Thursday, 10 October 2013

Counseling in Universities.

Summary of article
“Number of university students seeking counseling rises 33%”


The main point is the increased to 33% average of the students require counseling in college, this are the data that gives us “Help Me Investigate”. The universities that increased more the percentage are the University of Glasgow and Lancaster University; from Glasgow say they are working to ensure that all students have attention. They expect that this might mean that students are aware of the resources they have at the University.

Also, The University of York, The University of West Scotland, and Bath Spa University are seeing too a increment of the petitions of students for counseling doubles above. The York say the program 'Open Door Team'.

For the study said 114 universities, was an identified difference in funding and waiting list according the university. Some results deliveries are:

-          -An NUS report on mental illness this month revealed that 20% of students currently in university consider themselves to have a mental health problem.
-          -The research said that 20% of students considered themselves to have a mental health problem, and 13% had suicidal thoughts.


This could be an important topic for the sociology of education, because it can address the institutional relationships between students and the university.

1 comment:

  1. Very interesting topic. There are a lot of students in different universities that have the same problems too in Chile.

    Bye!

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