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The Psychological Counseling Service

Psychological Counseling: What Is It About?

The University of Tuscia cares about the well-being of its academic community and provides a psychological counseling service.

If you are experiencing emotional or relational difficulties, anxiety, or self-esteem issues related to your academic environment, or if you are struggling with exams and experiencing distress, you will find a safe place here to start addressing the challenges that may be hindering your academic journey and receive expert guidance.

The service is open to all students, staff and professors, completely free, and includes 4 sessions with a psychologist/psychotherapist.

This service can be assisted by the cultural mediator if necessary.

The stages of the psychological counseling process are as follows

  • Initial Welcome and Consultation: The psychological counseling process begins with an initial introductory meeting aimed at providing the user with a space and time to express their concerns, understand their difficulties, and evaluate the start of a targeted counseling journey.
  • Individual Psychological Support: Following the initial consultation, the user may decide to receive individual psychological support. Three sessions are scheduled on a weekly basis, each lasting 50 minutes. The purpose of these sessions is to help the user expand self-awareness, clarify the difficulties experienced in challenging situations, and understand how to address them in the best way.
  • Referral to Other Professionals and Local Mental Health Services: Once the series of 4 counseling sessions is completed, the user may choose to continue with a longer-term intervention (e.g., psychotherapy), or it may be determined that the counseling intervention is not appropriate or is insufficient for the presented difficulty. In such cases, the psychologist can provide the user with useful contacts to seek further assistance.

 

How to proceed?

To book the initial consultation, you need to fill out this Google Form. The requirent will be contacted directly by the specialist to arrange a suitable date for the introductory meeting.

The user will receive an e-mail directly from the specialist to agree on a useful date for the interview, proceeding in order of arrival of the questions that will take place within 20 days after receipt of the request.

At the end of the meetings, in order to evaluate the quality of service you must fill out the following anonymous questionnaire.

It is possible to have the meetings either in person or remotely, in agreement with the professional. Remote consultations will be conducted via Skype, Google Meet, or Zoom, and the access link will be sent to the user on the same day of the appointment to the email address provided during booking. In the case of in-person meetings, it is important to adhere to the COVID-19 safety rules: wear masks, sanitize your hands, and maintain a interpersonal distance of at least one meter.

For any changes to the appointment, it is necessary to inform the secretariat at least three days in advance by sending an email to consulenzapsicologica@unitus.it. In case of a missed appointment without sufficient prior notice, the user will forfeit the right to use the counseling service.

 

The University of Tuscia is the data controller of personal data in accordance with the regulations of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 and the Italian Privacy Code (D.Lgs. 196/2003). This is done in accordance with the principles of human dignity, rights, and fundamental freedoms of the individual.