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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
“All illnesses come from nerves,” people say, and for good reason. Constant stress is not at all harmless, and sometimes we do not even guess what serious consequences can result from worries about personal troubles or events happening in the world, anxiety and worry, fear of failure and hyper-responsibility, and other similar things. To maintain mental health and performance, it is better to seek help from a specialist in a timely manner.
The Polytechnic University has created a special facility for this purpose. Center for psychological support, where both students and university staff can share their problems with professionals and try to solve or reduce them together. Parents of students can also get useful advice there.
In 2024, the staff of the Psychological Support Center conducted 931 individual consultations and 49 group sessions for two thousand people. In social networks, Polytechnic psychologists answered more than 140 questions over the year.
Most often, students seek help due to anxiety and stress, conflicts with parents, low self-esteem, apathy and procrastination, fears and phobias, separation from a partner, difficulty adapting to a team, and experiences from the loss of loved ones.
To work with psychological problems, the center’s specialists use, in addition to conversations, various practices: games, online courses, healthy lifestyle master classes, improving emotional intelligence and psychological stability, educational courses for student activists. They teach, for example, how to quickly and safely adapt to changes, how to maintain yourself at a good physical and mental level. Qualified psychologists demonstrate practices for developing physical and mental health and techniques of mental self-regulation, conduct seminars on psychological well-being in professional and educational activities, proactivity as a factor in a healthy personality, and self-development trainings.
In addition to intra-university events, the center’s staff is engaged in psychological education of schoolchildren, thereby strengthening the ties between the school and the university.
The specialists of the Center for Psychological Support of SPbPU are members of the community of psychologists of St. Petersburg universities and constantly improve their qualifications by participating in major professional events, such as the All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation “Psychological Service of the University: Problems and Development Prospects” (April 2024) and the All-Russian seminar-meeting of psychologists of higher education organizations (June 2024).
Our Center for Psychological Support “Tochka Opory” is a place where everyone who turns to us will receive the support and participation they need. We sincerely believe that the main task of any person is to be themselves and be happy, realizing their potential to the fullest. We know that difficulties are inevitable, and there is not always the strength to cope with them on your own. So we always stand guard over the mental health and well-being of each polytechnic student, says Acting Director of the Center for Psychological Support Anna Kalugina.
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