Psychological counseling in the Italian academic context: Expected needs, activities, and target population in a large sample of students.

ABSTRACT: University psychological counseling (UPC) is receiving growing attention as a means to promote mental health and academic success among young adults and prevent irregular attendance and dropout. However, thus far, little effort has been directed towards the implementation of services attuned to students' expectations and needs. This work intends to contribute to the existing literature on this topic, by exploring the perceptions of UPC among a population of 39,277 students attending one of the largest universities in the South of Italy. Almost half of the total population correctly identified the UPC target population as university students, and about one third correctly expected personal distress to be the main need that UPC should target. However, a large percentage did not have a clear

SUBMITTER: Musso P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9000095 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature