COUNSELLING SESSIONS

MAY BE AN IMPORTANT AREA TO SUPPORT

HOW WE CAME TO REALISE THAT COUNSELLING SESSIONS MAY BE AN IMPORTANT AREA TO SUPPORT

At a time when the world has had to adapt to the ‘new norm’ of living as an extension of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health was one of the most impacted health condition after COVID-19 that affected the young and old alike.

Of course, there were other serious impacts of loss of livelihood, job losses, pay cuts all impacting on economic conditions of a large cross section of people, migrant, casual workers, informal and formal sector, all grappling with both the virus and survival.

It was around this time that information came in about conditions of young people who had also been experiencing challenges of their emotions as they struggled to cope with various kinds of conflicting emotions and while mostly being indoors as schools remained close.

Despite classes resuming online resulting in other challenges beyond online safety, that JAAC which was reaching out to keep abreast of each other’s well-being realized the need to reach out to the school goers, mostly in their teens.

This was a group of adolescents that needed an empathetic listening, to hold their hands and also their hearts, to attend to their fears of the virus and the uncertain future as the administration were themselves battling to confirm concrete decisions.

There were recommendations for planning sessions with parents on parenting too so that parents could be both supportive and not intrusive at the same time!

This followed inputs that teenagers were feeling lonely by themselves and also overwhelmed by the compulsions of parents to conform to their directives all the time!

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