Vision:
The unit seeks to achieve a distinguished and pioneering position in providing services, psychological counseling, and training for all segments of society and to be a role model in this field.
Mission:
Providing appropriate service to achieve mental health and compatibility, developing the capabilities of Academic staff, their assistants, students, and workers at Aswan University, and providing community services for ordinary individuals and people with special needs of all ages.
Goals:
The unit aims to:
- Providing training and psychological, social, and administrative consultations for community institutions.
- Providing guidance and psychological counseling services, whether therapeutic, marital, family or youth counseling, for ordinary or people with special needs.
More about goals
The unit aims to:
- Providing training and psychological, social, and administrative consultations for community institutions.
- Providing guidance and psychological counseling services, whether therapeutic, marital, family, and youth counseling, for ordinary or people with special needs.
- Providing psychological, professional, and administrative counseling services, especially for some cases that suffer from behavioral disorders that impede them from psychological and professional adaptation.
- Providing training programs for nurses, psychologists and social workers, teachers and researchers in the field of psychology and special education who work with students.
- Holding counseling courses and programs in management Psychology and professional and psychological rehabilitation for workers in various professional fields to rehabilitate their employees and increase their professional competencies.
- Preparing Mentoring programs for young people inside and outside the university aimed at protecting them intellectually from destructive intellectual currents and behavioral deviations.
- Calling for holding local, Arab, and international scientific symposiums and conferences in the fields of psychological counseling.
- Conducting studies and research in the field of psychological guidance and counseling.
- Identifying some of the fears of the student, the trainer, and the psychological counselor to adapt to the different situations to which he is exposed during his work, removing many of his fears, thus providing him with an atmosphere that encourages sustainable professional development. guide and try to support them with some directions that make them avoid and overcome these fears.
- Giving the student, the trainer, and the psychological counselor the opportunity to adapt to the different situations he is exposed to during his work and removing many of his fears, thus providing him with an atmosphere that encourages sustainable professional development.
- It helps the student, the trainer and the psychological counselor to discover his capabilities in training and to know what solutions suit him.
- Providing the trainer and psychological counselor during the service with positive trends towards the profession of training and psychological counseling, among which are the values of belonging and loyalty to the homeland and the development of cultural identity.
- Introducing the coach and psychological counselor to the existing and expected problems and difficulties and practicing professional ethics.
Achievements:
1-Participation in the deans’ session with two lectures in October 2022.
2-The University’s Vice President commissioned seminars on psychology and its function in students’ environmental behavior.
Based on the recommendations of the Climate Change Conference, Vice-University President for Student Affairs and Education commissioned seminars titled Psychology and its Role in the Environmental Behavior of University Students.
3-Community participation visits to discuss the challenges they encounter and how to treat them for:
a. Aswan New Official Language School, on 11/22/2022.
B. Naguib Mahfouz French Language School on 5/1/2023.
C . Muhammad Makkawi Yacoub Language School on 25/2/2023.
School principals, instructors, and some students gather to examine violent behavior in the school, its causes, factors influencing it, and treatment options; and to advise parents and kids on how to deal with it.
4-On March 20, 2023, a visit to the Health Technical Institute in Aswan to discuss students’ behavioral, psychological, and academic concerns.
5- Develop a program in collaboration with Vice-University President for Student Affairs and Education to address academic issues that lead to university student failure in various faculties.
Administrative structure:
The unit’s board of directors is formed by a decision from the University president for a period of (3) years, subject to renewal, based on a proposal from the Vice President for Community Service and Environment Development, as follows:
More about administrative structure
The unit’s board of directors is formed by a decision from University president for a period of (3) years, subject to renewal, based on a proposal from the Vice President for Community Service and Environment Development, as follows:
- University President as Chairman of Board of Directors
- Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environment Development as Vice Chairman of Board of Directors
- Prof. Medhat Altaf Abbas_ Emeritus Professor of Mental Health_ Executive Director of the Unit
- Dr. Abeer El-Tuni_ Professor of Neurology and Assistant Psychotherapy_ Member
- Dr. Mohamed El-Nimer Othman_ Lecturer of neurology and psychotherapy_ Member
- Dr. Iman Mahmoud Hafez_ Assistant Professor of Nursing_ Acting as Dean of Faculty of Nursing as a member
- Dr. Intisar Gad Al-Mawla_Assistant Professor of Nursing_ Acting as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Nursing as a member
- Dr. Fatma Al-Zahraa Mohamed Hassan_Doctorate in Mental Health_ as a member
- Dr. Zainab Mohamed Hassan_Doctorate in Mental Health_ Member
- Mr. Khaled Ismail Asran_ Assistant Secretary of the University_ Financial and Administrative Officer.
- The unit secretariat is appointed by the university president.
The Board of Directors may include in its membership two (2) members from outside the university with technical expertise, taking into account the compliance with the Article (311) of the Executive Regulations of Law No. 49 of 1972.
Programs:
The training, psychological counseling, and human development unit program operates as follows:
1 -Academic Staff Program.
2-Special programs for university employees.
3-Student Programs for.
4- Community Service Programs.
5-Psychological Counseling and Human Development.
First, Academic Staff Programs:
1. Capacity development programs.
2-Soft Skills Programs.
3- Quality management software.
4-Self-development and work stress Programs.
5-Crisis management programs.
6- Communication methods programs.
7-Scientific publishing programs.
Second, University Staff Programs:
– Training programs for administrative professionals
-Arranging work programs and preparing events
-Programs for inspiration and decision-making
-Programs for mentoring and leadership
-Training programs for communicative abilities
-Personal skill-building initiatives
Third, Students Programs:
-Developing personal and self-skills programs.
-Communication skills programs.
– Guidance programs.
– Specialized programs.
| Serial No. | Course name | Duration of the course | Students’ course value | Gradutes’ course value | Participants |
| 1 | Psychologist ethics | day (five hours) | 100 l.e | 200 l.e | 50 |
| 2 | Behavioral therapy | 2 days (10 hours) | 200 l.e | 300 l.e | 50 |
| 3 | Cognitive therapy | 2 days (10 hours) | 200 l.e | 300 l.e | 50 |
| 4 | Rational emotive therapy | 2 days (10 hours) | 200 l.e | 300 l.e | 50 |
| 5 | Psychoanalysis | 2 days (10 hours) | 200 l.e | 300 l.e | 50 |
| 6 | Methods of assessment and psychological diagnosis | 2 days (10 hours) | 200 l.e | 300 l.e | 50 |
| 7 | Preparing psychometrics | 2 days (10 hours) | 200 l.e | 300 l.e | 50 |
| 8 | Behavior modification methods | 2 days (10 hours) | 200 l.e | 300 l.e | 50 |
| 9 | Wechsler intelligence tests | 3 days (15 hours) | 250 l.e | 300 l.e | 50 |
| 10 | Stanford Binet test | 4 days (20 hours) | 300 l.e | 400 l.e | 50 |
Behavioral Programs:
-Improving Thinking Capabilities
-Learning Difficulties
-The academic dealing with children and adolescents
-How to handle your issues and maintain calmness
-The ability to relate, communicate with others, and persuade them.
-Time management skill
-Find out who you are, get to know yourself, and start a new life.
-How to manage your emotions and moods, and boost your motivation.
-Thinking Strategies.
-Taking Decision Technical.
-Strategy Marketing Technical.