About Us
The Hungarian Association for Counselling in Higher Education (FETA) was founded in 1995 to incorporate various organizations and individuals dealing with counselling at higher education institutions in Hungary. Functioning as an umbrella organization for all those who promote or practise student counselling, FETA strives to generate a student-centred attitude at universities, colleges and social institutions.
Considering the growing needs of young people in the midst of the current frenetic social, economic and technological transition, our mission is to establish and co-ordinate a countrywide professional workshop to exchange experiences and to organize the supervision and continual training of mental health professionals who counsel future and present students (e.g. psychologists, teaching staff, doctors, therapists, social workers and peer counsellors).
Our Association aims to co-operate with higher education counselling services on a national scale to develop informational, consulting and therapeutic methods utilized both in individual and group cases. Thus, we intend to provide professional assistance in the creation of a modern institutional system which includes regular mental hygiene consultation for teachers and courses for student counsellors.
The Association puts strong emphasis on endorsing the culture of higher education counselling in and outside of Hungary, purposing to seek and foster relations with foreign partners and to represent our members at the international level.
Hungarian Association for Counselling in Higher Education has been a registered charity since 1998.