UAE Business: BITS Pilani Dubai sets up Mental Wellness programme to combat post pandemic issues – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: BITS Pilani Dubai sets up Mental Wellness programme to combat post pandemic issues – Gulf Digital News

Acknowledging the mental health challenges faced by everyone during the covid years and recognising the need for post pandemic support, BITS (Birla Institute of Technology and Science) Pilani Dubai, an institution offering engineering programmes, has launched a mental wellness programme for students, faculty and staff at their campus.

The therapy-based program will provide one-on-one counseling and quality clinical intervention to those facing depression, social anxiety, relationship issues or any other mental health concerns. This extensive wellness intervention program is designed for students to improve their life-skills especially in terms of self-management, stress management, emotional intelligence and time management.

The academic disruption caused by the pandemic has severely affected the student community at large. Hence as an extension to the wellness programme the leading engineering university, BITS Pilani, Dubai campus has also announced for the first time a weeklong orientation program for the new post Covid batch of undergraduate students to help them ease into university life and work.

The global reputation of BITS Pilani draws bright, accomplished international students from around the world. Currently over 45 per cent of the students are international students who have enrolled from outside the UAE. As such this orientation is designed for new students to understand the