NCARE – NSBM Counselling and Relaxation Entity
“We are here for you. Whatever!" Whenever!”
NCARE – NSBM Counselling and Relaxation Entity is a service unit established by NSBM Green University to provide professional services to students and consultation/education to the NSBM community to address students’ personal, academic, and social issues.
To enhance the success of students and our campus, NCARE Counseling Services supplies its services in an atmosphere that welcomes diversity in culture, sexual orientation, religion, and other factors of difference.
Our Vision
Visibility – Embedding us as a significant resource while also balancing the resulting increase in office demands, outreach needs, and training with staff availability.
Integration – Working as a Team within our campus and with parents to meet the needs of our students and campus community.
Programming –Maintaining core services while adapting to demands for expanding horizons, remaining workable, and reaching as many students as possible.
OUR SERVICES & OUR TIME
We are covering four areas that affect students: Therapeutic services, Outreach, Training, and support to the Administration. We reach a considerable number of students and affect the campus by spending 100% of our time in psychological counselling, outreach, and alcohol/drug education activities.
Counseling Services
N-CARE provides individual counseling services to all NSBM students, faculties, and staff regarding a variety of issues including but not limited to anxiety, depression, stress, relationship conflicts, loss and grief, sexuality, marital problems, drug and alcohol, smoking, and life decisions.
Student Mentoring
N-CARE provides individual mentoring for students who present academic concerns. Professional Counselors provide services to help students to deal with issues including but not limited to test anxiety, academic stress, learning difficulties, learning strategies, developing study skills, time management, and teamwork skills.
Research Guidance – students (Postgraduate and Undergraduate)
The N-CARE staff keeps up with up-to-date research to inform their services by evidence. The N-CARE encourages counselors to conduct research while adhering to ethical codes. This Centre also supports students and faculty conducting research when a request is received for support. In addition, This Centre requires faculty members to produce research for promotion and allowances and offers rewards for published research. Counselors conducting research must familiarize themselves with a related section of the N-CARE’s Code of Ethics and must pay close attention to the participation of students and clients in research.
Training
Training on Motivation, skills development, personality development, professional development, attitude development, counseling skills development, leadership and teamwork, and Human Resource Development for undergraduates, non-academic staff, academic staff, postgraduate students, schoolteachers, school students, and various communities are being done by N-CARE.
Types of issues for taking counselling services
Most Frequent presenting concerns:
- Lack of Concentration
- Adaptation issues
- Academic difficulties
- Work stress
- Simple Depression
- Anxiety-related issues
- Concerns about relationships
- Issues arising from Romantic affairs
- Feeling overwhelmed
- Lack of self-confidence
- Exam offence
- Peer group pressure
- Family problems
- Suicidal ideation
Other issues to take counselling:
- Unsatisfied with the current climate
- Weight meddles with their everyday life.
- Food controls on themselves
- Concerned about their well-being.
- Addiction concerns
- Feel bashful or shy.
- Anger or contending
- Feel strange on this ground.
- Eating propensities
- Dealing with sorrow or loss of Nutrition or exercise propensities
- Difficulty controlling irate contemplations/activities.
- Difficulty confiding in others.
- Lost interest in exercises
- Unresolved strife with others
- Lost expectation that life will improve.
- Trouble remembering
- No close companions (forlorn)
- Time the board issues
- Mood swings
- Excessive sorrow or crying
- Feeling misconstrued or abused
- Use of liquor/drugs
- Memories of past sexual maltreatment/attack Intentions of self-destruction
- Pressured by others to pick a lifelong way
- Others stress over the utilization of liquor/drugs/smoking
- Self-hurt (cutting, consuming, wounding)
- Facing legitimate issues
Academic and human resource development support given by the N-CARE
- Certificate in Counseling Psychology- 8 month course for academic staff
- Certificate in Counseling Psychology- 6 month course for students
- Higher Certificate in Counseling Psychology- 12 months course for academic staff and non-academic executives
- One-day/ two-day /…workshop on attitude and skills development (for all staff, students, club representatives, sports teams and players, schoolteachers, and employees in the private sector. etc.)
- Interpersonal skills development program for hostel students
How can the NSBM community be benefited?
When a student requires a service that the N-CARE Centre does not offer, the student is sent to the appropriate service. As the primary referral source for psychiatric services in-patient care, the N-CARE Centre services are being referred by the dean, heads, lecturers, Managers and Executives, student leaders on a Volunteering basis, parents and Guardians, and mentees. To guarantee that students receive the specific care they may require, N-CARE is constantly looking for new referral sources and working to strengthen partnerships and collaboration with community mental health providers.
How can the NSBM community be benefited?
When a student requires a service that the N-CARE Centre does not offer, the student is sent to the appropriate service. As the primary referral source for psychiatric services in-patient care, the N-CARE Centre services are being referred by the dean, heads, lecturers, Managers and Executives, student leaders on a Volunteering basis, parents and Guardians, and mentees. To guarantee that students receive the specific care they may require, N-CARE is constantly looking for new referral sources and working to strengthen partnerships and collaboration with community mental health providers.
If you are having a hard time and need someone to talk to, please know that "NCARE" is there for you! "It’s okay not to be okay.”
Make an appointment for consultations via below contact details.
General Line: 011 544 5018 (Ext: 1018)
Call /WhatsApp: 070 544 5018
General E-mail: ncare@nsbm.ac.lk