commit to a minimum of five (5) weekly sessions.

  All faculty members are licensed by the State of Michigan, Board of Counseling. Should a client wish to file a complaint regarding counseling services, the following address is provided:

  Michigan Department of Community Health
  Health Regulation Division
  P.O. Box 30670
  Lansing, MI 48909