The Auburn University Psychological Services Center will offer a psychoeducation group for college students that have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

It will be designed for undergraduate or graduate students and will focus on topics that are relevant to college students who have a diagnosis of ADHD.

Topics will include things like learning a variety of study strategies that can be helpful for people who have ADHD, managing stress and mood and making sure that relationships are healthy.

The group will cover different topics each week for six weeks.

Various staff members will lead the meetings so that the group can hear different perspectives at each meeting.

The Psychological Services Center offers assessments for college students who think that they might have ADHD.

In some cases, a student might do well in their middle school and high school years, even though they have ADHD.

Because of this, the student might not receive a diagnosis for ADHD until they go to college and find that the ADHD symptoms then really start to interfere with their academics.

This means that these students have less education about what it means to have ADHD and how to handle it in a college environment.

The Psychological Services Center also provides a range of counseling services that are open to students as well as community members.

The fees at the Psychological Services Center are based on the income of the individual coming in, and vary among patients.

Everyone who works in the Psychological Services Center is a graduate student getting a PHD in clinical psychology.

The graduate students are supervised by licensed clinical psychologists

The most common reasons clients go to the Psychological Services Center are anxiety and depression.

There is another counseling center on campus called the Student Counseling Center.

The Student Counseling Center provides free services to students for up to 10 counseling sessions.

It is common for the students to go there first, unless there is a particular reason why they would prefer going to the Psychological Services Center instead.

Because of this, the Psychological Services Center sees a lot of community members in addition to students.

The other service, Student Counseling Services, exclusively sees Auburn students.

The primary services they provide are individual counseling, group counseling and consultations for when a student, faculty or staff member are concerned about someone, said Brandy Smith, licensed psychologist at Student Counseling Services.

“We also provide outreach for certain events that are going on nationally, or if a professor or someone wants us to come to their class or organization to talk about a particular issue or services, then we will go and provide that outreach,” Smith said.

Staff members include graduate trainees, or graduate clinicians who are pursuing their doctoral degrees in either counseling psychology or clinical psychology, Smith said.

There are no fees for students unless they don’t show up to their appointment or if they cancel or reschedule without giving 24 hours notice.

Student Counseling Services decides which type of counseling would be best for each client by having them do an intake which is divided between computer information that the student fills out and an in-person conversation.

The process for assigning clients to specific clinicians is a different process.

“We address who we have that needs to be assigned to a clinician and we determine it based on three things,” Smith said. “Based on the student’s schedule, based on any counselor preferences the student has and then based on who’s going to be the best clinical fit as far as being able to address the presenting issue.”

Lauren Klipsch, freshman in nursing, said that she would completely trust either one of these services.

Smith said that the top three presenting issues that Student Counseling Services deals with are clients feeling depressed, clients who have anxiety and clients with interpersonal issues that can relate to family, friends or romantic relationships.

The Psychological Services Center will provide the ADHD group every Tuesday, starting March 19, from 5-7 p.m.