OK.....You flunk a test, break up with your girlfriend, and crash your car, all in one month in college. You have more responsibiliites, this gives you more to lose. Depression is much more common among college students than same age peers who do not attend college. Research suggests that college success requires delaying gratification, persisting through adversity, and sacrificing for long-terms goals. Despite the common perception that college is one big party all of the time, the reality instead is that college is an experience that has more than its share of hard times and stressful experiences.

In fact, there has been a substantial increase, in the last 20 years, of students seeking help at campus counseling centers. Most college administrators agree that campus pathologies (unhealthy and self-destructive behaviors) are on a steep rise.

A trend in the reasearch suggests that college students who do not adjust well to college involve themselves in multiple pathologies and self-destructive behaviors including extreme drunkeness, drug use, skipping class, gambling, anorexia/bulimia, unwise sexual activity, and the like.

When such self-destructive behaviors begin to snowball, the resulting avalanche can bury a student for good. It is important to remember that the college transcript is a permanent record. Even if you change colleges, you are required to list all prior college work and this work will be incorporated onto your new colleges transcripts. So, the stakes are high.

The good news is that College Transition Group teaches how to respond to the challenges of college in a way that makes you stronger and more capable rather than falling apart.College Transition Group explores these pathologies and self-destructive behaviors. Learning how to deal with adverse circumstances and events is a fundamental skill that all successful people have developed. College Transition Group shows you how.