This webinar is organized by Persatuan Mahasiswa Sains Komputer (PERSAKA) on 8 January 2021(Friday) at 3pm. This program is held using Facebook live by Dr Zulfikar bin Ahmad, the UTM’s counselling Director. The objectives of the webinar are:
- Acquire knowledge about mental health
- Able to identify your own problems and ways to cope with them.
- Get advice on how to help people around us with these situations
Role: Participant
This activity possesses such attributes:
- Communication Skills.
- Thinking Skills.
- Adaptability
To ensure that students can unleash their full potentials unaffected by psychological problems, so we need to make sure our mental is stable. Due to this COVID-19 pandemic, many people experience issues with mental health such as stress, anxiety and depression especially students who are currently attending online classes. So, the webinar starts with the introduction by DR. Iqbal Tariq, the advisor of Persaka and immediately get into the point. Dr Zulfikar have shared the definition of stress, anxiety and depression and gave the reason why many people cope with these problems. For example, many first-year student does not able to adapt to university life and their results dropped a lot. After that, the presenter replied students answer one by one, hopefully it helped to solve their problems. He suggested that students can get mental treatment by finding counsellors when they cannot cope with their stress. Students should not be shy as this is a serious problem. People will not know what one has gone through if he does not talk to others. He has also suggested that students should find a people to talk with, whether a friend or their family. Else, things might get worse. For about 1 hour and 40 minutes, the webinar ended.
Self-reflection
In this webinar, I have learned the way to overcome and avoid stressfulness. I am glad that I participated in this webinar because the presenter has really provided lots of ways to cope with stress and anxiety. After listen to the reason of being stress, I have found that most of the time I aim myself for too high. It is better to start step by step and accomplish what I can do presently.
In this webinar, I have found that communications skills are important. I should always talk with my friends or family that I trusted when I am stress. They often will invite me to play game or going out together during hard times. Besides, thinking skills are needed to prevent myself from overthinking. I should not always thinking of the worst situation. In reality, sometime the problem will be gone by itself when time pass. Adaptability is the most important part. When I come into a new environment, I should find new friends who are comfortable to communicate. Besides, I should not over rely to my previous experience when working in a new place.