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Manodarpan: Inviting ideas to combat Psycho-social stress on School and College Students, Teachers and Parents due to COVID-19 pandemic

Start Date :
Jul 21, 2020
Last Date :
Aug 21, 2020
23:45 PM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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The outbreak of the global pandemic COVID -19 presents a challenging time for everyone around the world. Not only is this pandemic a serious medical concern, but it also brings ...

The outbreak of the global pandemic COVID -19 presents a challenging time for everyone around the world. Not only is this pandemic a serious medical concern, but it also brings mixed emotions and psycho-social stressors for all. There are emerging mental health concerns with specific focus on Children, Adolescents and Youth as they more vulnerable to heightened level of stress, anxiety and fearfulness, along with a range of other emotional and behavioral issues. COVID-19 has also brought new stressors on Teachers and Parents hampering their capacity to provide positive support to their wards. While it is important to focus on continuing education on the academic front, we must give equal importance to the mental health and well-being of the students.

Manodarpan, an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, under the AatmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan, aims at mobilizing psycho-social support to help Children, Youth, Teachers and Parents country-wide in a comprehensive and multimodal manner during conditions like COVID-19 and after. For more information, please visit www.mhrd.gov.in/covid-19/

MyGov in collaboration with the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, hereby invites citizens to share ideas and inputs to combat the psycho-social stress on School & College Students, Teachers and Parents, caused due to COVID-19 pandemic. Selected comments may be featured on social media.

Last date of sending us your inputs is 21st August 2020

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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 6 years 3 weeks ago
Parents are likely experiencing significant stress during this time, so clinicians have a “double mission” of ensuring parents manage their own anxiety and stress while also modeling for their children.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 6 years 3 weeks ago
Teaching parents the importance of daily structure and consistency in their responses to their children’s behaviors is a priority.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 6 years 3 weeks ago
Children learn from watching adults, and since they will often be at home together now, they will observe not only what the adults in the home say, but also how they implement structure, ensure consistency and deal with their own emotions
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 6 years 3 weeks ago
The extent of this challenge depends on the family’s ability to provide support and structure at home, which further depends on the family’s unique dynamics, resources and stressors
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 6 years 3 weeks ago
The consistency of schedules, predictable rules and consequences, and set expectations teach children how to behave, develop self-discipline and impulse control and, importantly, a sense of safety and control. Clinically, we often see an exacerbation of behavioral problems in our pediatric patients when their routine or structure is disturbed.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 6 years 3 weeks ago
Daily structure is important to everyone, but particularly to children in their psychological and emotional development
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 6 years 3 weeks ago
Children need a sense of structure during quarantine Children will be challenged primarily by a lack of structure associated with the closing of schools.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 6 years 3 weeks ago
We can see the specific pandemic-related mental health challenges of four different age groups — children, college students, working-age adults and older adults.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 6 years 3 weeks ago
Although these initiatives are necessary to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, they may be causing widespread mental health effects, including depression and loneliness, among younger and older individuals alike, according to experts.
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