counselling

1. PRESENTED BY:
OSORO M FREDRICK
Counselling psychologist
0717268348/0728087101
moengaosoro@gmail.com
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3. Mental Health:
 It is defined as a state of well-being in
which every individual realizes his or her
own potential, can cope with the normal
stresses of life, can work productively and
fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution
to his or her community (WHO, 2007).
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4.  Mental ill health refers to the general mental
health problems we can all experience in certain
stressful circumstances; e.g, work pressures
,financial constraints, inadequate food, loss and
grief. Can cause us to experience: poor
concentration; mood swings and sleep
disturbance.
 Such problems are usually of temporary nature,
are relative to the demands a particular situation
makes on us and generally respond to support
and reassurance.
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5.  Nobody is 100% per cent normal and
everybody needs some sort of guidance,
counselling and advice to overcome anxiety,
depression, worries and other major/minor
mental illness arising out of the stresses, strains
and competitiveness of modern society.
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6.  Mental health awareness reduces stigma.
 Mental health awareness increases the chances
for early intervention, which can result in a fast
recovery.
 Awareness reduces negative adjectives that
have been set to describe our people with a
mental illness
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7.  Depression and suicide
 Substance use disorders
 Gambling disorders
 Trauma and stress related disturbances
 Panic disorder
 Separation anxiety
 Pathological grief
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8.  Medical perspective – In the medical perspective,
Covid 19 is known as a disease caused by SARS-Cov
-2 virus . Like other respiratory viruses Covid -19
causes inflammation of the airway from the nose
sinuses and throat all the way to the airways of the
lungs .
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9.  The disease has two phases:The first is viral replication
phase whereby the patient may be asymptomatic or
having symptoms but not severely sick to require
admission.
 The second is the inflammation phase whereby the
person is sick, requiring admission to hospital .By
then the viral replication is over and the immune
system is overreacting to the remains of the virus, not
the actual virus. The greater the viral replication
during phase 1, the greater the viral load and
subsequently the viral remains fuel the inflammation
during the 2nd phase
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10. From its impact on human living, this pandemic and
the sudden condition of lockdown is viewed as :
 Trauma
 Crisis
 Stressor
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11.  Trauma is an overwhelming event that renders one
helpless and or fears that he or she might die.
 It refers to situations in which the victims are
rendered powerless and great danger is involved
 Human beings who have experienced and witnessed
trauma exhibit behavioral, physiological and
psychological responses.
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12.  Traumatization occurs when both internal and
external resources are inadequate to cope with
external threat
 The way we think, the way we learn, the way we
remember things, the way we feel about ourselves,
the way we feel about other people, and the way
we make sense of the world are all profoundly
altered by traumatic experience
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13.  Nigtmares
 Avoidance of places,thoughts and feelings
 Startled responses/overeactivity
 Halucinations and day dreaming
 Fear
 Irritability
 Disorientation
 Forgetfulness
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14. PRESENTED BY:
OSORO M FREDRICK
Counselling psychologist
0717268348/0728087101
moengaosoro@gmail.com
THE END
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