Counseling in Action. The Experience of University of Salerno

The University Counseling Center supports the students about any type of discomfort related to university learning experiences. The hypothesis is that, through both the counseling experience and the relationship with counselor, the students will be able to: 1. Detect the sense of discomfort within development trajectory; 2. Amplify the awareness of the discomfort symptoms; 3. Promote improvements in affective, cognitive and relational dysfunctional areas. Fifty students asked to Counseling Center for having a psychological support, about different reasons. As counselors, we submitted them a test for the socio-demographics’ information and the SCL- 90R test (Sympton Checklist-90-R) before and after the Counseling activities. The results suggest that, following the counseling action, the symptoms decreased and the students activated their individual and relational resources to mediate the person and his problems relationship and to reactivate the capability of troubleshooting (Telfener, Casadio, 2003).