Counseling can play a transformative role in the lives of students by addressing their emotional, academic, and personal challenges. It equips them with the tools to overcome obstacles, believe in their potential, and build a brighter future.
Counselling unit works with students with following objectives:
- Enhancing psychological well-being.
- Conducting interventions and introducing better coping strategies to handle socio-emotional and behavioral issues of students.
- Work on preventive measures by creating awareness so that students are in capacity to deal with the issues that pose threat to their growth in future.
Keeping these in mind following activities are planned.
Individual Counselling: Being teens confined to home during the lockdown had its own difficulties and challenges. These students often face unique challenges that can affect their emotional well-being, academic performance, and future opportunities.
- Emotional Support : experience of stress, anxiety due to financial struggles, family issues, or social stigmas. Counseling provides a safe space for these students to express their feelings, work through emotional difficulties, and develop coping strategies.
- Academic Guidance: These students might face additional obstacles in their education, such as a lack of resources, unstable living conditions, or inadequate family support. Counselors help students to manage their workload, set realistic goals, and stay motivated.
- Addressing Family and Environmental Factors: Many students in low socio-economic backgrounds deal with difficult family situations or live in environments that negatively affect their well-being. A counselor can help these students cope with family issues, violence, or unhealthy living conditions and guide them toward healthier solutions.
- Promoting Mental Health Awareness: Counseling raises awareness, reduces stigma, and helps students understand that seeking help is a step toward achieving mental and emotional well-being.
Overall, the support provided through individual counseling can help students develop resilience and a positive mindset, which can carry them through adversity. As they develop better emotional regulation, academic strategies, and personal confidence, they are more likely to succeed both in school and in life.
Group sessions / Awareness sessions: Keeping the age group in mind and also their needs following sessions were conducted for the students:
For Std X:
- Study Skills
- current study habits
- understanding effective study techniques
- creating a study schedule
- prioritizing tasks
- having a positive mindset.
- The techniques like – Mind Mapping, practice test and review techniques were taught to the students.
- Time Management
- What is time management and why is it important
- introduce them to techniques that will help them make goals
- prioritizing tasks
- manage their time effectively – ways
- Time robbers
For Std IX:
- Know and Grow: topics covered –
- Bodily cleanliness
- Environmental cleanliness
- Eating nutritious food
- Cleanliness of mind (through exercise, yoga, meditation etc.)
- Demonstration of Meditation
- Bodily changes and puberty
- Psycho-emotional changes that take place during puberty
- Sexuality
- Controlled Usage of social media –
- What is media? – Social media and its types
- Impact of the same on us
- Advantages and disadvantages of Social media
- Social media addiction – signs
- Controlled usage of social media
For Std VIII:
- Aggression –
- Defining aggression and its causes.
- Identifying triggers of aggression in daily life.
- Understanding the impact and consequences of aggression.
- Understanding the difference between assertive and aggressive communication.
- Learning ways to manage stress, which may lead to aggressive behavior.
* I have also attached the photos of today’s sessions held on Usage of Social Media and Aggression below.
