Brief Overview of the Psychological Counseling and Educational Guidance Unit:

Psychological counseling and educational guidance are fundamental pillars of the educational, academic, and pedagogical processes in all educational institutions. They play a critical role in the intellectual and cognitive advancement promoted across various disciplines within these institutions. Psychological counseling is an applied science aimed at developing the skills, capabilities, and potential of individuals in general, and the counselee (the student) in particular. It helps them understand themselves, enhance their skills and abilities, make decisions, solve problems, and achieve maximum personal growth and integration, leading to psychological and social adjustment.

Vision:

To provide high-quality psychological and educational counseling services that achieve psychological and social adjustment and promote mental well-being for the individual, thereby enhancing productivity, performance, and societal progress.

Mission:

To strive to provide appropriate mechanisms for offering psychological and social support to members of the educational community, enabling them to achieve healthy adjustment with themselves and others.

Objectives:

- Provide various psychological and social counseling consultations and assist students facing psychological and social challenges.

- Instill ethical principles, values, and ideals in students, and promote adherence to university norms and campus ethics.

- Organize counseling and awareness sessions, and foster an educational environment that encourages effort and success.

- Hold conferences, seminars, workshops, and training courses to reinforce counseling, educational, and academic principles, and spread cultural awareness and mental health literacy among students, faculty, and staff.

- Receive and address psychological consultations and inquiries from students, providing appropriate solutions.

- Contribute to designing posters, wall displays, and publishing counseling and awareness bulletins that enhance the awareness of university students.