SLSA seeks assistance of Psychology students for flood affected people

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 14: Under NALSA Scheme for Legal Services to Disaster Victims, State Legal Services Authority has approached the Vice-Chancellors of University of Jammu and University of Kashmir through Secretary High Court Legal Services Committee seeking the help and assistance of students of Psychology.
On the directions of Justice Virender Singh, Executive Chairman, SLSA, the Vice-Chancellors have been requested to depute good number of promising students, preferably of Psychology, to go to the places where victims of disaster are made to stay temporarily and extend their positive help and co-operation by giving them appropriate counselling at this critical juncture.
This is being done so that affected people could show resilience and cope up with the unwarranted situation that has arisen due to recent floods and making them capable to relax and release their mental stress and come out of the post traumatic stress disorders.
Migrants of border areas, who have been made to leave their home and hearth, have been brought under the purview of manmade disaster because of cross-border firing by the neighbouring country and are required to be taken care of on similar lines as victims of natural disaster, as is spelled out in the NALSA Scheme for Disaster Victims.
The students will work in co-ordination with the Psychiatrists of GMC, Jammu, SKIMS and the Core Groups headed by Judicial Officers at district and tehsil level constituted by the J&K SLSA.
Directors of Health Services have also been requested to depute Psychiatrists on top priority to go to the places where affected people of disaster (both natural and manmade) are made to stay presently for appropriate counselling in order to bring them out of mental stress and psychic disorders.
Side by side, students of Psychology of Jammu and Kashmir provinces will get an opportunity to work in co-ordination with respective Psychiatrists (Consultant Doctors) of Department of Psychiatry at Jammu as well as Srinagar.

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