Supervision & Psychological expertise

In addition to personal issues, we support HSG employees in reflecting on challenging professional situations and work conflicts. As part of supervision, for example, we discuss difficult counselling situations and how to deal with potential (suicidal) crises, aggressive behavior or a suspected mental disorder in others. We are also happy to make our psychological expertise available to concerns and questions in your professional context.

Supervision

We support all HSG employees in reflecting on and positioning themselves in the context of challenging professional situations. The aim is to promote role clarity and the ability to shape working relationships positively, including setting professional boundaries.

Supervision helps to reflect on one's own professional behavior in a growth-oriented manner and to alleviate work-related stress.

 

Possible topics

Is the working atmosphere stressing you out or do you have the impression that your colleagues feel the same way?

If conflicts in the team come to a head and compromises seem difficult, we can help you as a neutral expert to recognize and overcome the causes of work conflicts. Together, we look at the underlying factors, help to understand other perspectives, support reconciliation processes and develop sustainable, joint solutions.

Anyone who takes on different roles and has to fulfil contradictory expectations will be familiar with feelings of ambivalence and inner confusion. Talk to us if these tensions are draining you of too much energy.

  • Do you notice tensions in the supervision of your PhD students when it comes to negotiating working and research time?
  • Do you find it difficult to give your colleague honest feedback on the quality of their work because you don't want to jeopardize your friendship?
  • Are you taking on a new role and challenge in your team or are you experiencing a different kind of role conflict?

In dialogue, we prepare and follow up difficult conversations in a targeted manner, guide you through possible mental illnesses and crises involving other people and show you strategies for dealing with them professionally. We are also on hand to advise you in the event of breaches of personal integrity.

  • Do you have to tell a student about a bad grade?
  • Do you have a challenging discussion with a doctoral student?
  • Do you want to better categorize an unusual interaction with a student?
  • Are you unsure how to react to the behavior of a member of staff or student?
  • Are you unsure how to deal with an aggressively insulting email from a student after the grades have been announced?
  • Have you observed toxic behavior from one of your team members?
  • Would you like support in dealing with personal crises, illness or mental disorders in the team?

Psychological expertise

Whether health or organizational psychological issues - we support the University of St.Gallen with topics that are in the institutional interest. We help to develop solutions and identify concrete options for action.

We are happy to provide our psychological expertise as part of a specialist consultancy service. This includes research activities, categorization and evaluation of psychological interventions and conceptual work on psychological topics.

Examples of this include the creation of the PhD brochure for PhD candidates and PhD supervisors or the development of the HSG Health Days, which arose from such specialist counselling.

Beispiele hierfür sind etwa das Erstellen der PhD Broschüre oder die Entwicklung der HSG Gesundheitstage, welche aus solch einer Fachberatung entstanden sind.

Contact

Psychological Counselling Services
University of St. Gallen
Rosenbergstrasse 51, 5th floor
CH-9000 St.Gallen
beratungunisg.ch
+41 71 224 26 39

By appointment
We are also there for you during break periods!

 

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