For the Vice-deans of University Extension, MsC. Geidis Sánchez and Ing. Eliober Cleger, from school 1 and 3 respectively, the Department of University Extension is very necessary and productive. Photo-montage Adrián Antonio Garbey Fonseca.
Counseling, a Need of advise from the University Welfare Department
For the Vice-deans of University Extension, MsC. Geidis Sánchez and Ing. Eliober Cleger, from school 1 and 3 respectively, the Department of University Extension is very necessary and productive. Photo-montage Adrián Antonio Garbey Fonseca.
On February 12th , 2016, the Department of University Welfare of the University of Informatics Sciences (UCI) was inaugurated. It is located in the Cultural Center of this house of high studies, forming part of the promotion of the Ministry of Public Health For the implementation of preventive programs, prioritized in all institutions.
Among its functions are the prevention in the community of addictions such as smoking, alcoholism, HIV-AIDS, tuberculosis and drug use, as well as the care of the disabled, through different actions focused on psychoeducational needs, considering the particularities of young people, For being a stage of life where the debut of the consumption of these substances usually begins.
This department is subordinated to the Directorate of University Extension, and has highlighted, in the year of creation, its attention to t he vide- Deans of university Extension. To know the work in t, the Mella Newspaper interviewed two vice-deans: MsC. Geidis Sánchez Michel, of school 1, and Ing. Eliober Cleger Despaigne, of school 3. Both agree on the reported benefits.
For them, the Department of University Welfare, although it is very young, has served as methodological advice through conferences and preparation workshops with the great advisors and principals. This training is useful in identifying the risk factors of higher incidence of the young population, including e-addiction, which in other universities has fewer incidents.
Diagnostics are carried out every year and the latter has more quality, with the methodological guides made by the walfare department that have allowed a more accurate evaluation to identify the students that can present health, psychological or social problems, that affect their development In the educational teaching process.
Specifically, professors identify the background and through this Department and its specialists appointments are arranged so that students are taken care of by the pedagogue and the psychologist, at established times: the attention for consultation and guidance are Thursday from 2:00 to 5 : 00 pm and on Fridays, from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm The Psychopedagogical Counseling is held on Tuesdays between 2:00 and 5:00 pm
Vice-deans take the example of students who have decided to leave the UCI for some situation they present in the family or personal and thanks to the help they stay in the center, allowing the retention school does not decrease.
Psychological assessment also serves to adopt fairer disciplinary measures, and to be able to grant licenses, accept repetitions, and give better follow-up on care for these students.
According to the opinion, the Department is necessary and productive because previously had to go to an external polyclinic and to be able to attend them, here is an advantage. There is good communication, which has helped to enrich the educational strategy. Both structures are looking for tools to get the attention of as many students as possible. The process is full of accompaniment.
In the case of school 3, Eliober tells us that they have attended two critical cases, but others have been consulted, maintaining professional ethics of non-disclosure.
In addition, the Dragones portal has a section called ConVivencias, which is a means to guide and reach the university community and at the same time carry out a preventive work in dealing with different topics aimed at encouraging, alerting, sharing studies on professional development, Human interaction and give good advice in order to improve stress in work and study spaces.
The purpose of the Department is to contribute to the integral formation, to the improvement of the academic and labor processes, to establish relations with foreign entities that favor the accomplishment of projects aimed at the university well-being, and to contribute to the permanent improvement of the environmental, physical and psychic conditions through Individual and collective programs with the objective of a good academic performance.
