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Why Is It Important To Consider The Mental Wellbeing Of The Employees In Companies, Now More Than Ever?

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Since numbers excite us and give us a measurable estimate, let us talk about the current most pressing issue in numbers! Yes, let us talk about mental health in numbers! Do you know the alarming numbers revolving around mental health in India? According to a 2019 study conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in India, 1. Around 7.5% of …

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What Are The Reasons Behind The Rising Mental Health Issue Among The Youth

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On an average 10-20% adolescents throughout the world suffer from mental health problems. More than half of these problems begin before the age of 15, yet such issues are left under-diagnosed and under-treated (Kessler et al, 2007; WHO, 2020). According to the National Mental Health Survey of India, among the youth mental health conditions account for 7.3% out of the …

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Loneliness Among Young Adults During The COVID-19 Pandemic And Increase In Mental Health Problems

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Mental Illness Is Our Epidemic within the Corona-virus Pandemic” (Miller, 2020). The novel corona virus disease is not restricted to physical illness. In a very short period of time, it has triggered economic, social and mental crisis (Usmanetal., 2020). Is covid 19 the stepping stone for an upcoming mental health crisis? It is a natural bodily response of an individual …

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Loneliness

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A word most of us are all too familiar with. And yet not many of us understand it. We all have experienced it at different points in time. We all have experienced it in different forms and intensities. Wikipedia defines it as “Loneliness is an unpleasant emotional response to perceived isolation. Loneliness is also described as social pain—a psychological mechanism …

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Normalizing “The Talk”

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We live in a society, Where sex education, live in relationships, one night stands. Have always been a taboo. These things I never discussed openly in families. This is because we Indians are very steeped in traditions or our interpretation of traditions. So while we are very quick to embrace the West when it comes to our clothes, the way …

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Video Games As A Coping Mechanism

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Every one of us must have been allured by the tempting graphics and the instant gratification provided by the video games. They were designed for the sole purpose of entertainment which appealed to the young population. With the advancement in technology, the focus shifted from entertainment to other reasons why people started playing video games. Imagine that you have the …

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Use Of Cognitive Therapy In Treatment For Anxiety And Panic Disorders: A Look Through Scientific Studies

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However, David Clark broadly defined Cognitive Therapy as the process of identification of distorted thoughts, maladaptive beliefs and/or assumptions and consequent reshaping of the distorted cognitions with reality including and not limited to thought monitoring, and thought challenging, etc. The cognitive model of psychopathology uses the information processing theory as a corollary through which specific data is gathered, interpreted, and …

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Should Animal Research In Psychology Be Eliminated?

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Animal researches were effective in finding the effects of alcoholism in pregnancy, finding ways to deal with alcoholism and substance addiction, impact on improving the approach towards treating obesity (APA, Psy 301-CSULB, 1994). These researches including experiments with the animal have a huge impact on the education industry as well as on many improvements in studies of learning and cognitive …

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Augmenting Employee Empowerment At Workplace

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When attempting to understand how organizational theorists have attempted to define employee empowerment, two kinds of empowerment come into the picture. First is structural empowerment associated with the delegation of power by managers to employees. The second is psychological empowerment-based primarily on self-determination and intrinsic value. Most definitions of empowerment refer to some aspect of control over decision making, control …

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COVID-19: How It Psychologically Affected The Rural Communities

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Let’s start with the lockdown when there was no public transport, no travel permitted (except by those approved by the government), and very little transport of goods. Till 24th March, the spread of this pandemic was an urban phenomenon, largely found in locations that had foreign travelers and in a few smaller towns which had migrants from abroad. Since the …