Counseling cells in colleges are set up to facilitate a stress-free academic environment for the students, along with creating awareness about the various educational and self-grooming programs the institute conducts to foster the overall development of the students. 

Apart from this, the counseling cell of the college also plays a significant role in the life of college students.  This blog tells you more about the role of counseling cells in colleges and how they help shape a secure career for students. 

About counseling cells 

Counseling is a process that facilitates the personal and academic well-being of the students through various sessions and individual talk sessions to foster healthy growth of mind and body. 

The counseling cells encourage the students to understand themselves and work on resolving the core issues that trouble them. These issues or problems could be personal, emotional, social, academic, etc. 

This is done through various individual and group sessions to help the students with their educational goals, social and personality development, career goals, enhancing listening skills, communication skills, empathy, and interpersonal skills to have a healthy relationship and eventually a healthy lifestyle. 

The counseling cell also programs various activities through which students get the ability to cross hurdles in the academic year, ensuring good scores and overall academic success. 

The objective of counseling cells 

The counselors offer progressive and practical support through listening and timely responding to the plight of students in a confidential and non-judgmental way, ensuring the students become productive. 

Other aims of the counseling cell are as follows:

• To help students find out the solutions to their personal, educational, social, and psychological problems.
• To create awareness about the factors and difficulties responsible for students’ bad mental health.  
• To organize and ensure maximum participation of students & faculties in counseling activities. 

Roles and responsibilities of counseling cell 

The primary role and responsibility of the college counseling cell are to administer the overall upbringing of the students via facilitating positive behavior changes, improving the student’s ability to establish and maintain relationships socially, promoting their decision-making process, helping the students to realize their potential and effectively cope with the problems they face in the day to day life. 

Other Major roles & responsibilities of the counseling cell are as follows:

• Solve the personal problems of students by conducting one-on-one counseling sessions.
• Boosts self-esteem of academically weaker and physically challenged students.
• To diagnose the learning disabilities of the students and help them to overcome them.
• Help manage the examination stress or fear.
• Conduct various training programs on the importance & need of counseling for faculty and students.
•  Conducting seminars and webinars for students to create awareness about mental health & addiction issues.
• Inform parents about the behavioral and mannerism change of a particular student.

Conclusion

Education stands for an overall development of students, which counseling cells seem to facilitate. Thus, counseling cells play a vital role in colleges. The counseling cells in colleges are built with the commitment to observe and remain vigilant in dealing with the students’ problems. The counselors help the students to identify their inner strength which will enable them for their holistic development.