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GENDER BASED VIOLENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING

Source: Love Uganda Foundation

Gender-based violence impact the enormously on mental health of person. In this case, mental health counselling has significant role to eradicate gender based violence. Post-violence survivor possibly suffer with depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder. Accurate role of mental healthcare prevent the increasing number of GBV; to reduce negative thoughts. Countries having Gender Based violence prevention based on rigid public health model that do not carry mental health component, though GBV must require concepts, competencies and standards of mental health to interdicte the GBV. Inequality of gender, gender stereotypes & prejudice, difference of feminity and masculinity capabilities,  Upbringing in patriarchal society or mindset aggression, male ego are several elements increasing insensitivity and hideousness and intricate to control the GBV.

Source: International Centre for Research on women

 Listen to and invest believe in survivors because prepetrator is only responsible for actions. Teach in schools what is to be men and make them aware of their emotional side. Call for responses and services require mandate for solution, Understand consent is extremely vital as men hard time to evaluate NO, learn the signs of abuse and how can we help and talk extensively and exclusively of gender based violence. In 2013 UNFPA and UN Women initiated Joint Global Programme on Essential Services giving to people who suffering with Gender based violence; providing access to services and quality of these particularly focus on health, Justice and social science ( such as psycho – counseling, helplines and safe house) and programmes on sexual & reproduction health because health services should be first place that survivors of abuse seek assistance.

Source: OSCE

 1) Mental health professionals well aware of how to help and support the survivors,  what are their emotional & psychological requirements in case of physical,verbal, sexual violences, anxiety and depression mental health professional (MHP) capable to encounter accordingly.

 2) Counselling is a faithful forum where anyone can be vulnerable, survivors can find easy to open up & release themselves emotionally in front of mental health Counselors. MHP can maintain solidarity to survivors, value their experience, understand their needs, ensure faith of confidentiality that no word will go out in fact each word will taken into consideration.

 3) In gender-based violence, survivor evidently confront the issue of acceptance and believing. Professionals competent enough to provide acceptance and build confidence in them

 4) Survivors needs emotional Support as  Counselors understand it  entrust  emotional assistance.5) Mental health counselling significantly help survivors to uplift their lives by feeling confident that help them to know about themselves and find sustainability on financial level. For it, Health professionals must support the idea of high level of self awareness for themselves for more influencial results.

5) Mental health counselling significantly help survivors to uplift their lives by feeling confident that help them to know about themselves and find sustainability on financial level. For it, Health professionals must support the idea of high level of self awareness for themselves for more influencial results.

6) Different Mental health counselling Programs and survey research increase the  efficiency and credibility of Counselling for survivors. Research determine the effectiveness of orientation of work,  conclude the conceptual results that enhance the relevancy and realiability of survey.

 7) Mental health professionals helps survivors to overcome of feeling of unwantedness just by listening and understanding their outputs, that give them  sufficient emotional support.

 8) Mental health counselling must provide 24×7 through E – Governance and from NGOs online portals. Government initiatives become extreme important regarding gender Based violence, their women empowerment Policies must confirm the positive results on society that ultimately helps women socially.

 9) Determining mental health counseling in rural areas is crucial because women especially in marginalized community found far more difficult to come out and express their needs because social structure & norms. Mostly do not aware of what to do in such situations. At this time, mental health counselors untapped them & make them aware of their legal, social and political rights; moreover their human rights.

 10) Gender based violence survivor do not know what to do now it at first, self doubt engraved in them strongly. Mental health professional advisory assistance support them to better their condition by doing counselling sessions and penetrate positivity.

 11) By community Awareness program, self employment, skill development program, self help group , support health care & group insurance support evidently proved to be helpful to the survivors.

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace & security everywhere – John.F.kerry

GENDER BASED VIOLENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING

Source: Love Uganda Foundation

Gender-based violence impact the enormously on mental health of person. In this case, mental health counselling has significant role to eradicate gender based violence. Post-violence survivor possibly suffer with depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder. Accurate role of mental healthcare prevent the increasing number of GBV; to reduce negative thoughts. Countries having Gender Based violence prevention based on rigid public health model that do not carry mental health component, though GBV must require concepts, competencies and standards of mental health to interdicte the GBV. Inequality of gender, gender stereotypes & prejudice, difference of feminity and masculinity capabilities,  Upbringing in patriarchal society or mindset aggression, male ego are several elements increasing insensitivity and hideousness and intricate to control the GBV.

Source: International Centre for Research on women

 Listen to and invest believe in survivors because prepetrator is only responsible for actions. Teach in schools what is to be men and make them aware of their emotional side. Call for responses and services require mandate for solution, Understand consent is extremely vital as men hard time to evaluate NO, learn the signs of abuse and how can we help and talk extensively and exclusively of gender based violence. In 2013 UNFPA and UN Women initiated Joint Global Programme on Essential Services giving to people who suffering with Gender based violence; providing access to services and quality of these particularly focus on health, Justice and social science ( such as psycho – counseling, helplines and safe house) and programmes on sexual & reproduction health because health services should be first place that survivors of abuse seek assistance.

Source: OSCE

 1) Mental health professionals well aware of how to help and support the survivors,  what are their emotional & psychological requirements in case of physical,verbal, sexual violences, anxiety and depression mental health professional (MHP) capable to encounter accordingly.

 2) Counselling is a faithful forum where anyone can be vulnerable, survivors can find easy to open up & release themselves emotionally in front of mental health Counselors. MHP can maintain solidarity to survivors, value their experience, understand their needs, ensure faith of confidentiality that no word will go out in fact each word will taken into consideration.

 3) In gender-based violence, survivor evidently confront the issue of acceptance and believing. Professionals competent enough to provide acceptance and build confidence in them

 4) Survivors needs emotional Support as  Counselors understand it  entrust  emotional assistance.5) Mental health counselling significantly help survivors to uplift their lives by feeling confident that help them to know about themselves and find sustainability on financial level. For it, Health professionals must support the idea of high level of self awareness for themselves for more influencial results.

5) Mental health counselling significantly help survivors to uplift their lives by feeling confident that help them to know about themselves and find sustainability on financial level. For it, Health professionals must support the idea of high level of self awareness for themselves for more influencial results.

6) Different Mental health counselling Programs and survey research increase the  efficiency and credibility of Counselling for survivors. Research determine the effectiveness of orientation of work,  conclude the conceptual results that enhance the relevancy and realiability of survey.

 7) Mental health professionals helps survivors to overcome of feeling of unwantedness just by listening and understanding their outputs, that give them  sufficient emotional support.

 8) Mental health counselling must provide 24×7 through E – Governance and from NGOs online portals. Government initiatives become extreme important regarding gender Based violence, their women empowerment Policies must confirm the positive results on society that ultimately helps women socially.

 9) Determining mental health counseling in rural areas is crucial because women especially in marginalized community found far more difficult to come out and express their needs because social structure & norms. Mostly do not aware of what to do in such situations. At this time, mental health counselors untapped them & make them aware of their legal, social and political rights; moreover their human rights.

 10) Gender based violence survivor do not know what to do now it at first, self doubt engraved in them strongly. Mental health professional advisory assistance support them to better their condition by doing counselling sessions and penetrate positivity.

 11) By community Awareness program, self employment, skill development program, self help group , support health care & group insurance support evidently proved to be helpful to the survivors.

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace & security everywhere – John.F.kerry

Ismat Chughtai: A Voice with many Tunes

Credit: The Print

Ismat Chughtai was most profilic Urdu writer, novelist and filmmaker. She Published Short stories, novels, sketches, plays, radio plays. She wrote extensively on female sexuality, femininity, middle class morality and class conflict. She was born on August 21, 1911 in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh. Ismat Chughtai was born on August 21, 1915, in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh. Her father, Mirza Qasim Beg Chughtai, was a high-ranking government official. She was the youngest of nine siblings, all her sisters had been married until she gained awareness, thus, in her childhood, she only had the company of her brothers, and she continuously challenged their supremacy. Whether it was playing street football and climbing trees, she did everything that girls were forbidden to do at that time.

She studied up to the fourth standard in Agra, and till the eighth standard in Aligarh, but her parents were not in favor of her higher education, instead, they wanted to train her to become a decent housewife. But Ismat wanted to get further educated at any cost, she threatened to run away from home and become a Christian and enter into a missionary school if her education was not continued. Eventually, her father had to kneel in front of her stubbornness and she went to Aligarh and got admission in the tenth standard. Chughtai completed her Bachelor of Arts from Lucknow’s Isabella Thoburn college 1939 where she studied English, Polity and Economics and a teacher training course from Aligarh Muslim University in 1939, In 1941 Chughtai secured a job as a superintendent of Municipal Girls School, Mumbai.

Author’s Writing Guise

Her bold protagonists stood out from the ordinary, her outspoken approach jolted regressive minds & her rebellion themes raised many eyebrows. She is a Icon of women’s empowerment at the same time she was a women who understood the complexities of women’s mind, their surrounding and also their desires all of her writing reflected these complexities in lengths powerful voice of 20th century in Urdu literature, fearlessly talked by feminine sexuality through her powerful writing.

In her writing, we found the great regard to human psychology. She has raised issue of equality between men and women which did not suitable for patriarchal society. Ismat emphasizes on the point that women must treat as human not merely an object of copulation, she has her own physical & emotional needs that needs to be fulfilled and understood. Her writing was realistic with pierce understanding of human life that   relentlessly was main component of her artistic consciousness. Through the characters, she depicted the demons of society and tranformed them into joy and gratitude.

Ismat’s Exalted Fabrication of Work

Chughtai most prominent work was Lihaaf that explored the perspective of young girl under the theme of homosexuality. On the contrary, she did not want known by Lihaaf as she mentioned in her memoir, A life in words, Chughtai wrote: I am still labelled as the writer of Lihaaf. The story brought me so much notoriety that I got sick of life and whatever I wrote afterwards got crushed under it’s weights.

Kalyan, Ek Baat, Choten, Do haath, Badan ki khushboo, Amarbel and Aadhi Aurat Aadha khwaab among others. She constantly wrote about women related issues and their oppression they encounter. Her novel Tedhi Lakeer is one of the famous work in Urdu literature; it is  Magnus Opus position for her that ensured commentary on the state of the country pre – Independence. Ziddi, saudai, Ajeeb Aadmi were others novels of her. For Garm Hawa the film based on impact of partition she earned filmfare award for best story(that shared with kaifi azmi).

For her remarkable literary services, Ismat received many significant awards and prizes from government and non-government organizations. In 1975, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. The Madhya Pradesh government awarded her the Iqbal Samman in 1999, the Ghalib Award and the Filmfare Award. On October 24, 1991, she died in physical form but very much alive forever through her work.

Credit : womenweb.in