“We are currently coordinating a network of staff and our external psychologists to offer emergency psychological assistance to students and staff who feel affected by this event,” said Silvie Šimonová, manager of the Masaryk University Student Advisory Centre
The experts of the advisory centre offer the possibility to arrange consultations by e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Half-hour online appointments are available in Czech, English and Ukrainian. Further information can be found on the advisory centre’s website in the Students section. Masaryk University staff have also already offered their online assistance directly to Charles University assistance coordinators.
The Teiresiás Centre also works with psychologists to mediate communication with people with disabilities. “People with specific needs, such as sign language communication, can contact us. We know that there are more people with hearing impairments and sign language users among the staff and students directly at the Prague Faculty of Arts, so we believe that our help could be useful there as well,” said Boris Janča, director of the Teiresiás Centre.
“Share your feelings and thoughts, whatever they may be, with others. Try not to judge them and just accept the simple fact that all of this is a healthy attempt by our minds to integrate such an experience into our personal and social story,” says a statement issued by MU Faculty of Medicine on its Facebook account. “For some of us, the event may trigger fear for ourselves, and for our loved ones. Whatever negative feelings, anxieties, frightening dreams or fear may appear in the following days in this context, keep in mind that this is a natural part of how we cope with a traumatic event,” says Miroslav Světlák, head of the Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics, in the aforementioned recommendation.