15-Feb-2013 Students of Karakambadi Zilla Parishad High School
submitting the questionnaire as part of the psychological assessment drive
taken up by RASS Balaji Bala Vikas
‘The idea is to undertake overall personality and behavioural assessment of the
students’
TIRUPATI : Though high school students suffer from mental disorders like
stress, anxiety, fear, phobia, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and
hallucination, they hardly get to be heard until it takes an ugly turn, which
we learn by hindsight, could be prevented with a timely intervention.
In a first-of-its-kind study, the students of Karakambadi Zilla Parishad High
School near Tirupati got an opportunity to get their mental health status
assessed. Balaji Bala Vikas, a unit of Rashtriya Seva Samithi (RASS), has taken
up the task in association with ‘ChildFund India’ to prepare a psychological
profile with the help of a questionnaire containing 70 queries on symptoms felt
by the students in various case scenarios.
The two-month-long exercise, which began on Thursday, has been aimed at
preparing a comprehensive database on the mental health status of the children.
The two-pronged strategy is to use the database for further studies on child
health as well as retain it for interventional therapy when the student
undergoes a psychological problem.
“Tall talks during examinations on overcoming exam phobia, improving
concentration and memory power, scaling summits in life etc. do not work unless
the real issue is addressed.
The student’s mental health condition has to be studied, the problem identified
and suitable intervention provided to prepare him/her for the challenge,” says
N.B. Sudhakar Reddy, a counselling psychologist who conducted the study on 690
students from class VI to X. After Thursday’s mass counselling session, Dr.
Reddy plans to have a one-on-one to offer cognitive behavioural therapy,
relaxation techniques, meditation, neuro-linguistic programming and even
self-hypnotism, if found required. Symptoms of suicidal tendency and
kleptomania also surfaced in some participants, he added, wishing to keep the
details confidential.
According to BBV project manager D. Jayachandra Naidu and event coordinator N.
Suresh Babu, the idea is to undertake the overall personality and behavioural
assessment of the students by taking their family and school environment into
cognizance.
This, they say, is in tune with the proposal doing the rounds on putting in
place a national mental health policy.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/efforts-to-prepare-mental-health-database-take-off/article4416907.ece
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