Abstract

The University of Greenwich located in south-east London has a diverse student population from more than a hundred countries that comprises a community of approximately 4000. To support its students the university has a confidential individual counselling service and I was given the opportunity to provide psychiatric supervision to three permanent counsellors over the 2006/2007 academic year.

Highlights

  • The student counselling services have reported a rise in the severity of mental health problems presenting in students (Association for University and College Counselling, 2002)

  • Counselling for students in the UK is coordinated by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy; Heads of University Counselling Services, a special interest group of the Association for University and College Counselling have developed a website on student counselling where they provide information about the support available

  • They reported seeing an increase in the number of students with mental health issues and those diagnosed with mental health problems

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Summary

YOGESH GANESHALINGAM

Psychiatric supervision of student university counsellors: a specialist registrar’s perspective. The University of Greenwich located in south-east London has a diverse student population from more than a hundred countries that comprises a community of approximately 4000. To support its students the university has a confidential individual counselling service and I was given the opportunity to provide psychiatric supervision to three permanent counsellors over the 2006/ 2007 academic year

Student mental health
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