The Centre for Counselling & Health Services (CCHS), an integral part of the University, is a student and faculty support service, providing emotional and psychological support, medical first aid and basic health services. CCHS is an enthusiastic team of expert counsellors and Medical Officer , the Centre endeavours to provide a nurturing environment wherein students are empowered to adapt to the dynamic environment, harness the best of their resources and face life challenges while achieving their academic goals.
Counsellors introduce the newly joined students to the system of the university during induction counselling. They brief them about the assessment pattern, dress code, discipline, importance of attendance and also give them information about various centres like CSA and SWO and activities that are conducted throughout the year, like Darpan, Blossoms etc.
Students are encouraged to visit the centre and talk to their counsellors about any issue that they are facing in their lives and they are overwhelmed with it. Personal counselling is offered by the counsellors in a non-judgemental, empathetic and confidential manner, giving the student the freedom to express their thoughts, feelings about the situation that they are facing. Counsellors help the student felt that they are heard, and offer their support by hearing them out and helping them find the best possible solution for their problems.
The centre collaborates with the academic departments to identify students who are facing problems academically and are performing not well in their internal as well as external assessments. They are helped by providing some remedial work and peer-learning, if needed. At the beginning of each semester, students who have not performed well in the previous semester are called in for a session to understand the problem areas of the student and help them overcome it by providing them with remedial solutions, like time management, making use of timetables, taking help of their teachers by talking to them and informing them about their problem areas. The students are helped to overcome their academic issues in an efficient manner.
The centre has conducted psycho-education sessions each semester for the 1st year UG students to make the students aware about certain issues like low self-esteem, managing emotions, substance abuse, behavioural addiction and give them a platform to realise that these issues happen to a lot of young adults and they can overcome it by talking about it and taking help from professionals too, if needed.
Students who have low attendance are met on a fortnight basis by the counsellors and the reasons for low attendance are explored and various intervention strategies are suggested to the student. Students are motivated to attend classes regularly and maintain the required attendance percentage, i.e. 85 percent and above.
EXCELLENCE AND SERVICE
CHRIST (Deemed to be University) is a nurturing ground for an individual's holistic development to make effective contribution to the society in a dynamic environment.
