Centre for Social and Psychological Support

The Centre for Social and Psychological Support is a special-purpose facility of the Technical University of Košice with a university-wide scope of activity.

It provides:

• psychological, social and career counselling,
• counselling in the field of adverse psycho-social situation due to the threat of social exclusion (e.g. due to the origin from a disadvantaged background, discrimination based on gender, gender, nationality, age and other diversity),
• first-contact counselling on sexual harassment and gender-based violence,
• information and counselling activities,
• crisis intervention,
• educational activities in the field of social skills and personal development,
• primary prevention of socio-pathological phenomena (e.g. substance and non-substance addictions, sexual harassment, etc.),
• the development of peer-to-peer support groups at the University.

The Centre collaborates with those providing services in the Accessibility Centre, members of the tutoring system, the Student Information Centre and other relevant parts of the University for the work of the Centre. It also cooperates with non-university domestic and international partners in accordance with its mission and activities, in particular with institutions in the field of counselling and support services.

• Terms and Conditions of Provision of Professional Services of the Centre of Social and Psychological Support of TUKE

Adresa
Vysokoškolská 39/4, 042 00 Sever
2nd Floor
Room No. 258

• support for adaptation to university studies and environment
• support for coping with the demands of studying, e.g. low academic performance, perceived burden in the exam period, failure to study, repeating a year, loss of motivation, loss of interest in studying, presentation stage fright
• supporting the reconciliation of the demands of study, personal and professional life
• advice on effective ways of learning

• counselling in solving personal, family and work problems, solving relationship problems
• counselling when experiencing discrimination on the basis of gender, gender, race, colour, nationality, age and other diversity
• first-contact counselling when experiencing sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based violence
• first contact counselling for substance and non-substance dependence,
• support for developmental tasks (e.g. transition to adulthood)