New Delhi: Psychological counseling plays an important role during a pandemic to eliminate the pressure of Tihar prison inmates.
Depression and anxiety in prisoners increases various kinds because they are afraid of being unable to survive this disease.
However, counseling helps them adapt to the situation.
For more than a decade, 47-year-old Prabha Swayam has become a counseling inmates in Tihar.
He lost his friend, Shakuntala Choudhary, another counselor, to Covid-19.
“When a pandemic starts, it is a sad situation for prisoners.
Because of locking, the prison also witnessed restrictions, including stopping the family.
Inmates do not know about viruses and also tense about their families,” he told Ti.
Prison doctors provide training about Covid-19 to Prabha.
“We began to disseminate information about Covid-19 through counseling and slowly the prisoners became less nervous.
They were just afraid of not being able to see their families again,” he said.
He used to tell the prisoners that this is only a phase and they should not panic.
Sandeep Goel, Director General of Tihar, said that many counselors could not come to prison when the pulpem was at its peak.
“Professional counselors provide basic training to 100 staff, including supervisory assistants, head and warden heads, in counseling inmates,” he added.
Dr.
Deepak from the Indian Mental Health Foundation NGO said, “Separation and exile from family members resulted in a lack of information about their health, which worsened mental health problems, such as stress levels, anxiety and depression, among prisoners.
During the pulping pandemic period, if we interact With 20 inmates, 12 of them told us about fears related to the virus.
But when the situation began to improve, only 5-6 inmates who talked about this disease.
“Aryan, a 23-year-old psychological first aid provider, said” inmates began to compare Prison life with life outside.
They are worried about steps such as keeping social and worrying how it will be effectively implemented Tant Imagination.
“Sonali Dahiya, another psychological first aid provider, said the prisoners gave a mixed response about Covid-19.” Some think it is dangerous, while others treat it like a flu.
New prisoners are baked by older about the situation outside.
Their main concern is the closing of the city field.
They feel they will not be able to get out of prison.
This causes anxiety in it, “he added.
To turn their attention, Dahiya and other counselors began to carry out recreational activities, speech therapy, breathing exercises and modification techniques for behavior not only to distract them, but also in releasing anxiety, which helped them sleep more Good.
“The new inmates had difficulty accepting that they were in prison.
We made them accept reality through several counseling rounds.
This helps them handle things better, “Dahiya said.