Contacts and useful links
Contacts
Internal
- Academic Advisory Service
- Programme Advisors
- Drop-out counselling
- Department of Student Affairs (HSST)
- FHWS International (Options to go abroad & ways to FHWS)
- Officer for Students with Disabilities or Chronic Illnesses
- Women’s Affairs Officer
- Offers for Refugees (Welcome Team)
- Career Service
Regional Institutions
- Studentenwerk Würzburg (Psychotherapeutic, social and legal counselling)
- Katholische Hochschulgemeinde (KHG) - all confessions and non-denominational welcome
- Evangelische Studentengemeinde (ESG) - all confessions and non-denominational welcome
- Contact and information centre for students with disabilities or chronic illnesses of Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg (KIS)
- Hochschulsport (also available to students of FHWS Würzburg-Schweinfurt)
- Aktivbüro der Stadt Würzburg (Voluntary work and self-help)
- Out-patient therapy centres (see paragraph "Mental health")
Useful links
Mental health
Crisis support:
- with German Telefonseelsorge
- with Fachstelle Suizidberatung Würzburg (former Krisendienst (crisis service))
Counselling services for mental and social health (Socio-psychiatric services (SpDi)):
- with SpDi Erthal-Sozialwerks in Würzburg
- with SpDi of the Bavarian Red Cross in Würzburg
- with SpDi Caritas in Schweinfurt
Information on depression with Deutschen Depressionshilfe
Domestic and sexualised violence, abuse:
Pregnancy and family counselling:
- at Pro Familia in Würzburg
- with SkF in Würzburg (also online and anonymously)
- with SkF in Schweinfurt (also online and anonymously)
Debt counselling and insolvency services:
- with Christophorus Gesellschaft in Würzburg
- with the Kolping-Bildungszentrum in Schweinfurt
Addiction counselling and self-help:
Addiction self-help groups (see paragraph "Self-help groups"):
- with Kreuzbund
Würzburg:
Schweinfurt:
Self-help groups:
- in Würzburg
- in Schweinfurt
General counselling services (free of charge and non-binding)
- Schweinfurt: at the Gesprächsladen among others
- Würzburg: at the Beratungsstelle der Diakonie among others
Finding a psychotherapist:
- via the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Bayern (KVB)
- directly with Terminservicestelle Psychotherapie via phone: 116117 (available 24 hours, 7 days per week)
… or psychotherapy with psychotherapeutic out-patient clinics:
Würzburg:
- Hochschulambulanz für Psychotherapie (WAPP)
- Psychotherapeutischen Hochschulambulanz an der Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
- Psychotherapeutischen Ambulanz der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Verhaltensmodifikation (AVM)
Schweinfurt:
- Psychiatrischen Institutsambulanz in Schweinfurt (part of Psychiatrie Werneck)
Hospitals:
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (PPP) of Julius-Maximilian-Universität Würzburg
- Zentrum für seelische Gesundheit am König-Ludwig-Haus
- Krankenhaus für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatische Medizin Schloss Werneck
Movement
Health and movement offers by Volkshochschule (vhs):
- in Würzburg
- in Schweinfurt
Nutrition
- Preventative courses by German health insurances, e.g. by AOK, TK,...
- Nutrition and health courses of Volkshochschule Würzburg and Volkshochschule Schweinfurt
Stress management and prevention
Yoga, Taiji and Quigong and relaxation courses at the Volkshochschule (adult education centre):
- in Würzburg
- in Schweinfurt