Open AccessCOVID-19: THE UNPRECEDENTED PHENOMENON OF TWENTY FIRST CENTURY UNBELIEVABLE BUT REALITY
Author(s) -
B. S. Parimal,
Kanupriya Gupta
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
towards excellence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0974-035X
DOI - 10.37867/te120217
Subject(s) - mental health , anxiety , psychological intervention , pandemic , psychology , existentialism , psychotherapist , coping (psychology) , promotion (chess) , medicine , clinical psychology , psychiatry , covid-19 , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , political science , pathology , politics , law
During COVID-19 Pandemic followed by locked down period, Mental health has emerged as one of the essential componential thrust area to be considered at individual level, community level, National level and International level. To improve mental health in the present scenario, promotion of prevention with coping up strategy is essential for better mental health functioning and Psychological well-being. This review introduces an overview and discusses the conceptual frameworks of Existential Counseling therapy to illustrate a direct relationship between the anxiety of the general and affected populations due to COVID-19 and their ability to maintain optimal mental health functioning in the face of prolonged quarantine period. Based on literatures to date, understanding of Existential psychology as a preventive counseling therapy for mental health with a macroscopic perspective might help to practice positive mental health promotion and anxiety prevention. This study aims to characterize Existential Counseling as an appropriate preventive intervention and therapy that can feasibly be delivered to aid in the alleviation of symptoms of anxiety caused due to COVID-19 Pandemic.A narrative review was conducted given the wide range of relevant interventions with sufficient promising evidence to understand the conceptual framework ofExistential Counseling as preventivepsychotherapy in the present crisis of COVID-19 Pandemic. Interventions provided for optimal Mental Health functioning during the COVID-19 Pandemic have an important role to play in promoting mental health, preventing the onset, and protecting those with Anxiety symptoms. The importance of Existential Counseling as a preventive Psychotherapybeing highlighted in the present study is the need of hour in present scenario that lays the foundation for further research.