Start of a psychosocial counselling service at TU Wien

As a TUW student you can now contact an external psychologist who will advise and support you in various problem situations. It is a special concern of TU Wien to ensure good study conditions for students (and lecturers). In doing so, any psychological stress possibly caused by the studies should be as low as possible. As current studies show, mental illness is becoming more and more prevalent among young adults. Among students, one in six (17%) is now affected by a mental diagnosis (source: Barmer Arztreport , opens an external URL in a new window 2018). The number of students who are counselled by the psychological student counselling service because of signs of psychological stress has increased by more than 70% over the past twenty years (source: Psychological Student Counselling Service Vienna , opens an external URL in a new window , 2019). Since the mental health of students is important to us at TU Wien, the Vice-Rectorate Academic Affairs , opens in new window , together with the TUW Diversity Management , opens in new window / Vice-Rectorate Human Resources and Gender , organised two panel discussions on the topic of "Studying with Mental Health Problems" last autumn.