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Services of Family and Social Counseling Center

Guidance and Counseling
The Center provides free counseling services through fully equipped counseling offices that ensure complete privacy. Students can meet individually with a counselor in a confidential setting, where they can freely express their feelings and discuss their concerns and problems. The counseling services offered by the Center extend the family and social counseling services provided by the Center. The counselors adhere to established standards, procedures, and professional ethics in accordance with regulations approved by the Center and Onaizah Colleges. The counselors are members of the Center’s Family Counseling Unit. They are selected based on several professional criteria and receive ongoing, regular training. They also specialize in various counseling fields, offering students the following services:
  • Marital Counseling: Helping individuals navigate all aspects of married life, beginning with the fundamentals of partner selection and decision-making, addressing challenges that may arise in marital relationships, and developing marital interaction and communication skills. This service also provides guidance and preparation for women planning to marry, equipping them with the knowledge and skills needed to establish a stable and secure family.
  • Family Counseling: Helping families understand family life and overcome difficulties that may threaten family unity and stability. This service focuses on developing interaction and communication skills and resolving family problems to promote effective family relationships and stability among family members. These efforts contribute to social security and the development of Saudi society.
  • Educational Counseling: Helping female students adjust to university life and overcome the challenges and difficulties they may encounter. This service helps students identify their potential and abilities and develop essential life skills to improve their university experience and overall personal development. It also equips them with the skills needed to manage their lives and cope with life’s pressures, enabling them to make the most of their abilities, achieve personal adjustment, and build a successful future.
  • Psychological Counseling: Helping female students identify their psychological concerns through scientifically grounded professional assessment and address behaviors associated with psychological distress resulting from difficult or painful life experiences. This service aims to foster self-confidence, optimism, and other essential elements of behavioral therapy to help students manage and overcome their difficulties.
Awareness and Education
The Center’s role extends beyond individual services, such as counseling sessions, and specialized programs, such as training courses. It also provides public awareness and educational programs through a variety of activities, including:
  • Media campaigns: Conducting awareness campaigns within the college through printed materials, posters, audiovisual presentations, temporary exhibitions, and other communication methods.
  • Lectures and seminars: Organizing lectures and seminars on various personal and family-related topics in coordination with the College of Humanities and Administrative Studies. These activities are implemented through an activities plan and concise printed publications.
  • Hosting distinguished guests: Inviting successful individuals to share their personal and family experiences.
  • Family and psychological resource library: Establishing a library containing key books on family matters and psychology and lending them to female students through established procedures.
  • Student competitions: Organizing engaging and innovative competitions among female students on important contemporary family-related issues.
  • Magazine subscriptions: Arranging subscriptions to family-oriented magazines for female students at nominal prices.
  • Family Mobile Service: Sending text messages to female students who wish to subscribe, providing information on important issues affecting young women.
  • Email groups and social media platforms: Establishing mailing groups and communication lists across various social media platforms to select and distribute valuable programs and topics related to family education to subscribed female students.
Training
The Center offers a variety of training courses in life skills relevant to families and society, recognizing the influential role individuals play in building strong families. The Center also organizes workshops and discussion sessions in which female students participate in open and transparent discussions of important life-related topics. Training courses and workshop topics are selected based on the students’ own interests and preferences. Periodic polls and surveys are conducted through the Colleges’ website to identify the subjects students wish to explore and discuss in the coming period. The selected topics are then incorporated into the operational plan for each academic semester. Upon completing the training programs, participants receive certificates issued by Onaizah Colleges through the Family and Social Counseling Center affiliated with the Colleges.