1_Bhola_0680828_Short_Seminar_Report_1 Essay

Student Name : Bhola

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

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 .

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

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.