Saturday, October 10, 2020

Mental Health awareness week

 दूसरोंं से अपनी खुशियाँ बाँटो,बढ़ जाएंगी।
दूसरोंं  से अपने  दर्द  बाँटो, घट जाएंगे।।

On World mental health day PVCHR is going to organize a week long program for creating awareness on mental health of adolescence, youth, survivors of gender based violence and torture and people of marginalized communities.

In 2008 PVCHR along with Dr. Inger Agger , Psychologist, DIGNITY: Danish Institute Against Torture developed Testimonial Therapy as brief narrative therapy  in local context and published manual “Giving Voice”. https://www.academia.edu/11316245/Manual_on_testimonial_therapy

 

In spam of 12 years organization provided support to more than thousand survivors and the two researches was published in torture magazine.  https://irct.org/assets/uploads/1018-8185_2015-2_22-33.pdf, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20065539/

The scientific paper wrote TT as an effective method for reducing psychological distress and increasing well-being and social participation in Indian survivors of TOV. Sharing their trauma story through the testimony process improved the survivors’ psychosocial functioning and enabled them to advance on the path to recovery, accepting new responsibilities and regaining satisfactory functioning in their families and environment. Furthermore, it appears that TT has a positive impact at the community level by promoting community empowerment.

#Mentalhealth #Awareness #Standwithsurvivors #worldmentalhealthday #youcandoit #takecare  #youarenotalone #worldmentalhealthday2020  #MentalHealthMatters


No comments: