Education For Mental Health : Rethinking Issues In Guidance And Counselling

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Stress and Burnout: Promoting Resilience Among School Teachers/Ambika Bhatia. 2. Mental Health Concerns of School Children: A Psycho-Educational Perspective/Anita Vaidyanathan.  3. Understanding Children\'s Play at Pre-Primary Level: A Psychosocial Perspective/Anshika Gupta. 4. Locating Children\'s Well-Being in National Policies on Mental Health and Education/Dinkar Saxena. 5. Psychological Stress: The Experience of the Science Student/Gagandeep Bajaj. 6. Adolescence in India: Issues and Concerns/Kavita Vasudev. 7. School Life Experiences of Children with Learning Disabilities as Reflected in their Classroom Interaction and Social Adjustment in Schools/Ravneet Kaur. 8. Deconstructing Harry Potter: A Psycho-Educational Perspective/Shefali Srivastava. 9. Towards Better Interpersonal Relationships during Adolescence: A Life Skills Approach/Shivani Arora. 10. Stress Management: A Life Skills Approach/Sujata Lakhani. 11. Gender Issues in Mental Health/Toolika Wadhwa. 12. Exploring the Gender and Class Contours of Adolescent Identity/Vandana Siddharth Grover. 13. Lifting the Veil off a Dark Childhood Secret: A Study of Child Sexual Abuse/Vertika Chowdhary. 14. Development of Self and Identity through Schooling Processes: A Case Study of Mirambika/Vikas Beniwal. On a Concluding Note? Contributors.

The book is an anthology of fourteen research articles and perspective papers in the discipline of mental health. It aims to dispel the misconception that issues of mental health are clinical in nature and are only relevant to the discipline of psychology. The articles attempt to connect the practice of Mental Health to everyday life and not restrict Guidance, Counselling and Psychotherapy to clinical settings. A strong introduction and some conclusive ideas for educators have been woven in to this end. After reading the book, the reader will be able to construct a more expansive notion about what guidance and counseling are and understand how they naturally constitute the core of Education for Mental Health. The book re-defines guidance and counseling and concludes by presenting a framework to schools for organizing mental health services. It is hoped that the anthology will make informative and insightful reading for all those interested in children, education and society.