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YOU @ UKZN
Presented by Student Support Services
INSPIRING GREATNESS
About This Presentation
• Introducing Student Support: Counselling
• Essential Student Support Services
• Challenges you might encounter
• Coping Strategies: Focus on critical skills
INSPIRING GREATNESS
SERVICES – PMB
Student Support – College Admin Building
Risk Management Services (RMS) - Milner Road
Campus Clinic - Milner Road
Student Housing
Student Funding – College Admin Building
Academic Leaders - School Specific
Academic Development Officers – School Specific
Disability Unit - Milner Road
Student Representative Council (SRC) - SU
Library - Main Campus
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STUDENT SUPPORT
• HPCSA registered psychologists, Life Skills Officers
and Interns
• Based on Westville (ORT Building), Howard
(Desmond Clarence) and PMB (College Admin
Building)
• Services offered:
– Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy
– Academic risk assessments
– Psychological Assessments
– Crisis Management
– Career Assessments
– Group Work/Therapy (incl. support groups)
– Life-skills Workshops Study- skills development
– Learning enhancement checklist (LEC)
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“Incorporating Mental Health Awareness in the Classroom”
• We shall offer a number of workshops and group programmes.
• These are aimed at promoting mental health.
• Also academic; career; and personal counselling to students.
• Training in areas such as:
– Depression
– Anxiety
– Gender-Based Violence
– And many more
• Expect to see us in lectures!
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CAES STUDENT COUNSELLORS
PMB
Shelley Barnsley
Barnsley@ukzn.ac.za
WESTVILLE
033 260 5697
Kike Adewusi
Rossella Meusel
Adewusi@ukzn.ac.za
Meuselr@ukzn.ac.za
031 260 2089
033 260 5696
Nqobile Kweyama
Sanele Zuma
KweyamaN2@ukzn.ac.za
zumas2@ukzn.ac.za
031 260 7158
033 260 5709
Janette George
Mzamo Zondi
dbnedu@gmail.com
ZondiW1@ukzn.ac.za
031 260 2635
033 260 6550
Sarah Miller
MillerS@ukzn.ac.za
033 260 5975
HOWARD COLLEGE
Ronelle Msomi
momir1@ukzn.ac.za
031 260 1594
Prashna Singh
singhp3@ukzn.ac.za
031 260 1455
Lala Domleo
laladomleo@yahoo.com
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YOUR PMB COUNSELLORS
Shelley Barnsley Rossella Meusel
(Manager: Student Support) Educational Psychologist
Senior Counselling Psychologist Admin Building, Room 3 – Ground Floor
Admin Building, Room 1 – Ground Floor
Mzamo Zondi Sarah Miller Sanele Zuma
Life Skills Officer Intern Psychologist Life Skills Officer
Admin Building, Room 103 – First Floor Admin Building, Room 108 – 1st Floor Admin Building, Room 5 – Ground Floor
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CAES HELP DESK ADMINISTRATORS
PMB
Mrs. Heather Singh
College Admin Building foyer
singhh@ukzn.ac.za
033 260 5695
WESTVILLE
AES Support
aessupport@ukzn.ac.za
HOWARD
AES Support
aessupport@ukzn.ac.za
Generic Email: aesupport@ukzn.ac.za
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Making an Appointment
• Use Google Chrome
• Go to: http://ukzn.b4appointments.co.za/booking
• Once off registration
• Make bookings from anywhere (or cancel, change)
• You will receive a confirmation of your booking once
approved
• You will receive a reminder of your appointment on the day
via email
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Making an Appointment
INSPIRING GREATNESSVisit Our Website: ‘https//:aessupport.ukzn.ac.za’
INSPIRING GREATNESS‘CAES Student Support Services’
INSPIRING GREATNESSCommon Challenges Faced by 1st Year Students
• Identity issues
• Students from outside KwaZulu-Natal
• Homesick and alone
• Freedom overload
• Managing finances
• Choice of degree
• Managing academic demands
• Poor judgement (overconfidence)
INSPIRING GREATNESSFrom High School To The University
• It is not the same!
• Why?
– Independent learning
– New teaching Styles
– Time management - too much time or too little?
– Culture shock
– Balancing your personal/ social life with
academic life
– Language – often particular to module
– Need for extra support
INSPIRING GREATNESSIn trying to get you to your goal of being a
successful graduate, here are some tips to help
you on your journey !
INSPIRING GREATNESSTips To Help You Start Well
Attend Intro/Freshers' Week Events.
Ask for CREDIBLE help when you hit bumps in the road.
- From the school; support staff; peers; friends
Drag Yourself to Class, Always!
Manage your time wisely!
Maintain discipline! Keep the consistency
Stay positive
Stay true to yourself
INSPIRING GREATNESSIndependent Learning
• Each module has a course outline
– Sections to be covered at certain times
– Lectures responsible for sections
– Due dates tests, etc.
– Prescribed books
• Plan and keep on track!
• Make use of consultation times
• Source available academic support
• Still struggling?
– Seek counselling
INSPIRING GREATNESSTIME MANAGEMENT
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your
time and master your life.
Alan Lakein
INSPIRING GREATNESSSTUDY TIME
You are expected to do 3
hours of work every day
outside of class time, 7 days
a week.
3 x 7 = 21 hours a week
INSPIRING GREATNESSWeekly Planner: Schedule time on a weekly block basis.
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
7:45 - 8:30
8:40 – 9:25
9:35 – 10:20
10:30 – 11:15
11:25 – 12: 10
12:20 – 13:05
13:15 - 14:00
14:10 – 14:55
15:05 – 15:50
16:00 – 16:55
17:00
18:00
19:00
20:00
21:00
22:00
23:00
24:00
INSPIRING GREATNESSThreats to Effective Time Management
PROCRASTINATION
POOR PLANNING
PERFECTIONISM
• Trying to • Putting • Problems
get things off with
perfect starting planning
until the ahead
• This last and
causes minute balancing
tasks to tasks
stack up
INSPIRING GREATNESSMANAGING YOUR TIME
Motivation Schedule time
Goal Time planners
Setting Prioritization
Discipline To do list
Reward Long term,
Yourself weekly, daily
Deal with
procrastination
Organize and perfectionism,
manage self & poor planning,
environment & distractions
INSPIRING GREATNESSSTUDY SKILLS INSPIRING GREATNESS
At university the emphasis is on self-
responsibility and self-
management.
You will need to create your own
study framework, organise your
time and prioritise different tasks.
INSPIRING GREATNESSSTUDY SKILLS
Note Taking
Time Eating
Management Memory Skills
Life Management
Financial
Management SQR3
STUDY Digesting
SKILLS Memory Skills
Stress
Management
Action Essay Writing
Motivation Exam Writing
INSPIRING GREATNESSGeneral Study Skills
You can remember this as the SQ3R
method :
Survey
Questions
Read
Recite
Review
INSPIRING GREATNESS6. LIVE A
BALANCED
LIFE:
• Schedule > social
needs 1. DON’T FALL
5. DON’T GIVE UP: • Balance work/play BEHIND:
• Persistence • Plan ahead (reward) • Notes
• Analyse failures • 1st priority • Lost time
• Try! (even if it looks • Catch up
hopeless) - method
- don’t
postpone
SIX
GOLDEN
RULES
2. UNDERSTAND AS YOU
4. WORK GO ALONG:
CONSISTENTLY: • Hazy? – Explain!
• Not converse (1) • Cumulative (delay fatal)
• Routine ??? • Help
3. DO IT NOW:
• Volume (keep up) - 1st - fellow student
• Procrastination (time!)
• Lecture notes - 2nd - previous student
• Avoid excuses - 3rd - lecturer
• Do immediately or
A.S.A.P.
INSPIRING GREATNESSBUDGETING
• Why is a good budget important?
You will know what you can afford to buy
You can plan carefully so that your money will last until
your next income.
You can work out how much money you can save
• Difference between things you NEED and things you WANT
INSPIRING GREATNESSFinancial Planning
Item March April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov
Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual
Income
Meal allowance
Pocket money
Bursary
Salary
Other
Subtotal
Expenses
Accommodation
Food
Toiletries
Transport
Telephone
Medical/Medicine
Clothes
Entertainment
Emergencies
Savings
Other
Subtotal
Total
over/under
INSPIRING GREATNESSDRUG AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
- Drug abuse can impair judgment and functioning
- Can be life-threatening
- Fights, car crashes, unsafe sex, rape, etc.
- Affects academic performance significantly
- Absenteeism; dropouts
- Underperformance
• Cognitive Impairments
- Heart Attacks; impotence; weight gain/ obesity
- May lead to psychosis
- Health complications
INSPIRING GREATNESSPossible Outcomes of Abuse
• Brain Damage
- Depression
- Blackouts
- Impaired Judgment
• Birth Defects
- Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Unwanted pregnancy + child neglect
• Damage to Relationships
- Domestic violence
- Unnecessary conflict
• Life Threatening
- Car crashes
INSPIRING GREATNESSJust like in life, being at University is also
made up of good ideas vs. bad ideas!
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LIFE ON CAMPUS: STUDENT SOCIETIES
Students Political Organizations
- SASCO, ANCYL, SADESMO, DASO, EFFSC, etc.
Religious Organizations
- Christian, Islam, Hindu, Nazareth, etc.
Music Societies
- UKZN Chorale
Community Outreach Programmes
INSPIRING GREATNESSFOCUS ON…
• Every year at Student Support Services we adopt a theme to
focus on.
• In the past we spoke about Drug Abuse, Pregnancy, etc.
• This year we will are focusing on Gender Based Violence.
INSPIRING GREATNESSIn Closure… INSPIRING GREATNESS
"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy,
everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes
commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way.
The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you
won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction,
or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere"
(Barack Obama)
INSPIRING GREATNESSAlways Remember
• You are NOT alone, do not suffer in silence
• Student Support is here for you!
Thank You! Siyabonga!
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