Mission Statement

Student Counselling aims to help individual students of the University develop a greater sense of resource and self-determination. It offers support and help to students with concerns or problems during their studies at Hull. This objective contributes to the University's aim to create an environment within which students have the opportunity to realise their full potential. Student Counselling works to enhance the reputation of the University through being a recognised centre of professional excellence within the counselling field.

It aims to achieve this by:

• Providing professional individual counselling, undertaken by trained counsellors in a confidential setting.
  
• Ensuring that all therapeutic work undertaken by the Service is within clearly defined boundaries of time, place and confidentiality. Staff within the Service work to the 'Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy' of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
• Working to a target of offering an initial full counselling session within five working days to every student requesting an appointment.
• Operating a 'Drop In' service each semester weekday during which a duty counsellor is available for brief consultations.
  
• Providing information and consultation on issues of student or staff support to all members of the University, and to the University management.
  
• Providing a quality placement for trainee counsellors.
• Being involved in research and publications concerned with improving practice in counselling.
  
• Reaching out to individuals and groups within the University Community offering training and staff development on Counselling issues.
  

Updated December 2011