The Social Supervision Unit is a part of student affairs deanship. It focuses on the preventive, therapeutic, and ‎development aspects to assess students' involvement in university life. The ‎unit also aims at offering psychological aids related to students’ academic, ‎personal, social and political life events.‎ Student affairs deanship also offers other services that shape students’ skills through several ‎activities and voluntary work through leading the students associations.‎

Mechanisms and Methods

Mechanisms:

• Professional Counseling: The unit staff assesses students to enrol in the ‎appropriate academic programs.‎
• Academic Counseling: Students visit their faculty or department ‎consultant for academic counselling.‎
• Psychological Counseling: Students are provided with methods to ‎develop their self-estimation and solutions to overcome adaptation ‎obstacles.‎
• Social Counseling: The unit staff analyzes students’ personal affairs and ‎intellectual and behavioural orientations.
• Economic support that aims to enable students financially to pay education fees, or meet their basic needs while learning, such as housing, transportation, or purchasing textbooks…etc.

Methods:

• Individual Counseling: The unit’s specialists meet with students taking ‎into consideration privacy and confidentiality standards.‎
• Group Counseling: A group of the unit staff works on an educational, ‎cultural, therapeutic or training issue.‎
• Social Counseling: The unit holds extended meetings inside or outside ‎campus to educate students in psychological healthcare and ‎social, behavioural issues.‎
• Searching for job opportunities for students, whether in facilities inside the university itself, or in facilities outside the university, based on the network of relationships with the local community.