GDC Baramulla Organizes Talk on ‘Mental Health Issues

Baramulla October 16:(KNS) Postgraduate Departments of Psychology and Computer Sciences in collaboration with NSS wings of the college celebrated International Mental Health Week-2020from October 6 to 10, 2020. This year the theme of the International Mental Health week 2020 was“Mental Health for All: Greater Investment-Greater Access”.
As part of the weeklong celebrations, Dr. Abdul Majeed Ganai delivered an extension lecture on “Community mental health interventions with special reference to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic”.
Prof. Mohammad Maqbool Rather, Principal of the collegetabled the journey and achievements of the esteemed guest, enumerated his roles as teacher, researcher and medical professional, and gave a formal welcome to the guest. Dr. Navshad Ahmad Wani, Head, P.G. Department of Psychology introduced the guest speaker and informed audiences about the upcoming events of the week like Counselling Session, Easy Competition, Photography Competition and Community Visit etc.
Dr. Ganai started with the basics of mental health, subsequently flagged various mental health and allied issues, and suggested different coping strategies in the face of mental health challenges exponentially aggravated by COVID-19 pandemic. He articulated that human body is the best machine in the universe, with dual tendency– positive and negative. It is the human capacity to work wisely on positive aspects while navigating the negative ones.
Dr. Ganai opined that a person could enjoy the real inner peace when he/she comes to the rescue of their fellow human beings and lessens their sufferings– psychological or otherwise. He also voiced the deficient professional and expert help as a matter of concern, specifically, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and suggested an alternative in terms of community intervention. Community intervention comprisesABCD model where A stand for awareness, which helps fear psychosis to fade away; B stands for basics, suggesting focusing on basics without delving into the details; C stands for community concern; D stands for do something.
He emphasised upon faith healing, as in today’s crisis where technology and manpower seems tiny as a development, faith played great role in boosting immunity. A message of joining hands and working together were the concluding remarks of the lecture.
The lecture was followed by a threadbare discussion on the issue noted above and a lively question/answer session where in faculty as well as students posed a volley of questions vis-à-vis mental health and allied issues. All the queries raised by participants were answered to the highest level of satisfaction.
The session culminated with vote of thanks presented byProf. Arshad Ahmad Yatoo, Head, Department of Computer Science.(KNS)

 

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