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Counselling & Guidance Service
WHAT DO WE DO?
The Counselling and Guidance Service aims to promote intellectual, emotional and career development by empowering and equipping students through our counselling services.

OUR ACTIVITIES
INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING
We provide you with caring and confidential counselling for:
  • Personal or academic issues
  • Family relationships
  • Emotional and interpersonal issues
  • Adjustment to university life
  • Choice of fields of study
  • Confidence and self-esteem issues
GROUP COUNSELLING
In addition to individual counselling, we also offer group counselling which involves a small group of students who share similar concerns or problems. Through discussion and mutual support, the group members come to recognise, understand and overcome their difficulties.

TALKS, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
  • Campus Adjustment Workshop

  • Campus Adjustment Workshop serves as a primary support for UTAR freshmen during their transition period at the commencement of their life in UTAR.
  • Career Guidance Workshop

  • This workshop is typically provided for students who are indecisive in their choice of field of study or career. The workshop helps them discover their interest, ability and personality in order to determine the fields best suited to their personality.
  • Learning Skills Workshop

  • Learning is a change in a person that comes about as a result of experience. Learning takes place constantly. Learning Skills Workshop aim to expose the knowledge of human learning patterns and behaviours and equip students to acquire new learning habits.
  • Breathing Relaxation Workshop

  • Students will be taught a respiratory technique to help them to breathe more efficiently in order to generate a soothing, relaxing and calming effect. This technique is often associated with muscle relaxation, imagery, yoga practice and meditation.
  • Movies Review

  • Movie reflect human characteristics, emotions and thinking in an artistic way. Movie Review session is aimed to sharpen students' observation skills and deepen their understanding towards the diversity of human behaviours.
PEER HELPING PROGRAMME
The Peer Helping Programme has been designed to provide students with the basic counselling skills. The purpose is to equip and empower UTAR students, to provide a listening ear and care to other fellow students and the community through mutual-help relationship.

PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST
  • John Holland Self Directed Search
  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator
  • Leonard Personality Inventory
WHO IS A COUNSELLOR?
A counsellor is trained in counselling skills and abides by the ethics of the counselling profession.

COUNSELLING SERVICES
We provide caring and confidential counselling on a one-to-one basis. Students with career, academic and personal issues are welcome to walk-in or make appointment to see our counsellors.
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