ABSTRACT
This chapter explores applications of the humanistic perspective to contemporary college counseling. Although college counseling professionals—including professional counselors, psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatrists, and others working in counseling centers, mental health centers, health centers and other offices on 2- and 4-year college and university campuses—tend to be more visible during crises such as the April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech shooting tragedy, they serve student mental health needs every day. In fact, an estimated 1.5 million students are served annually by college counseling centers on U.S. campuses (Gallagher, 2009). In turn, staff members of counseling and mental health centers on college campuses have a unique opportunity to positively impact the lives of a wide range of late adolescents, young adults, and nontraditionally aged learners.
