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    Center Policies and Procedures

    The Student Counseling Center provides support and psychotherapy services to students to overcome psychological, behavioral, social and emotional disorders and difficulties that may affect their performance. The Center is also an essential reference for faculty and staff; it facilitates their services in supporting students through counseling sessions, educational programs, and prevention strategies.
    This decision provides a framework for delivering support and advisory services to ensure that all eligible students benefit from student counseling services at Qatar University.

    Article (1)

    • This decision is called: "The decision of the university president regarding the services of the Student Counseling Center.
    • This decision applies to all affiliates of Qatar University, including faculty, students and administrative staff.

    Article (23)


    The Center's specialist deals with the student in an urgent case by providing him/her with the possible medical assistance within the University.

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    In emergency cases within the university, the Center’s specialist requests the student, if he is mentally present, to specify at least one person to contact him to come and accompany the student to the Emergency Department at Hamad Hospital.

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    The Center's specialist communicates with the Student Information Systems Section and obtains contact information with the student's family in the event that the student lacks right contact with reality and cannot provide contact information of the guardian.

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    In the case of emergency inside the University, family members of the student must sign the Center form for disclaimer of the Center, when they come to pick up the student, who is in an emergency case inside the University, and accompany him to the Emergency Department at Hamad Hospital.

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    The Center's specialist calls an ambulance to examine the student and take him to the Emergency Department, in the event that the student, who is in an emergency within the University, refuses to communicate with his family to take him to Hamad Hospital.

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    In emergency cases and in the event that it is not possible to obtain contact information of any member of the student’s family from the student himself, the Center’s specialist may inform the student’s family about the case circumstances without obtaining approval from the student.

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    The Center's specialist may inform the security authorities about the student who is in an emergency inside the University without obtaining the student's consent, in the event that it is not possible to communicate with his family.

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    The Center specialist may contact the student's family to inform them without obtaining the student's consent, in the event that the student calls from outside the University, declaring his intention to harm himself or others.

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    The Center’s specialist, at his discretion, may contact the security authorities to report about the case without obtaining the student’s consent anyways, even when communicating with the student’s family, in the event that the student calls from outside the University declaring his intention to harm himself or others.