{"id":66133,"date":"2022-05-24T09:17:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=66133"},"modified":"2022-05-24T09:17:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T15:17:58","slug":"saits-student-development-and-counselling-centre-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2022\/05\/24\/saits-student-development-and-counselling-centre-services\/","title":{"rendered":"SAIT\u2019s student development and counselling centre services"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66134\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66134\" src=\"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220414-S5-Stdent-Development-and-Counselling-Centre-services-AK-0002-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220414-S5-Stdent-Development-and-Counselling-Centre-services-AK-0002-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220414-S5-Stdent-Development-and-Counselling-Centre-services-AK-0002-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220414-S5-Stdent-Development-and-Counselling-Centre-services-AK-0002-1024x776.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220414-S5-Stdent-Development-and-Counselling-Centre-services-AK-0002-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220414-S5-Stdent-Development-and-Counselling-Centre-services-AK-0002-1536x1165.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220414-S5-Stdent-Development-and-Counselling-Centre-services-AK-0002-2048x1553.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220414-S5-Stdent-Development-and-Counselling-Centre-services-AK-0002-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Student development and counselling:<\/strong> Anmolpreet Kaur, a student in the Hospitality and Tourism Management program at SAIT stands near the board that describes student development and counselling services, in the Stan Grad building at the SAIT campus in Calgary on Thursday, April 14, 2022. (Photo by Amandeep Kaur\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">S<\/span>AIT (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) provides the services for counselling and the development of students. A counsellor and a student provide information about the services of counselling and development centres.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">J<\/span>ulie Egers an educational counsellor at SAIT and registered psychologist in Alberta shared the information about services at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sait.ca\/student-life\/health-wellness-and-safety\/student-development-and-counselling\">student development and counselling centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Egers said when she worked starting with the counselling centre, she realized that personally likes to do work in this department because it helps people develop skills and personal awareness, which inspired her most. She loves to provide counselling to people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you work in a counselling department in a post-secondary like say you are helping people really tangibly reached their goals,\u201d said Egers.<\/p>\n<p>Egers said at SAIT there are many resources and supports for students\u2019 physical and mental development. She said it is rewarding to cooperate with other resources on campus to get rid of problems that are coming in the progressive way of students.<\/p>\n<p>Egers said SAIT student development and counselling centre provides the counselling for any personal concerns, personal issues communication problems etcetera that is affecting student in different ways. SAIT\u2019s student counselling and development centre provide its\u2019 services about career concerns as well.<\/p>\n<p>Egers said this department provides services in various ways for example by phone, in-person meetings or by zoom meetings, which is preferable for a student.<\/p>\n<p>Egers said to make students comfortable to talk about their concerns or problems is a big part of a development and counselling centre. She said we can see a change in a student after talking with a counsellor like one can feel a reduction of stress in a person, who is in front of us.<\/p>\n<p>Anmolpreet Kaur, a student of Hospitality and Tourism Management shared her views about the services of the student development and counselling centre of SAIT. She said she is an international student and she needed counselling for her development and to reduce the stress.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you work in a counselling department in a post-secondary like say you are helping people really tangibly reached their goals. &#8211; Julie Egers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kaur said, as she is an international student and starting everything was new for her here in Canada and she did not know how to maintain studies and work here and she was in stress, at that time she felt the need for a counsellor to reduce her stress. And she went to contact the SAIT\u2019s student development and counselling centre, and she felt relaxed after talking with the counsellor.<\/p>\n<p>Kaur said after counselling, she felt a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/education-career\/ce\/motivation-autonomy.pdf\">motivational power<\/a> in her soul and felt stress-free. She said it is helpful for everyone and she is happy with the services of SAIT\u2019s student development and counselling centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>SAIT&#8217;s student development and counselling centre provide services to maintain the mental and physical health of students. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2022\/05\/24\/saits-student-development-and-counselling-centre-services\/\" title=\"SAIT\u2019s student development and counselling centre services\">[ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":66135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"S5 SAIT's Student development and counselling centre services AK","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109,1106,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"category-physical-health-and-wellness","9":"category-campus-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66154,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66133\/revisions\/66154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}