The Department of Mental Health of Hunan University of Technology was established in 2008. In 2020, it was renamed Hunan University of Technology Peer Support Alliance. It is a group organization that spreads mental health knowledge to all teachers and students and organizes psychological mutual assistance activities under the guidance of teachers in mental health centers. It is an independent non-profit student self-management team of the school, which is affiliated to the Mental Health Education Center of the Student Affairs Office.
Peer-to-peer alliance of Hunan University of Technology, referred to as peer-to-peer alliance for short, is a student group with certain level and characteristics, an important bridge for students in our school to understand and know their mental health, and an important carrier for cultivating students' comprehensive quality, improving their artistic literacy and cultural literacy, and creating a rich campus cultural atmosphere.
Departmental principles:
(1) The Peer Mutual Aid Alliance works under the guidance of the School Mental Health Education Center.
(2) Peer alliance serves college students on the principle of helping others help themselves and popularizing mental health knowledge, and contributes to the spiritual civilization construction of schools and colleges.
(3) The purpose of peer alliance is to help college students explore themselves, know themselves, improve themselves, improve their personal psychological quality, create a positive psychological atmosphere, and promote the all-round development of college students in learning, choosing jobs, making friends and adapting to society.
Departmental purpose:
Unite the vast number of mental health enthusiasts, study, publicize, research and develop mental health knowledge, give full play to students' self-help and mutual assistance functions, enhance students' mental health awareness, improve their personality, improve their minds, tap their psychological potential, improve their quality of life and learning efficiency, promote the development of college students' mental health education, and make contributions to cultivating innovative talents with comprehensive quality.