The psychological counselling service for students and doctoral students is working again!
Students and doctoral students of the University of Wrocław will also be able to count on free psychological support in the Psychological Counselling Centre under the care of docent Alina Czapiga in the academic year 22/23. If you feel you need support, please email from your university inbox to poradnia.psychologiczna@uwr.edu.pl.
The aim of the counselling centre is to promote mental health and to provide short-term psychological assistance to people in need – in accordance with the principles of scientific and practical knowledge, in a way that protects the well-being of those receiving assistance.
The main task of the Counselling Centre: to provide support and assistance in coping with difficult and crisis situations, to identify psychological problems and to determine forms of assistance.
The counselling centre ensures that consultations are confidential. Disclosure of information covered by professional secrecy is permissible when:
– there is or may be a threat to the health, life or safety of the person using the Counselling Centre or others;
– maintaining professional secrecy can lead to a breach of the law;
– disclosure of confidential information to another person or institution is necessary for the therapy and/or treatment process.
Support is provided in the form of individual face-to-face consultations, for which registration is mandatory via e-mail from the @uwr.edu.pl domain to: poradnia.psychologiczna@uwr.edu.pl
During epidemic emergencies or other crisis situations, psychological consultations are conducted remotely using MS Teams from the MS Office 365 package of the University of Wrocław using accounts in the @uwr.edu.pl domain. Electronic registration is mandatory.
The Counselling Centre is used by:
1. Individuals who experience difficulties in social relationships (with relatives and with the peer group), feel lonely, seek answers to questions about the permanence/unsustainability of partnerships; individuals who have problems with controlling their emotions and impulsivity; who are dominated by negative emotional states: anger, sadness, dissatisfaction, anxiety or persistent competitive tendencies, conflictiveness, negative attitudes towards self and others. We talk to people who have decision-making problems in life-important matters, who are experiencing moral dilemmas, who have experienced an emotional crisis, sometimes with trauma characteristics; they have low self-esteem and inadequate self-esteem. Such emotional states and problems and experiences affect the process of studying and coping at the University.
2. Students who have an assessment of the type and degree of motor, sensory, mental disabilities.
Among students with a disability diagnosis, the following benefit from consultation: those with autism spectrum and sensory impairment. Main issues: how to learn effectively, how to deal with emotions, how to tell the group and the tutors about your problems, how to make interpersonal contacts, how to understand your own and others’ behaviour, etc. These tasks are carried out every year in the Psychological Counselling Service.
3. Students who could have obtained a disability certificate for mental health reasons but did not undergo a diagnosis.
4. Foreign students with adaptation problems in a new academic environment.
5. Students with mental health problems. The main problems are: lowered mood states, anxiety, depression and anxiety states and disorders. The problem most often indicated was family relationships, often disruption in these relationships and problems in wider social relationships.
6. Research and teaching staff experiencing problematic situations that hindered teaching (conflicts, aggressive behaviour, mental crises in classes, etc.)
7. Assistants for people with disabilities.
