Psychological counseling

Counseling/Workshops

• Counseling
• Offers in case of doubts during studies
• Workshops
• External offers

For students of the University of Siegen we offer psychological counseling sessions and regular workshops on various topics.

Doubts during studies

• Information session: Doubts during your studies?
  - Find your way!
• Consultation hour for students with doubts about their studies
• Next Career

Are you having doubts during your studies? At the university there are various offers to support you in this situation.

Fear of examinations

• What it feels like
• Coping

Everyone suffers from it to a greater or lesser extent. But just imagine that you are not looking forward to an examination. Somehow fear just goes with the territory: With anxiety, things sometimes go badly, but without anxiety, they don't go at all. The famous happy medium means being allowed to have fear and to be able to include and use it without letting it paralyze you. Letting fear motivate you is a difficult and long learning process. The following two pages are intended to inform you briefly about how examination anxiety expresses itself, to what extent it can limit our ability to function and perform (what it feels like), and how you can help yourself or have someone help you (coping).

Study techniques

• Study habits
• Capacity for work
• The working time
• Memory
• Absorbing the material
• Group work
• Combating examination anxiety

There are numerous tutorials on the techniques of scientific work. Our pages briefly present the most important findings in this area. It cannot replace a book on work technique, but it provides brief tips and suggestions for better studying. It may also motivate you to study working techniques more intensively. [read more]

Psychotherapy

• Practical hints
• Psychotherapeutic procedures

Tips and hints that help in the search for a psychotherapist.

What psychotherapeutic procedures are available and what to observe.

Relaxation

• Breathing and the short break
• Place of rest

Life can be understood as an endless sequence of tension and relaxation or activity and rest. The university is primarily a place of being active: listening to a lecturer's speech, studying for examinations, taking an examination, presenting a paper, going to eat in the dining hall, meeting others, browsing in the library, etc. [read more]