Psychological support services

SAP

UPF Psychological Support Service (SAP) has the goal of favoring the student adaptation in the college lifestyle, facilitating personal stability and also academic efficiency. Helping the student to understand, think and change facing it’s new reality. SAP is addressed to bachelor and postgraduate UPF students that need psychological and psychopedagogical orientation.

SAP offers free and confidential service.

DIRECT ASSISTANCE: psychological orientation; individual interviews about orientation and support.

INDIRECT ASSISTANCE: valuation of redirecting to other public and private mental health institutions.

To book an appointment: https://www.upf.edu/en/web/upfinclusio/sap_estudiants

For emergency cases: What can we do if we see/notice possible suicide thoughts or ideas?

  1. Get in contact with Direcció de Campus (*) or with the Emergency Service from Generalitat of Catalonia with 112 telephone. Generalitat has an established protocol for emergencies.

  2. Afterwards get in contact with SACU (University Community Assistance Service) dialing its telephone number and adding 2111 or by mail upfinclusio@upf.edu. SACU assists students with special education needs either for disabilities or health issues.

  3. SACU will take care of giving all the information to the SAP therapists in order to verify if you are already one of the users of the service. In that case, the same therapists could intervene and try to help the student.

Contacts from the Campus:

STOP: Suicide prevenTion in sOcial Platforms

STOP is a research project that studies mental health issues on social media through Artificial Intelligence.

🦾 Engineers, Psychologists and Psychiatrist work together to change the current suicide numbers.

🔍 We find patters related to high risk of suicide, depression or eating disorders. Check all our publications!

🖤 We launch targeted campaigns on social media addressed to users that match a risk profile. These campaigns offer a 24h hotline for emotional support.

📞 We have increased by 60% the calls to the suicide prevention hotline coming from social media.

Link to page: STOP

PRBB choir and orchestra

Throughout the year there are recreational activities for residents of the Barcelona Biomedical research Park (PRBB). If you enjoy singing or playing an instrument please join the PRBB Choir and/or the PRBB Orchestra. All levels are welcome.

Link: PRBBmusic

PRBBwellbeing

Throughout the year there are recreational activities for residents of the Barcelona Biomedical research Park (PRBB). If you enjoy singing or playing an instrument please join the PRBB Choir and/or the PRBB Orchestra. All levels are welcome.

Link: PRBBwellbeing

Researcher Mental Health Observatory

ReMO focuses on wellbeing and mental health within academia, a theme of strategic importance for the European Research Area. Previous research shows that low levels of wellbeing and mental health problems have a negative impact on individual, team and organizational performance, triggering significant costs. In addition, institutional context, organizational structure and culture, as well as managerial practices have significant impact on wellbeing and health of employees. Therefore, general insights on the causes of workplace wellbeing and mental health need to be refined with contextual specifics (i.e. in academia) in order to develop tailored, effective and efficient prevention and action programs.

Link: ReMO

Voluntariat Lingüistic

A free project for language exchange between two UPF members with different maternal languages. This aims in improving international relationships and mental health.

Link: LanguageExchange