Can somebody help you?
Video made by the Counselling and Study Support team at SDU
"... So there are plenty of resources on and outside your studies that you can collaborate with to promote your learning and your well-being..."
Counselling services in your study program
Find your study page via mitsdu.dk. If the menu is not already unfolded, click on "+" . Click on "contact". Here you will find the supervision options that are linked to your studies.
Counselling services at SDU
On mitsdu.dk under Counselling Services at SDU, you can find the options for counselling at SDU that are available to you.
Guidance opportunities outside SDU
There are a myriad of opportunities for you as a student to get guidance and help outside SDU. Here are some of the places that we often refer students to:
- Studievalg Danmark. Here you can get help to find out which education is right for you.
- Studenterrådgivningen. Here you can find various online materials on e.g. well-being, study techniques and more. You have the opportunity to get free psychological counselling at the Student Counselling Service.
- Municipal services. Many municipalities also have free psychological services for young people. For example, Odense municipality, Kolding municipality, Esbjerg municipality, Sønderborg municipality, Slagelse municipality.
Get out your computer or a piece of paper and answer the following questions:
- When was the last time you needed help with something in connection with your studies?
- From whom, and how did you seek help for your problem?
Listen to the researcher explain about good relationships
Interview with Dorte Toudal Viftrup. Psychologist and Associate Professor at the Research Unit for General Practice SDU
"... Good relationships are where you feel you can be yourself, and you feel you can belong and stand with your inadequacy."
"You create a good relationship by being a good relationship. Be the person who has the others on their minds by, for example, being curious about the other person's challenges, and perhaps also showing off their own inadequacy."
"Have also has a desire for the other to succeed. And take care of each other when the other shows his vulnerability..."
- Your fellow student patted you on the back and said it has been good to work with you?
- Someone in class expressed that there was something they didn't understand, that you actually hadn't understood either?
- That another person was genuinely listening curiously to what you had to say?
Have another person on your mind
Next time you are in class, try to do something for another person that gives the other person a good feeling. Say something like:
- "I recognize the doubts that you talk about"
- "It was instructive for me to hear you say it that way"
- Or simply just try to ask the other in-depth and lovingly curious question about a problem.
In other words, do something that fosters a community. You do not have control over whether you succeed, but you do have control over whether you make an attempt.
- That you have become aware of the resources you can go to locally during your studies, at the rest of SDU and outside SDU
- That the most important thing is that you reach out for help somewhere, then we will help you find the right place
- That you have given some thought to what it is like to have another person on your mind