- Choosing a career path (more focus on personal
and academic life and job opportunities)
- Increased commitment to intimate relationships
including friendships and a better sense of interdependence.
- Better sense of values clarification.
- Increased self-confidence in purpose, role, beliefs
etc...
Common
Struggles:
- Concerns with career path
- Relationship issues
- Struggles with feelings
of anxiety, depression and confusion.
- Decision making difficulties
- Family problems
- Using unhealthy and nonproductive
coping behaviors such as binge drinking, unprotected sex, frequent
one-night stands, anger outbursts, isolating self.
Resources on
Campus:
- Counseling Center
- Student Academic Resource Center (SARC)
- Multicultural and Academic Student Services (MASS)
- Student Activities
- Career Resource Center
- Academic Advisors
- Victim Services
*Reminder that all traditional aged college students
don't always fit into neat categories. Other factors such as ethnicity,
gender, sexual orientation, disabilities influence developmental processes.