• For Students: CAPS provides FREE, confidential, psychological counseling and crisis services for registered UCSD students. CAPS also provides a variety of groups, workshops, and drop-in forums. For more information, please visit our Counseling Services page.

• For Parents: CAPS provides consultation services regarding your student . For more information, please visit our. Parent & Families page.

• For Faculty & Staff: CAPS provides consultation services regarding students. For more information, please visit our Faculty & Staff page.

• If you find yourself feeling increasingly sad or upset, withdrawing from others, grades slipping, sleeping more, or feeling less interested in things, come to CAPS.
• If you are thinking about suicide, or harming yourself or others, contact CAPS immediately.
• If you think you may be experiencing depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues, you can take an anonymous Online Assessment.
• CAPS provides brief individual, group, and couples counseling; limited psychiatry services; workshops and outreach programming to students. In order to meet significant student demand and use resources most effectively, CAPS utilizes a short-term, intermittent therapy model, providing brief psychotherapy and referral to specialty care. Most students find that they can get their needs met in 1-5 meetings
• Brief individual and group counseling is provided to address emotional, relationship, or other mental health concerns that interfere with academic and/or personal effectiveness
• Some of the concerns that are commonly addressed in short-term counseling at CAPS are:
  • Personal Concerns: Stress, anxiety, mild to moderate depression, anger, loneliness, guilt, low self-esteem, grief
  • Relationship Concerns: Romantic relationship difficulties, roommate problems, family problems
  • Developmental Concerns: Identity (e.g., personal, cultural, sexual orientation, sexual identity), adjustment to college, life transition
  • Substance Use: Concerns related to mild /moderate alcohol or other drug use/abuse
  • Academic Concerns: Performance/test anxiety, perfectionism, academic difficulties

• Call (858) 534-3755 to schedule a brief telephone assessment (BTA).
• For urgent or crisis matters, please call (858) 534-3755 and ask to speak to the urgent care psychologist.
• If you are thinking about suicide, or harming yourself or others, contact CAPS immediately at (858) 534-3755.
• During non-business hours and holidays, crisis counseling is available at (858) 534-3755 (select Option 2).
• For life-threatening emergencies, please call 911 or go to the nearest hospital.

• During regular business hours, for urgent or crisis matters, please call (858) 534-3755 and ask to speak to the urgent care psychologist.
• If you are thinking about suicide, or harming yourself or others, contact CAPS immediately at (858) 534-3755.
• During non-business hours and holidays, crisis counseling is available at (858) 534-3755 (select Option 2).
• For life-threatening emergencies, please call 911 or go to the nearest hospital.

• Call (858) 534-3755 and ask to speak to the urgent care psychologist for consultation.
• During non-business hours and holidays, crisis counseling is available at (858) 534-3755 (select Option 2).
• For life-threatening emergencies, please call 911.

Wondering if you might want help? You can use our free online mental health screenings for a variety of concerns:

• DEPRESSION
• GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER
• ALCOHOL
• BIPOLAR DISORDER
• EATING DISORDER
• POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

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