Self Help Resources

WLU Counselling Services has developed informational handouts on a variety of personal and performance-related topics. Download and print them from this page, or drop by the Counselling Services office for a free copy.

• Better Body-Esteem
• Business Students 
• Communication Skills
• Coping with Suicidal Thoughts and Feelings
• Expressing Anger, Managing Rage
• Finding Motivation
• Focused Concentration
• Friendship Building: Getting a Conversation Started
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Questioning Students
• Goal Setting for Performance
• Group Work Skills
• Managing Your Inner and Outer Critics
• Mature Students
• Mistake Recovery
• Music Students
• My Goals
• Perform To Your Potential: Managing Exam Anxiety
• Performance Visualizations
• Presenting Reports and Essays
• Responsible Drinking and University Students
• Self-Care List
• Student Athletes
• Students Living in Residence
• Ten-Second Centering For Optimal Performance
• Test Anxiety and Stress Management
• "Top Ten" Tips for Managing Stress
• Understanding and Controlling Procrastination
• "Un-Perfect" Your Performance for Success
• What is Sexual Assault?
• Working With Anxiety While Practicing Music
• Your Basic Rights 

Informational Handouts For:

• Business Students 
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Questioning Students
• Mature Students
• Music Students
• Student Athletes
• Students Living in Residence

The 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