Seminar Short Report 1
Student Name : Bhola
Student ID : 0680828
Venue: 305R, Engineering Building.4, NCTU
Seminar: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy While Studying Abroad
Date/Time: Wednesday, 13 :30 ~ 15:30, Feb. 20, 2019
Speaker: Ms. Evon Chiu, Psychologist
About Speaker:
Ms. Evon Chiu is licensed psychotherapist by profession currently and confer counseling service
in Taipei, Taiwan , she worked both for Taiwanese and United States of America s student who
study abroad and facing various challenges during changing country during their study tenure. She
got her BA degree from San Jose State University in Psychology and MA from University of San
Francisco in Counseling Psychology , from United States .
Introduction:
The talk was including talk+ workshop which specially design for International students different
challenges during stay in abroad . The talk or workshop was focus both menatl, physical, cultural
and social beahabiour changing and discussied how to overcome this issue in fruitfull manner. Ms.
Ms. Evon was also International student during her study time in USA she knows better this
situatio n and she also share her experience when she was an International student in USA.
She
discussed different type of stress like relational stress which mainly for fam ily, partners, professors,
room mates, and co -work ers. She also discussed map of 6 active adjustment when someone go
abroad. She describes the 4 most common mental health issues for college students such as
generalized anxiety disorder, majo r depression, panic attack and bipolar disorder. She enlighten
10 irrigational thoughts during study or staying outside of home emotional perfectio nism,
performance perfectionism, fear of disapproval, fear of rejection, fear of being alone, fear of alone,
and fear of failure, conflict phobia emotophobia and entitlement .
At last she give us a paper we have to fill this and check our type of situation afte r filling my paper
I found type B style which was cognitive style, is good for academic student and then she suggest
some task to get rid of the issue.
Main Content:
At last the concluding point she discussed some points that how we can overcome the situation
like we have to increase our self awareness like balancing life not totaly avoid anything we have
to learn how to balance or manage problem, and second one is we have to carefully observed how
and why these probel generate and try to minimize it, we have to al ways be happy and try to tacakle
situation peacefully, she also motivate students us to become social and take part in differnt social
sctivities when we have chance to join, try to change our living style which helps you to get relief
life during stress w hat you want to do like music, exercise, walking etc., then you have to involve
yourself and atlast you have to become strong to tacale these issues.
Overall the talk was very fruitfull for International students during their stress time and if we follow
some habbits then we can easily overcome this issues.