CENTRE FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELLING


Dr.SHAHIN AHMED
Coordinator
Professor
Department of Sports Psychology and Sociology
TNPESU, Chennai.

    The Department of Sports Psychology and Sociology, established an on-campus centre for Psychological Counseling to tackle possible issues like anxiety, depression, managing stress, building self-compassion, study, and test-taking skills, suicidal tendencies, and relationship issues that are becoming more prevalent in modern-day campus life. The centre helps the students cope with their adjustment needs from school to college while the final-year students help them face career, marriage, and real-world situations. In short, its purpose is to continually enhance students' welfare by providing services to help students achieve greater success during their stay at TNPESU.

    On a more positive note, TNPESU with its objectives being primarily to nurture and develop Sports and Physical Education uses additional services of the counselling centre for providing Sports Counselling to enhance sports performance and skills through effective psychological and other interventions. The Centre for Psychological Counsellingalso offers extension services to individuals other than students of TNPESU. The Centre for Psychological Counselling also offers an off-campus counselling service which is provided by our students (research scholars) to have more flexibility as long as they need or want. This is helpful especially, when one has longstanding or complex issues, such as severe depression, complicated family issues, trauma, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and marital issues. With regard to children with ADD and ADHD, screening tests would be done before they go for the remedial program.

    The Center for Psychological Counseling provides a comfortable environment where they will feel at home, using compassion and understanding for their needs.