Self Help Resources

WLU Counselling Services has produced several Performance Coaching presentations available here on-line:

• Competition Skills:  The Inner Game of Performing
• Speak with Confidence: Performance Enhancement for Class Participation and Presentations 
• FOCUS: Maintaining Concentration and Overcoming Memory Blocks
• Managing Your Inner and Outer Critics
• The University Athlete’s Guide to Performing to Potential
• Optimize Your Musical Performance:  Enhancing Your Student-Teacher Relationships
• Self-Talk for Motivation:  In School, Sports, Music, Life
• Unlock your Power to be Stress Resilient
• Conquering Procrastination

Other On-Line Resources 

Listed below are resources which may be of interest to you. Wilfrid Laurier University does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external sites. Links will open in new window.

1.  Counselling Center at the University of Illinois has produced a series of brochures on a variety of topics of interest to students. These brochures include general information as well as helpful tips on dealing with the issue addressed.

Academic Difficulties:

• Dissertation Success Strategies
• Overcoming Procrastination
• Perfectionism
• Test Anxiety
• Time Management
• A Student’s Guide to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Adjustment to College Life:

• Adjustment to College
• Sleep Hygiene
• Committed Relationships and School
• First-Generation College Students

Alcohol/Drug Abuse and Addictions:

• Adult Children of Alcoholics
• Gambling and College Students

Depression:

• Understanding and Treating Depression
• Suicide Prevention

Diversity and Cultural Differences:

• Asian American Psychological Wellness
• First-Generation College Students
• Coming Out

Eating and Body Image Concerns:

• Body Size Diversity and Acceptance
• Maybe I Have an Eating Problem
• Maybe I Have a Friend with an Eating Disorder
• Eating + Body Image Concerns

Family Difficulties:

• Adult Children of Alcoholics
• Emotional Abuse
• Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse
• Understanding Dysfunctional Relationship Patterns in Your Family
• When Your Parent Has A Mental Illness
• Your Parents’ Divorce

Relationship Problems:

• Emotional Abuse
• Addictive Relationships
• Being Assertive in a Diverse World
• Loneliness

Grief and Loss:

• Grief and Loss
• Surviving Psychological Trauma

LGBT Concerns:

• Coming Out
• Committed Relationships and School

Recovering from Trauma:

• Emotional Abuse
• For Loved Ones Of Sexual Assault/Abuse Survivors
• Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse
• Surviving Psychological Trauma

Self-Awareness/Self-Care:

• Experiencing and Expressing Emotions
• Self-Confidence
• Sleep Hygiene

Stress and Anxiety:

• Stress Management
• Understanding and Treating Anxiety

2.  Go Ask Alice! is the health question-and-answer Internet service produced by Columbia University’s Health Education Program. This site has three primary features:

• New GAA! Q&As of the Week gives you the most recently published inquiries and responses — this section is updated every Friday.
• Search GAA! lets you search for health information by subject in the ever-growing Go Ask Alice! archives, which contain nearly 3,000 previously-posted questions and answers.
• Ask Alice! lets you submit a question.

3.  Virtual Pamphlet Collection is an unabridged collection of self-help pamphlets from North American universities. Topics include: anger, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, sexual assault, wellness, and more.