{"id":158782,"date":"2021-05-19T01:18:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T19:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=158782"},"modified":"2021-05-19T01:18:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T19:48:45","slug":"rgu-conducts-prog-on-mental-health-mgmt-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/rgu-conducts-prog-on-mental-health-mgmt-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"RGU conducts prog on mental health mgmt during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, 18 May:<\/strong> Rajiv Gandhi University&#8217;s (RGU) psychology department organized an online interactive session on &#8216;Managing mental health and coping in the pandemic&#8217; on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chairing the inaugural session, RGU Vice Chancellor Prof Saket Kushwaha stressed on the role of teachers and parents in &#8220;building resilience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In having a good mental health, one needs to be active seeker and take this pandemic as an opportunity, utilize the time to maximize one&#8217;s growth in whatever way one can,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Kushwaha advised the participants to focus on what one can do and not to worry much about &#8220;what is beyond one&#8217;s control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pro-VC Prof Amitava Mitra delved into mental health and coping skills. He advised the participants to be resilient during this pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Registrar Dr NT Rikam urged the organizing committee to &#8220;focus on practice-based techniques on mental health and coping skills.&#8221; He also stressed on the importance of &#8220;filtering out negative news and taking only the content which is actually important and informative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the technical sessions, clinical psychologist<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oyin Mibang spoke on stress management, while assistant professor Pampak Khumukcham from the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal (Manipur) discussed &#8216;Coping strategies for emotional stability.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assistant Professor Dr Sandeep Panchal from RGU&#8217;s psychology department spoke on the topic &#8216;The awakening of mental health&#8217;, while assistant professor Sampreeti Das from the psychology and counselling department of the Don Bosco University, Assam, gave a lecture on the topic &#8216;Emotional freedom technique and its application&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Altogether four technical sessions were held, and around 100 participants from across the country attended the programme through Google Meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, 18 May: Rajiv Gandhi University&#8217;s (RGU) psychology department organized an online interactive session on &#8216;Managing mental health and coping in the pandemic&#8217; on Tuesday. Chairing the inaugural session, RGU Vice Chancellor Prof Saket Kushwaha stressed on the role of teachers and parents in &#8220;building resilience.&#8221; &#8220;In having a good mental health, one needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}