Services

CENTRE FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL AID AT THE GDYNIA MARITIME SCHOOL

Thanks to extensive experience in the work with seamen, the cooperation with the Maritime School in Gdynia, and the awareness of the unique qualities, traits of character and multifarious skills, including interpersonal communication required for the profession of a seaman, we meet the needs of seamen and their families by creating the Centre for Personal Development and Psychological Support.

Services available at our Centre will enable us to determine the source, scope, and intensity of emerging psychological problems and to develop the most effective advice or treatment. We also aim to obtain information on the possibility of self-improvement, self-development, coping with stress and changes in everyday life.

Adress: Gdynia Maritime School ul. Hryniewickiego 10 81-340 Gdynia

Telephone Registration: tel.: (58) 621 75 41; 661 26 55

WE OFFER A WIDE RANGE OF SERVICES:

1. 1. Individual counselling with regard to problems resulting from:
• working in isolation at sea, family and social isolation (coping with frustration, negative feelings and addictions),
• family and marital problems conditioned by the specific nature of the work at sea,
• educational problems in children caused by father’s cyclical absence periods.

2. Counselling for persons:
• with emotional problems, for example depression or anxiety disorders, neuroses and other psychological disorders,
• persons suffering from psychosomatic conditions, i.e. the pain, vegetative and sleeping disorders.

3. Individual and group therapy for married couples and families, aimed at adults who encounter difficulties relating to people and experience unhappiness with different aspects of their life.

4. Social skills development:
• assertiveness, i.e. the ability to express emotions and opinions in a direct, straightforward and honest way, at the same time, respecting emotions, attitudes, opinions and rights of others;
• constructive communication within the family, improving relations between family members;
• coping with stress by learning tension release methods, relaxation techniques and the changing stress-inducing routine and habits.

5. Support groups for seamen’s wives based on the dynamics and specific functioning of seamen’s families, which heavily rely on relationships with people living in similar circumstances.

6. Psychological diagnosis and therapy for children and teenagers with regard to:
• school problems in terms of the appraisal of the level of intellectual development and dyslexia
• education problems at school and at home
• behavioural disorders, bed-wetting, stuttering, twitching,
• individual therapy aimed at solving current problems,
• group therapy for children and teenagers having problems with peer relations.

7. Workshops for children and teenagers:
• "Learning to like learning”
• “How to cope with stress?” for lower secondary and secondary school pupils.

8. Workshops for parents who want to better understand the behaviour and needs of their children and teenagers and help them avoid alcohol and drugs.

9. Recruitment Consultancy – this service is directed at companies which employ seamen and is based on the procedure of constructing the best personality model with regard to professional adaptation.