Stress Management Centre
Coordinator :
Dr. Siddhartha Sankar Dash
Medical Officer
Email : mo@mail.vidyasagar.ac.in
About :
The Stress Management Centre aims at helping students to reach their highest academic and personal potential. This primarily involves helping students to solve their personal and career-related concerns and thereby encouraging their holistic wellness and equipping them with tools towards success.
The Centre provides a comfortable atmosphere in which students can discuss any doubts or concerns that might be troubling them. Utmost confidentiality is maintained so that the students can work through their issues and develop the self-awareness to overcome them.
Free one-on-one counseling services are provided to the students by the Centre. Mental health-related awareness/orientation sessions have been conducted for three months in each department of the university to sensitize the teaching and non-teaching staff and to increase the awareness in students and thus optimize the Centre’s benefits for them. The team of Stress Management Centre includes a Consultant Psychiatrist (Medical officer), a Clinical Psychologist and a Psychological Counselor. The center has plans to organize such programmes every year, especially amongst the first-year students, in a bid to make the Centre a part and parcel of their campus life.
Objectives :
1) To assist the students in identifying issues that hinder their overall growth, as a person and then as a student.
2) To identify and encourage the students’ interests and aptitudes.
3) To help the students deal with their personal, educational and psychological concerns.
4) To help students cultivate a constructive mindset in order to meet the various challenges of their life.
5) To recognize and optimize their strengths and learn the better management of their weaknesses.
Some of the issues of the students that the Stress Management Centre addresses:
a) Lack of confidence and self-doubt
b) Making choices through effective decision making
c) Handling peer pressure
d) Relationship issues
e) Addiction
f) Career choice
g) Also, other mental health issues which can cause symptoms like depression, anxiety, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), etc.
Personnel Involved :