As a student, you enter a stage of life in which you go through many changes. This is accompanied by challenges, questions, and expectations, both from yourself and from your surroundings. Every change requires some degree of adaptation and can, depending on the impact, be confronting and throw you off balance. Often, students find their own way and adapt to the new situation easily. But sometimes the transition to the new situation can cause mental problems such as anxiety and tension, doubts or feelings of insecurity, worrying, depression or apathy. This can greatly hinder your daily life, as well as your studies.
This guidepost provides information on tools that you can use to make your studies go as smoothly as possible and where to find support if you find yourself unable to cope.
- External support
For more intense guidance, the student psychologist can help you find an appropriate referral. To use the external guidance offered by Mental Health Care (GGZ), you need a referral from your general practitioner (GP). The general practice treats mild psychological complaints itself, possibly in collaboration with a Practice Assistant General Practitioner (POH-GGZ). If a POH-GGZ helps, the general practitioner remains responsible for the treatment.
The general practitioner can refer for help with psychological problems to a care provider within the basic-Mental Health Care (BGGZ) or to the specialized Mental Health Care (SGGZ), depending on the degree of problems. Payment for psychological help is included in the basic package of the health insurer. However, this only applies to students who have a Dutch healthcare insurance. If you do not have a Dutch healthcare insurance, please check the Health Care website and AON+ insurance terms.
When referring to external psychological help, you must take into account waiting times.- On campus
- Campus UT General Practice
In case of emergency outside office hours: General Practitioner's Out-of-hours Service Enschede-Oldenzaal
(not on campus). - Boncura
- Basic and Specialized Mental health care, individual and in groups. Treatments mainly for anxiety and mood problems. - Psychosomatic physiotherapy
- Topvorm Twente
- Campus UT General Practice
- Off campus
- General Practitioners in the Twente region
Registering with a general practitioner: consult the list of GP practices in the Twente region
to see which practices you can visit. - Anonymous professional aid
- Alles oké supportlijn
for young people aged 18 to 24. - Korrelatie
- National organisation, offers anonymous professional, psychological and psychosocial help. By phone and online. - Sensoor
- Anonymous available 24/7 for people who need a confidential conversation. - 113
- Suicide prevention platform. Assistance and information via internet and telephone. Available 24/7, 0800-0113.
- Alles oké supportlijn
- Additional information
- Accessible higher education
Information for higher education students with a support question. - ik-student
Student experience stories and how they deal with problems and seek help. - Accessible Academia
A platform for disabled scientists, staff and students.
- Accessible higher education
Invisible differences
Diversity is always there, but not always visible. Sometimes, a slightly different way of thinking, processing information or behavior can lead to misunderstandings. When diversity within a group is high, it requires effort from everyone to understand each other and listen to each other without prejudice. The video "the invisibles and their diversity" provides a clear explanation from an experiential expert perspective.
