Psychological Counselling and Educational Guidance Unit

• Psychological Counselling and Educational Guidance Unit:

Counselling is an interactive relationship between the counsellor and the counselee, through which the counsellor provides a suitable psychological atmosphere that enables the counselee to express himself and become able to make choices and solve the problems he faces. The Counselling Unit is a distinctive field of the applied sciences, as it helps students develop their skills, abilities and potential, which contributes to building their self-confidence and their ability to make decisions, and carries them from the experience of the counselling situation to the experience of life situations. The Educational Guidance Unit is concerned with following up students' problems, such as academic underachievement and family problems that affect the student's performance and academic future. It refers acute psychological problems for psychological treatment and ensures that the students are supported and provided with what they need.

Tasks of the Unit:

1- Holding courses and workshops by unit members on a continuous basis in order to broaden communication with students for educational and psychological rehabilitation in light of university instructions.

2- Holding awareness seminars in all psychological, cultural and social fields.

3- Meeting with students and solving their problems as far as possible.

4- Developing a plan for the educational guidance programme that includes defining the objectives of the programme and identifying students' needs and their educational and psychological problems.

5- Developing social ties with students' parents through visits and meetings.