摘要：The way in which university students relate to society emotionally or psychosocially has been gaining prominence in the contemporary world, which has been highlighted in university research, as well as leading universities to look at their students' mentaland emotional health. . The aim of this study was to analyze the opinion of university students of the student stay on how the university could support them in their psychosocial and mental health experiences. To this end, the qualitative and quantitativemethod involved the participation of 140 students, aged between 17 and 24 years, registered at the Technical Center for Psychosocial Care (NTAPS) of Unesp, Campus de Bauru, in 2018, beneficiaries of student allowance. The treatment of the data occurred through the analysis of textual content of the students answers about how the university could support them in their psychosocial aspects. This content was submitted to the textual statistics software, Iramuteq, which, through two analysis techniques, presented a word cloud and an analysis of similarity among the most evoked words in the students' speeches. The word cloud showed graphically that the most cited words were “student”, “university”, “being”, “offering” and “psychological assistance” and the similarity analysis demonstrated the interrelationships between these words. As a result, it was obtained that the students' speeches converge to highlight the importance of psychological assistance during the university period, as part of the student assistance service.
