10 October: World Mental Health Day
World Mental Health Day is an initiative that is celebrated on October 10 each year and aims to raise awareness around the world related to the centrality of mental health and to increase actions to support and in favor of its safeguard and protection.
Our university, for the entire day, makes available two mental health experts to its community for first-contact telephone support and to provide information on possible paths to be taken and where to go for further help.
- For undergraduates and PhD students: from 1 pm to 4 pm, you can contact a psychotherapist from the PoliPsi service, on +39 02 2399 2202.
- For professors and technical-administrative staff: from 10 am to 1 pm, you can contact the Work Related Stress Help Desk on +39 02 2399 3765.
- In addition to telephone support, our university promotes a number of always-on support services for its community; discover them in this infographic.
PoliPsi is the free counselling and psychological and psychotherapeutic support service for students and PhD candidates at the Politecnico di Milano. It has a team of experts (psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists) in relational dynamics and learning processes. The service offers a place to confront and receive competent support in moments of discomfort, inherent to the personal and academic sphere. Maximum confidentiality and respect for privacy of any data and materials exchanged or collected are guaranteed.
In particular, with the help offered by the service you can:
- deal with difficult situations encountered upon entering academic life (both of an academic or psychological nature);
- improve your academic performance (targeting and refining your chosen academic path, the motivations and the reasons behind it and the most effective personal and cooperative strategies for achieving your desired results);
- get to know and better understand yourself, others, your most meaningful relationships and the situations that you put yourself in in anticipation of a rich, prestigious and original personal, professional and relational future;
- better cope with your first work placement experiences, in furtherance of internships, apprenticeships and research activities.
Depending on the specific problem, the service offers varying levels of psychological and psychotherapeutic support and counselling.
For difficulties in the academic sphere (study method, organisation, motivation, anxiety, delayed studies, doubts about choice) the service offers:
- a seminar on study and learning methodologies;
- 1 to 3 individual sessions in Educational Psychological Counselling with a psychologist with expertise in guidance and teaching methodologies.
For difficulties, also of a personal nature, the service offers:
- A CER course - Self-knowledge: Emotions and Relationships composed of 10 courses in turn divided over 2 days a week with 2 online lessons, in full respect of privacy, engage on oneself reflection and enrich the cycle of individual sessions (which are offered in parallel or immediately after the course);
- a cycle of 8 individual sessions - with a psychotherapist and supervision of the scientific director of the service - which take place on a weekly basis and are offered in parallel or at the end of the experiential course.
The services can be requested at any time - after registering and in full compliance with the privacy legislation - by accessing the PoliPsi application from your personal page of the Online Services.
For teaching, technical and administrative staff, the CUG has a help desk for issues of work-related stress. A psychological counselling service is also available for staff and members of the supplementary healthcare scheme Insieme Salute; for more information, visit the PoliMI People Care section of the Online Services.
Actions
- World mental health day
- Educational psychological counselling
- Psychotherapeutic support
- PoliPsi Experiential Labs
- Special help desk for stalking victims: stalkingsos@polimi.it
- Desk dedicated to users of residences: puntoascoltoresidenza@polimi.it
- Mindfulness for students and PhD students
Contacts
For undergraduates and PhD students
polipsi@polimi.it
To request the service, please register in the PoliPsi Platform available in your Online services.
For Teaching, Technical and Administrative Staff
Listening and Work-related Distress Counselling Desk: sportellodiascolto@polimi.it
PoliMi People Care: polimi_peoplecare@insiemesalute.org / welfare@polimi.it