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“My client is a 15 years old girl, whose parents got separated when she was 8 years old and now studies in a Residential School. Due to the pandemic situation she is at her father’s home. Both father and mother got married again. Now she has to make a decision about which parent she wants to live with and there is family pressure upon her decision. How do I help her?

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Dr. Ravi Pinjarkar, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS answered 4 weeks ago • Family conflict

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I have a 16 year old adolescent client who is stuck at home as the school is shut due to the COVID- 19 pandemic. Her parents, especially her father, expect her to study all day, and be productive during this situation. My client is feeling overwhelmed and highly distressed. What do I say to her?

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Dr. Aravind Raj, Dept. of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS answered 2 months ago • Family conflict

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How do I help my client (a 50 year old homemaker) whose daughter is stuck in another city for her job?My client is constantly stressed about her daughter’s health and any COVID related news causes more anxiety. As a counselor, what can I do?

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Dr Sailaxmi Gandhi Dept. of Nursing, NIMHANS answered 2 months ago • Separation from loved ones

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As a counselor, how can I help clients who are having disturbed sleep despite following sleep hygiene measures?

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Dr. Nitin Anand, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS answered 2 months ago • Health worries

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I have a client who has been diagnosed with depression prior to the lockdown. My client was seeking therapy services. However, post lockdown, even though he needs sessions, he is unable to have sessions due to lack of privacy in his house even for telephonic sessions. How should I proceed to best help the client?

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Dr. Poornima Bhola, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS answered 2 months ago • Other

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A client asks a counsellor – “Collective stress because of bad relations with father and no growth in career has deteriorated my thinking abilities. I feel left out as people around me are moving ahead whereas I am still at the same position as 4 years back. I don’t know where to get success from.”

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Dr. Devvarta Kumar, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS answered 2 months ago • Family conflict

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How to address mental health in child care institutions through their caregivers during the COVID 19 pandemic?

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Dr. Aarti Jagannathan, Dept. of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS answered 2 months ago • Other

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A Counselor wants to know how to help a father who says: “My son is suffering from Schizophrenia since 2015. He is 28 years old. He is on medicines. But from two months his conditions became worse. Please suggest for increasing doses of medicines.”

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Dr. Yamini Devendran, Dept. of Psychiatry, NIMHANS answered 2 months ago • Feeling sad and down

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My client’s father has multiple medical problems (unrelated to COVID). The father is admitted to hospital for management of some acute issues. My client is all the time feeling extreme tension, frustration and even anger at the father for not taking care of his health and escalating his health issue. The client feels angry and frustrated as the admission has resulted in need to be in the hospital and running around between home, pharmacy, billing and the ward. This has increased the risk of exposure to COVID. He is very irritable and snapping at everyone and his own blood pressure is also going high. There is hardly anyone else in the family to share caregiver burden, other than the mother at home.

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Dr. Nitin Anand, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS answered 3 months ago • Feeling sad and down, Health worries

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How to support a child of 10 years as he lost his father to an accident in the lockdown.

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Dr. Nithya Poornima, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS answered 4 months ago • Loss

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Can we conduct online assessments for new and existing clients, as in-person is not possible at this moment?

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Dr. Thomas Kishore, Dept. of Clinical Psychology answered 4 months ago • Other

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How many sessions in total should be given to a person having severe anxiety over the telephone (Telecounselling)? Also tell what should be the duration of each session?

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Dr. Poornima Bhola, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS answered 4 months ago • Other

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I am a counselor posted in a facility where COVID infected patients are being cared for. I use PPE and try to do what I can. But I am not able to help much, I cannot even relate with the patient as usual. There are physical barriers due to mask, etc., and emotional barriers also – I feel disconnected mentally. This feeling of mental disconnect also makes me feel guilty.

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Dr. Ravi Pinjarkar, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS answered 4 months ago • Feeling sad and down, Other

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Mother of a 14 year year old is extremely worried about the news that schools may possibly re-open in July. Knowing her son, she feels afraid that he would be exposing himself to a lot of risks not just in school but also while walking to and back from school. Her anxiety is getting un-manageable as she cannot stop thinking of the worst possible scenarios. The counselor has tried to help her look at the situation more realistically and tried to re-assure but this is not helping. What should the counselor do?

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V2020 asked 4 months ago • Worries about future

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I was asked to counsel a lady whose husband attempted suicide after he was suspected of having been infected with COVID. His results were due. She is in another city and cannot travel. Now, even when his result has come negative, he is hardly speaking to her over phone and not responding to messages either. He has little support in the town – its not his native – he moved into there only 4 months ago. She feels very helpless. How could I help her as a counselor?

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Dr. Ajit Dahale, Dept. of Psychiatry, NIMHANS answered 4 months ago • Feeling sad and down

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