Give Chinese students access to leading psychiatric consultation and counselling.

The clinical team

• Yoren works with psychiatrists from hospital departments ranked among China’s top ten for psychiatry in Fudan University’s 2023 China Hospital Specialty Reputation Ranking.
• The team includes psychiatrists who hold the two highest clinical grades in Chinese hospitals (主任医师 and 副主任医师).
• Counsellors include National Level 2 Psychological Counsellors (国家二级心理咨询师). Some have worked in psychiatric hospitals, and some are qualified counselling supervisors.

Profiles for Professor Xiangyang Zhang, Dr Liu Shuangchen and Dr Gao Shiyuan are on the Yoren home page →

Referrals and institution-funded access

Institutions can refer students to Yoren or share it as an external option. To arrange a referral pathway or fund access for a group of students, contact Yoren directly.

Who can refer or share Yoren

• University counselling and student support services. Share Yoren as an external service when a student wants psychiatric assessment or ongoing counselling.
• International student offices. Direct students to Yoren when they ask for mental-health support or resources in Chinese.
• Student accommodation and residence teams. Share Yoren when a resident asks for psychiatric consultation or counselling.
• Community mental-health services. Refer students who are looking for a Chinese-speaking psychiatrist or counsellor.

Resources for students

Yoren’s student resources include:

• Yoren Psyclopedia75 sourced clinical entries on mental-health conditions and treatments.
• Psychology notes13 articles on student adjustment, study and everyday difficulties.
• Clinical assessment libraryChinese-language measures with scored results, explanations and next-step guidance.
• Chinese international student mental-health studyA current project and a route for institutional collaboration.
• Psychological toolsCBT thought records and short guided exercises.
• Emergency contactsCountry-by-country emergency numbers, urgent-care routes and official sources.

Academic support

When coursework, supervision or academic English contributes to a student’s distress, PhD tutors and university lecturers provide one-to-one tutoring in the student’s own discipline. Native English-speaking teachers with substantial academic or research-writing experience teach academic English. Students can use either service alongside psychiatric consultation or counselling.