How can we provide psychological support to someone who is having financial difficulties during these times?

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Megha.singh asked 4 years ago
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Dr. Sojan Antony, Dept. of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS Expert answered 4 years ago
Financial difficultly can be assessed through sources of income and monthly expenditure of the family or individual. Similarly, it would be better to map available resources, schemes and support systems to those individuals. You can enable individuals to limit their expenditures and plan activities to generate new income sources. If the person or family is troubled by private lenders, you can educate them to seek free legal aid services to prevent harassment by money lenders. Both state and central governments are offering various schemes for supporting medical and food expenditures. You could guide them to seek benefits of those schemes. Reassure them that crisis is a temporary issue.