A follow-up study on students attending a university counselling service in Northern Italy

Ghilardi, Alberto; Buizza, Chiara; Costa, Andrea; Teodori, Claudio

doi:10.1080/03069885.2017.1391372

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“…Our findings indicate that international students experience multiple stresses and challenges in their lives. Academic pressures, relationship problems or making choices about the transition to the labour market or further programmes of study are comparable to what is experienced by domestic students (see Ghilardi, Buizza, Costa, & Teodori, 2017;Julal, 2013). However, as we found in our study, international students appear to be a particularly vulnerable group who experience additional pressures, making them perhaps more susceptible to depression, rumination and stress-related problems.…”

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confidence: 75%

Improving the psychosocial wellbeing of international students: the relevance of mindfulness

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Hoek

Jiang

2019

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

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In this study we analysed the potential of a mindfulness programme for improving psychosocial wellbeing among students at a Dutch university. Based on interviews and observations of sessions, the study demonstrated that students joined the programme to manage stress and anxiety, cultivate self-awareness, and regulate difficult emotions. They all reported positive outcomes, but students who participated in the sessions regularly and did the homework assignments reported better outcomes, including enhanced self-awareness, self-care, and positive attitudes towards others. Although students reported improved emotion regulation, many still believed that the programme was less strong in this area. The study affirms the potential of mindfulness programmes for improving the psychosocial wellbeing, and builds a case for the integration of mindfulness interventions in university counselling services.

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confidence: 75%

Improving the psychosocial wellbeing of international students: the relevance of mindfulness

Altinyelken

Hoek

Jiang

2019

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

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“…In Italy, psychological counselling services at universities were set up relatively recently (Ghilardi et al, 2018), but the number of counselling centres has greatly increased over the last 20 years (Ghilardi et al, 2017). In a recent review conducted in eight Italian universities, Ghilardi et al (2017) pointed out some elements that these counselling services share; for example, they are generally free for all students and they provide brief interventions while ensuring discretion and protecting the privacy of students.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In fact, very few studies in Italy have investigated the effectiveness of university counselling services (e.g. Biasi et al, 2015Biasi et al, , 2017Cerutti et al, 2020;Ghilardi et al, 2018;Strepparava et al, 2016Strepparava et al, , 2017, while none have focused on online interventions.…”

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Effect of online counselling on emotional outcomes during the COVID‐19 pandemic: An innovative group intervention for university students using the Brain Wave Modulation Technique

Celia

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Girelli

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Couns and Psychother Res

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Young people's mental health problems are a matter of concern during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Counselling services for university students by means of telemental support can help them to deal with psychological issues that they may be facing due to the pandemic. The present study investigated the effects of four once‐weekly online counselling sessions based on a mind‐body technique (the Brain Wave Modulation Technique; BWM‐T) on enhancing positive affect and on reducing negative affect and anxiety in a sample of 54 university students (96.3% females; M age = 21.31 years, SD = 2.09). An experimental design was conducted: the participants were randomly assigned to the intervention group, which received 15 min of a guided online BWM‐T session, or to the control group, which watched a 15‐min video on how to sustain their psychological well‐being. The results of a two‐factor mixed‐design analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that the participants in the intervention group reported a significant increase in positive affect and a decrease in negative affect over time compared to those in the control group. They also reported a slight decrease in state anxiety compared to the control group, although this was just short of statistical significance. The information provided by this study, regarding emotional outcomes among university students after four brief online counselling sessions, suggests that such interventions could be an effective and sustainable way to reinforce young people's mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic, as well as later in their university careers and adult lives.

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“…This was somewhat expected, mainly because self‐blame was also the coping strategy most employed by the sample. In a previous study, self‐blame was also the most highly scored of all coping strategies adopted (Ghilardi et al., 2018).…”

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Coping strategies and mental health in a sample of students accessing a university counselling service

Buizza

Cela

Costa

et al. 2022

Couns and Psychother Res

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the coping strategies used by college students and their association with socio‐demographic characteristics and distress. The sample was composed of 219 students, who had previously accessed the university counselling service over a 5‐year period. The Symptom Checklist‐90‐Revised, the General Health Questionnaire‐12 and the Brief COPE Inventory were administered. Results showed that male students tended to use more active strategies than female students and that students studying health‐related subjects presented less distress than those studying technical subjects. Moreover, the results indicated that the self‐blame coping strategy is a major predictor of mental health issues and that interaction between age and area of study aggravated the symptomatology. Further research is needed to better understand the experience of distress from the college students' perspective, and to identify what interventions are really effective in supporting students to cope with distress.

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A follow-up study on students attending a university counselling service in Northern Italy

Cited by 13 publications

References 26 publications

Improving the psychosocial wellbeing of international students: the relevance of mindfulness

Improving the psychosocial wellbeing of international students: the relevance of mindfulness

Effect of online counselling on emotional outcomes during the COVID‐19 pandemic: An innovative group intervention for university students using the Brain Wave Modulation Technique

Coping strategies and mental health in a sample of students accessing a university counselling service

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