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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 5 years 8 months ago
Helping children to find ways to express themselves through creative activities, and providing structure in the day – if that is possible – through establishing routines, particularly if they are not going to school anymore, can be beneficial.
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Ishita sukhija
Ishita sukhija 5 years 8 months ago
"Learning Patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered we feel life is easier" Yes,it's very true that during this Unprecedented time everyone specially students and teachers are facing various stressful situations.The students who want to give their best and want to have a good result are finding it difficult to study online.Teachers are not able to give more of their time for teaching online...still they are giving thier day and nights just thinking about student's future.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 8 months ago
Simple strategies that can address this can include giving young people the love and attention that they need to resolve their fears, and being honest with children, explaining what is happening in a way that they can understand, even if they are young
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 8 months ago
Children may find that they want to be closer to their parents, make more demands on them, and, in turn, some parents or caregivers may be under undue pressure themselves.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 8 months ago
Although all children are perceptive to change, young children may find the changes that have taken place difficult to understand, and both young and older children may express irritability and anger
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 8 months ago
Being at home can place some children at increased risk of, or increased exposure to, child protection incidents or make them witness to interpersonal violence if their home is not a safe place. This is something that is very concerning.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 8 months ago
If schools have closed as part of necessary measures, then children may no longer have that sense of structure and stimulation that is provided by that environment, and now they have less opportunity to be with their friends and get that social support that is essential for good mental well-being.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 8 months ago
Children are likely to be experiencing worry, anxiety and fear, and this can include the types of fears that are very similar to those experienced by adults, such as a fear of dying, a fear of their relatives dying, or a fear of what it means to receive medical treatment
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