Keimyung University Center for Student Counseling

2006.10.31 22:38:28

A place to exchange thinking freely


When you pass by the right entrance of Bauer Hall, have you ever heard students’ laughter and chatter? Keimyung University Center for Student Counseling is located here (Bauer Hall 127-130). This center offers various psychological programs for students and counsels students. However, some students, including freshmen, still don’t know about the Center for Counseling. The Gazette knocked at the center’s door and interviewed a counselor.

The Institute for Student Guidance was established on December 11, 1969. The name was changed on September 20, 1979, to the Keimyung University Center for Student Services. The name was changed again to the Keimyung University Center for Counseling in 2002. When this center was the Keimyung University Center for Student Services, the staff worked not only in counseling students but also in students’ employment, studying abroad, and so on. The center today, however, specializes in only counseling students and psychological examination. Four counselors and one office person work in this center.

There are personal counseling, group counseling, psychological examinations, psychodrama, and art therapy in the center. Almost all the programs in the center are carried out for one semester. You can apply for these programs by using a computer except for personal counseling or visiting the center. In the case of personal counseling, you talk with a counselor once a week for one semester. There were 47 cases last semester.

Second, there are six psychological examinations. There are an examination of Sungshin self-esteem, made by Sungshin Women’s University to find our true self, an aptitude test, occupation preference, MBTI (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory), and a personality test. The center carries out these examinations each day. Monday is the examination of Sungshin self-esteem, Tuesday is the aptitude test, Wednesday is occupation preference, Thursday is MBTI, and Friday is either MMPI or the personality test. It takes 1 hour between 10 A.M. and 11 A.M. The center has these examinations again for students who can’t take these examinations because of the time. For 3 or 4 days, students can choose 1 P.M, 2 P.M., or 5 P.M.

Psychodrama is a process to express people’s repressed feeling and conflict by acting some role and situation. This program tells you about yourself. Art therapy is a professional psychological service to heal your painful inside through art works. Group counseling is divided into two programs. The two programs are “self growth” and “promotion of relationship with a girl friend or a boy friend.” The “promotion of relationship with a girl friend or a boy friend” started this semester. Students who have a girl friend or boy friend like this program.


The “self growth” program is the number one program among our students. “Self growth” started in 1979. Compared with other universities, our university’s program has a long history and the number of participants is big. The program’s purpose is to search for oneself. In other words, we learn to understand and accept ourselves. This program is divided into a primary grade and an intermediate grade. The primary grade has manuals, but the intermediate grade has no manuals. The members of the intermediate grade just talk freely. Students participate in “self growth” twice a week for a total of 20 hours. Besides the program in a semester, students can join this every vacation. The center has the same “self growth” program in vacation for students who didn’t participate in the semester. This program goes on for 3 days in vacation.

However, it goes on for 10 weeks in a semester. If you want to join this program in vacation, you should participate from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. for 3 days. What students learn through this program is the same. There are the topics of “self growth,” introduction to members, “who am I?”, faith building, self-awakening, listening, checking of feeling, clearness of value, self-exposure, feedback with the members, and strong point and weak point. Step by step, students know themselves and others through these topics. In addition, almost all the students who take part in this program say that they can make friends with the members in the group. “As I’m the leader of a group, I feel the joy of life with members I never met before by talking together, and I fulfill my job. Also, I’m happy people reflect on themselves and know the meaning of life through this program,” said the leader of a group, Park Hye-lyon.


There are many good points of the programs some students don’t know. All counseling and psychological examinations are free. Students who join any program can receive a certificate after they finish the program. In addition, not only our students but also people who live around our university or attend other universities can use our university’s center. Actually, people who don’t attend our university have taken part in the programs of the center though the rate is small. Counselors and group counseling leaders are professionals or working on a master’s degree in counseling.

Students can also take the counseling service online. Online, you can write about any problems. If you don’t want to show your name, just write your personal troubles without your name. Moreover, the center helps sexual violence cases. If you visit http://sgc.kmu.ac.kr, you can apply for various programs and take the counseling service. You can get much information about counseling here.

The center recruits about six volunteers each semester. The volunteers help with every duty except counseling for 100 hours. The counselors said that without the volunteers’ help, they would be very tired, so the roles of the volunteers are necessary in the center. After 100 hours, volunteers receive a certificate. Anyone who was completed over 3 semesters in our university can apply.

About 75-80 percent of participants continually join other programs of the center. However, counselor Baek Nam-hee said her hope is that more and more people take part in the center to better develop themselves. If you want to know about the Center for Student Counseling, visit http://sgc.kmu.ac.kr or call 580-5745.
Oh Eun-jeong ejhyde@kmu.ac.kr
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