EMU-PDRAM is the first center among Universities in North Cyprus to offer psychological counseling and guidance services. The Center was founded on November 4th, 1997 and approved by the University Board as a unit working in direct association with the Rector's Office.
The aim of EMU-PDRAM is to help EMU students with their search for understanding and developing an awareness of their social, academic, and cognitive potentials. As a result of this understanding, students will become responsible individuals who will be able to share with and care about others no matter how culturally different these others may be, and accept them for who they are. Also they will be helped to have free choices and to carry the responsibilities of these choices. With the support of the Center, students, hopefully, will become mature individuals capable of leading a productive and successful life during their higher education and after graduation.
• Confidentiality: The information received will not be disclosed to anybody or to any institution, without the student's consent. Only in extreme circumstances whereby the student exhibits behavior that is dangerous to his/her well-being, or others, may confidentiality be broken.
• Objectivity: EMU-PDRAM offers services regardless of language, religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender and sexual orientation.
"Preventative and Increasing the Performance, Cognitive and Behavioral Development model" is adopted in EMU-PDRAM as in other Western higher education systems. The services are self-referring:
- Individual Counseling
- Group Counseling
- Orientation Program
- Seminars, Conferences, Workshops
- Inservice Training Program
- Academic Advisor Training
- Publishing Various Handbooks and Brochures in English and Turkish
- Research
Research conducted in EMU-PDRAM includes:
• Projects that aim to evaluate the efficiency of individual and/or group counseling programs.
• Surveys that aim to study certain aspects of students' psychological needs and expectations.
• Experimental research projects which examine the adolescence and youth periods in detail.
• Results used as a guide for maintaining students' satisfaction and stability on campus.
Psychological Counseling
EMU-PDRAM offers individual and/or group counseling sessions:
• Improving Communication Skills
• Effective Time Management
• Effective Study Skills
• Coping with Exam Anxiety
• Coping with Stress
• Sleep Disorders
• Traffic Psychology
• Anger Management
Guidance
• Orientation Program
• Dissemination of Information
• Cross-Cultural Workshops
• Vocational Guidance
• Guidance services on national and/or international post-graduate programs |
