Honam University Freshmen Psychological Counseling 'Honam Maeum Call' Receives Positive Reviews

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] The Student Counseling Center at Honam University (Director Kim Mirye) announced on the 26th that it operated the ‘Honam Mind Call,’ a 1-on-1 telephone counseling program to check the psychological state of 1,689 freshmen from the 23rd of last month to the 10th of this month.

As a result of cross-analyzing the satisfaction of 1,389 respondents to the telephone counseling, the scores out of 10 were as follows: 1,128 (81.2%) gave a perfect 10, 122 (8.8%) gave 9, 100 (7.2%) gave 8, 27 (1.9%) gave 7, 6 (0.4%) did not respond, and 3 (0.2%) each gave 6 and 5.

The counseling was conducted by two professional counselors from the Student Counseling Center and 15 guest counselors following an 8-step counseling manual. If it was determined during the first counseling session that support for depression and mental health was needed, a second video counseling session was conducted.

As a result of the counseling, most students felt that ▲ the school’s sincerity in caring for students’ psychological stability was evident through calling each student individually to ask about psychological distress and difficulties in daily life, and ▲ they appreciated being listened to with a comforting voice and receiving career counseling.

Additionally, some respondents expressed difficulties with online classes overall, such as burdens from somewhat difficult-to-understand lecture content and assignments, especially since they had never experienced in-person classroom lectures or met professors and friends.

Kim Mirye, Director of the Honam University Student Counseling Center, said, “We are relieved that the satisfaction with the telephone counseling conducted to alleviate the psychological distress and stress of freshmen who cannot come to school due to COVID-19 is high,” and added, “The ‘Honam Mind Call II’ telephone counseling for second, third, and fourth-year students is scheduled to be conducted from the 27th of this month to the 22nd of next month.”

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