CUT Annual Report 2011

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| CUT ANNUAL REPORT 2011
Health and Wellness
CUT’s Wellness Centre is responsible for
providing a number of comprehensive
services, namely: health and psychological
counselling services, academic support,
reading development, social work services,
chaplaincy services, and the selection of
prospective students. Psychological and
Social Services can be found on the second
floor of the Lapeng Student Centre, while
the Medical Centre is situated alongside the
Welgemoed residence.
The unit dealing with psychological and social
work issues, within the Wellness Centre,
offers a wide variety of services to CUT
students, with emotional and social wellbeing
at the core. A large number of students
come from difficult backgrounds with serious
family and financial problems, thus the focus
is on student support from a holistic wellness
perspective, following an approach whereby
the main areas of wellness, i.e. physical, social,
mental, emotional and spiritual wellness,
are all addressed via individual support or
group sessions. Students are given individual
support by means of psychological and
therapeutic interventions. A number of group
sessions and workshops are offered in areas
where numerous students have reported the
same problems.
Reading development and academic study courses
As students generally struggle with the volume of academic reading work, courses were presented to improve not only their reading
ability but also their comprehension and retention of information. The Reading Development programme is structured in the academic
timetable via the academic departmental heads and the Wellness Centre. Following on the decision to make Reading Development
compulsory for all first-year students, approximately 2 308 students were accommodated in the programme in 2011.