Welcome Graduate and Professional Students. We are very excited to introduce the graduate and professional tab as a new addition to our web site. As the liaison to graduate and professional students, I have been focused on gathering information to better serve your needs.

We realize how busy our graduate and professional students are and we offer a variety of resources to help you manage your multiple demands. Mort Silverman, senior adviser at the National Suicide Prevention Technical Resource Center in Newtown, Massachusetts, indicates that graduate school--with its competitive climate, relative seclusion in the lab or library, myriad of financial concerns, and constant worries about future employment--is rife with potential psycho-social triggers (US News & World Report, 2005)*. The good news is that prevention can have a huge impact on the likelihood of these stressors taking their toll. While most graduate student believe they do not have time to be preventative, they eventually find out that prevention strategies are just as important as most of their academic duties. It is important to be aware of our own tolerance levels and to attend to our most basic needs such as proper nutrition and sleep.

Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) offers individual, couples, and group counseling to all enrolled graduate and professional students who pay registration fees including the Medical School and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Our services can assist you with balancing time, managing stress and anxiety, and maintaining adequate relationships. Feel free to review all of the online resources available to you. CAPS would like to help you find the right balance between your academic and personal life so you can flourish at UCSD.

*US News and World Report, April 11, 2005 Contents under pressure, by Carolyn Kleiner Butler.