Gwangju University Operates Customized Mental Health Screening Program for New Students

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Gwan-woo] Gwangju University announced on the 12th that it will operate a ‘Customized Mental Health Checkup Program’ to help freshmen adapt to school life.

The ‘Customized Mental Health Checkup Program’ is organized by the University Life and Career Counseling Center, which conducts personality tests for all freshmen. Based on the results, it aims to enhance understanding of oneself and others and assist in adapting to school life.

The program proceeds in four stages from A to D. In stage A, the online personality test ‘e-mind’ creates a profile of seven traits to identify individual personality characteristics.

Stage B (online personality interpretation lecture ‘Mind see’) helps participants understand their temperament and personality by having them watch interpretation videos tailored to their personality test results.

In stage C, experts meet directly with freshmen from various departments to hold a personality understanding workshop called ‘Tikitaka’ to share school life experiences and find areas for improvement to enhance understanding of oneself and others.

The final stage, stage 4, provides prompt support to high-risk students identified in stage 3 and conducts one-on-one customized counseling called ‘Smile’.

Kim Dong-won, head of the University Life and Career Counseling Center at Gwangju University, said, “Due to the prolonged period of non-face-to-face classes caused by COVID-19, freshmen who could not attend school must have felt frustrated. However, I hope that through this program, their mental health will improve, helping them adapt well to school and social life.”

Meanwhile, the University Life and Career Center at Gwangju University continuously conducts mentoring programs for career counseling to support freshmen’s psychological stability and adaptation to school life.

Last year, the center provided a ‘COVID-19 Related Freshmen Psychological Quarantine Service’ for new and transfer students experiencing depression and stress caused by COVID-19, counseling an average of about 160 people per day.

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