Counselling Needs In Professional And Non-Professional Students

Abstract

Physical health as well as mental health, both plays a very key role in one’s wellbeing.  Due to this ongoing pandemic situation, both physical and mental health is at stake, and one need to be very careful.    It is very much evident that students from school or colleges need counselling related to various issues. But it is also observed that, students are still hesitant to contact the counsellors for help and,   there is a gap in counselling services. This paper studied the need for counselling among college students. This research study accessed 216 students from professional & non-professional students. Data was collected through online questionnaire. The study focused on the need of counselling in students for Personal, Academic, Career & Psychological issues. Result of this study showed that students from professional and non-professional courses experience equal need for academic-career & psychological needs whereas students from non-professional courses shows significantly higher need for personal counselling.