Self-help: Group Workbooks, Presentations, WellTrack Boost App, Websites, & Videos

The PSU Counseling Center is glad to suggest self-help resources.  The PSU Counseling Center offers these resources as possible suggestions, yet does not necessarily endorse these resources.

Please select from our suggested resources from the left, or by clicking the following links:

Group Workbooks/Presentations

• Anxiety Toolbox focuses on helping students understand anxiety symptoms and build skills to manage those symptoms. The content of this 3 session group includes: (1) understanding anxiety, (2) exploring how thoughts and behaviors impact anxiety, and (3) developing alternative responses to anxiety.  Through this group, students will be able develop their own individualized plan for managing anxiety.
  • Click here for the Anxiety Toolbox Workbook

• Getting Unstuck focuses on helping students understand depressive symptoms and build skills to manage those symptoms. The content of this 3 session group includes: (1) understanding depression, (2) exploring how thoughts and behaviors impact depression, and (3) developing alternative responses to depression.  Through this group, students will be able to develop their own individualized plan for getting unstuck and managing depression.
  • Click here for the Getting Unstuck Workbook

• 3-Steps Forward focuses on building skills and creating flexibility in how to respond to distress. The three sessions are divided into content that builds upon itself. The sessions include modules dedicated to: (1) helping you gain a deeper understanding of your concerns, (2) creating flexibility in how you view and approach these issues, and (3) helping you take steps toward living with a wide range of emotions. By the end of the workshop, students will have a better sense of their personal values and how they want to focus their energy.
  • Click here for the 3-Steps Forward Workbook

• Seeking Serenity focuses on helping students understand emotional distress and building skills to manage challenging emotions. The content of this 3 session group includes: (1) learning about how to more effectively tolerate distress and manage painful emotions, and (2) learning tools to identify and change the things that contribute to distress that are within your capacity to change, and (3) accepting and more effectively managing the things that you are unable to change. Through this group, students will be able develop their own individualized plan for managing emotional distress.
  • Click here for the Seeking Serenity Workbook

• Mental Health and Wellbeing is a presentation that focuses on the themes of resiliency and basic mental health and wellness.  Coping skills and self-care strategies are discussed.  Campus resources are also reviewed.
  • Click here for the Mental Health and Wellbeing presentation

• Finding Motivation and Getting Work Done: Accessing Your Inner Hero is a presentation that focuses on learning to walk the hero’s journey to find one’s motivation/purpose, learn skills, and to work on one’s goals.  This hero’s journey is explored through examples of superheroes, historical figures, athletes, and other heroes.  Campus resources are also reviewed.
  • Click here for the Finding Motivation and Getting Work Done: Accessing Your Inner Hero presentation