State of the art: psychological vulnerability in university students

Abstract

Admission to a Higher Education Institution (HEI) is a reason for enthusiasm for all students who have taken the ENEM or vestibular, and when faced with this new reality, the student triggers a series of high expectations regarding the academic, professional future and personal, which can arouse destructive feelings by not knowing how to deal with this new context. Based on this, the relevance of studies like this one is in contributing to the knowledge of the incidence and the main characteristics of emotional issues in university students, where the institution will know the students' needs and will be able to offer, in addition to scientific knowledge, social and psychological support. Thus, this discussion was possible through the mapping of some academic productions on psychological and emotional vulnerability, whose databases were: SciElo and Google Scholar, in order to promote a bibliographic survey of the theme. Therefore, it is considered that it is convenient for HEIs to invest in caring for the preservation of the mental and emotional health of their academics.