Pt. Prithi Nath (PG) College, Kanpur

Counselling Cell

Aims and Objectives:

Counselling is a process that aims to facilitate physical and mental well-being of the students. The Guidance and Counselling Cell of the College was started with an aim to providing guidance to the students by helping them potential within themselves to combat the distress, remove barriers that hinder their growth and equip them with greater knowledge, attitude and skills to become competent and socially responsible individuals. The Cell provides individual as well as group counselling to students as when needed. To create awareness within the students, various programs are organized by the cell which is fruitful to enhance their physical and mental well-being.

The aim of the Counselling Cell is to promote positive behavioural changes by making them resilient to their problems and cope effectively with the situations they confront.

Objectives:

• To help the students in solving their personal, educational, social and psychological problems.
• To create awareness about issues and challenges related to mental health of students.
• To help resolve emotional and behavioural issues of the students.
• To enhance coping skills with challenging circumstances.
• Identifying underlying reasons for behavioural, academic and emotional problems.
• To inculcate better interpersonal relations with the people around.
• Conducting counselling sessions, Guest lectures on different career avenues and Seminars for their better mental, physical and academic development.
• On the 26th of January 2002, our college started a guidance and counselling cell under the guidance of the Principal Dr Ashok   Saxena and patronage of Mrs. Parminder Swarup. It was the first of its type in the city. Counsellors gave personalized sessions to the students who had some kind of stress, anxiety or depression.
• The counselling cell provided a platform to the students to speak up their pent-up emotions, which relieved them.
• Moving in the direction of emotional healing the college offered free counselling to the city during the recent Pandemic, by publishing the phone numbers of the professors willing to give personalized counselling. The numbers were published in the leading newspapers and many anxiety stricken people contacted our professors.
• It gives immense relief to mention that our college has withstood the pressures of the time without any loss. The emotional health of our faculty, non-teaching staff and students has been good.