Adapting to Changes

The Adaptation to Change Program is responsible for carrying out interventions open to the entire student community, focused on prevention and promotion of well-being. It seeks to make visible relevant issues of this vital stage and university trajectory, as well as the various contextual factors that influence emotional stability. In addition, one of the main focuses of the Program is the development of healthy lifestyle habits and the strengthening of protective factors for mental health.

Program Objectives

Promote adaptation to change and well-being through activities aimed at the psychoeducation of students in a university context.

Specific Objectives

• To make visible the importance of well-being and mental health, problematizing current lifestyles that are risk factors for the development of mental health disorders.
• Promote students’ autonomy in the development of healthy habits that improve their well-being and mental health.
• Facilitate processes of adaptation to the different changes that occur in each of the stages of the university career.

Services

To carry out the objectives of the Adaptation to Change program, the professionals of the team offer the following services and initiatives to UC students.

Cycle of psychoeducational talks

“Crisis and Change: From Understanding to Acceptance and Transformation”: Generate a space for dialogue and reflection, where you will learn about what changes and crises imply, as well as ways to manage them.
“Emotions as a source of well-being”: Generate a space for dialogue and reflection, where you will learn about emotions, what they are and how they are expressed in order to learn to identify them. As well as understanding the relevance of being in contact with them and regulating them in the most appropriate way possible.
“Mental health and well-being”: Generate a psychoeducational and conversational space that seeks to provide basic information about mental health and well-being. As well as providing strategies that favor self-care.

Workshops

Workshops are offered in the “University Life and Well-being” series. The objective is to intervene in three groups of students, according to the stage of university life in which they are, divided into the following categories:

1. UC Rookie: Expectations and Emotional Challenges. Aimed at those students who are entering the university for the first time.
2. Workshop: “How to overcome the challenges of being in the middle of my university life?: the objective is to be able to generate a space for meeting and reflection around the experience of being in the middle of my university career, creating a common narrative in relation to the experiences of students.
3. Emotional challenges at the end of my university stage: Aimed at students who are about to start their professional practice. We will work on the expectations and emotions associated with leaving university and entering the world of work.

Meeting groups for foreign students

Meeting space about the experience of being a foreign student at the UC.

For Undergraduate Students
For Graduate Students