Mental Health during Your Doctoral Studies

You are a doctoral student at the University of Bonn, find yourself in a difficult situation during your doctorate and would like help and suggestions on how to overcome it? Coaching will help you to develop and implement your own individual solutions.

A first point of contact is the Psychological Counseling Service at the Central Study Advisory and Counseling Service (ZSB). In a personal meeting, you can discuss your concerns confidentially and work out solutions and ways of dealing with them. The psychologists are bound to confidentiality.

The ombudsperson's office for Early-Career researchers can help you to find solutions to challenges in your supervisory relationship. As an independent advice, mediation and arbitration service, the ombudsmperson's office is a professional point of contact for doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers and supervisors in the event of problems and conflicts.

The Family Office at the University of Bonn offers advice on topics such as balancing studies and family, childcare and caring for relatives.

The central Equal Opportunities Officer supports and advises you on issues relating to equal opportunities as well as discrimination, disadvantage and sexualized harassment.

We work in a confidential, resource- and solution-oriented manner and offer our qualified support to all employees from science, technology and administration in a personal and professional context. Your concerns are safe with us. We provide reliable and empathetic advice when it comes to clarifying personal challenges, psychological stress or conflict-laden areas of tension.

Healthy Campus Bonn offers all students various activities, seminars and advisory services on health-related topics and the development of individual health literacy.

If you are impaired in your studies due to a chronic physical and/or mental illness, you can find advice and support from the representative for students with disabilities or chronic illnesses.

Employees, students and third parties who feel discriminated against due to their ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion or ideology, disability or age can turn to the Administrative Office for Protection against Discrimination for information, advice and representation of their interests.

The Psychotherapeutic University Clinic offers you an overview of the various options for admission to therapy and reimbursement procedures.

Every student can be confronted with minor or major difficulties and problems in the course of their life and studies that are perceived as overwhelming. The number of possible topics is large. We are happy to offer you an appointment for an initial consultation and will be happy to help you accordingly.

If you or a fellow student are not feeling well, you should not be afraid to seek help. We are a team of psychologists with extensive experience in counseling, clinical psychology and psychotherapy. We are interested in your worries and concerns and support you in finding new perspectives.

Dealing with (structural) racism and discrimination at German universities is a challenge that the University of Bonn would also like to take up. In cases where students are affected by racism at the university, racism-critical counseling can help.

The Staff Council for Academic Employees is actively committed to the interests of academic employees and supports you in all matters relating to your job here at the university.

As representative body for all employees in technology and administration, the Staff Council is committed to your issues and supports you with advice and assistance in all matters relating to your workplace at the University of Bonn.

The representative of severely disabled employees and their deputies advise and represent severely disabled colleagues and their equals with the aim of inclusion in the workplace.

The Mental Health First Aid team at the University of Bonn offers confidential first aid for mental distress and crises. Mental Health First Aid is an internationally recognized program that helps to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness and to offer help for those affected on the basis of first aid measures and to provide further help in an uncomplicated manner. All MHFA helpers have completed the certified MHFA training and are able to talk to you about health problems and disorders of your mental well-being.

Sexualized discrimination and violence are not tolerated at the University of Bonn.

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As a research university, the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn is particularly committed to research and research-led teaching.

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The ombudsperson's office can help you find possible solutions to challenges in the supervisory relationship.

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