Impact of counseling on psychological health during lockdown of Covid-19

Abstract

Covid-19 is one of the biggest issues of the world. It is an untreatable and communicable disease. Therefore lots of countries are in a lockdown process. Our government has also announced lockdown since mid of March 2020. During this pandemic people are feeling psychological presser like anxiety, depression and stress because they are not able to come out their homes and are not in a position to fulfill their needs. In this situation central and state government has launched various types of counseling programs to reduce their psychological presser. Counseling is one of the best strategies in which counselors provide support to the people to keep them healthy. Now, this is a part of regular follow up by psychologists, during this pandemic of covid-19. The main intention of this study is to know the impact of counseling on the psychological health of adults. There were two groups in the study-one group was counseling taker (including quarantined people) and another group was without counseling taker. Every group had 50 adults and they were selected by purposive sampling method through online and from quarantine centre. All the samples were administered Anxiety, Depression and Stress Scale to measure their psychological health. The present study reveals that counseling taker adults had less anxiety, depression and stress in comparison to without counseling taker adults. Thus counseling significantly influences the level of psychological health of the respondents. The study also shows that male adults feel greater level of anxiety, depression and stress in comparison to females during lockdown.

Subject Classification:

• 91C05

Keywords:

• Counseling
• Psychological health
• Lockdown
• Covid-19