Cognitive Behavior therapy and humanistic behavior therapy

Cognitive Behavior therapy and humanistic behavior therapy

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Prof. V Umamaheswari

Behaviour therapist - Audio Notes by Prof.V Umamaheswari

Psychotherapy - Audio Notes by Prof.V Umamaheswari

Psychotherapy - Audio Notes by Prof.V Umamaheswari

By Prof.V Umamaheswari

Stress and Psychosomatic Illness

     A Psychosomatic illness is not an imagined illness. It is an illness that is influenced by someone's experiences - particularly stressful experiences - or by his or her reactions to those experiences. That is, something about the person's behavior or way of life influenced the onset and progression of the disease. Most illness are partly psychosomatic in this sense.

     Prolonged stressful experience can damage the immune system and increase a person's vulnerability to a variety of disorders, ranging from minor infections to cancer. Emotions can also impair health in strange, round about ways: Many years ago a midwife delivered three female babies on Friday the 13th and announced that all three were hexed and would die before their 23rd birthday. The first two did die young. As the third woman approached her 23rd birthday, she checked into a hospital and informed the staff of her fears. The staff noted that she dealt with her anxiety by extreme hyperventilation that is deep breathing. Shortly before her birthday, she hyperventilated to death.

     How did this happen? Ordinarily, when people do not breathe voluntarily, they breathe reflexively, the reflex id triggered by carbon dioxide in the blood. By extreme hyperventilation this woman had exhaled so much carbon dioxide that she did not have enough left to trigger reflexive breathing. When she stopped breathing voluntarily, she stopped breathing altogether. This is a clear example of a self fulfilling prophecy. The fact that the woman believed the hex caused it to be fulfilled. This is also a clear example of the indirect influence of emotions on health. 

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The Role of the Autonomous Nervous System

 Any stimulus that arouses an emotion - such as hug, a fire-alarm or a slp on the face alters the activity of the autonomous nervous system, the section of the nervous system that controls the functioning of internal organs. The word autonomic means independent; biologists once believed that the autonomic nervous system operated independently of the brain and the spinal cord. Brain and spinal cord send messages to alter the activity of the autonomic nervous system, but we continue to use the term autonomic.

The autonomic nervous system consists of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous  systems.Two chains of neuron clusters just to the left and right of the spinal cord make up the sympathetic nervous system, which arouses the body for vigorous action. Sympathetic nervous system response increase your heart rate, breathing rate, production of sweat, and flow of epinephrine, thereby preparing you for intense activity.

The parasympathetic nervous system consists of neurons whose axons extend from the medulla and the lower part of the spinal cord to neuron clusters near the internal organs. The parasympathetic nervous system decreases the heart rate, promotes digestion, and in general supports nonemergency functions. Both the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems send axons to the heart, the digestive system, and the other organs.

Both systems are constantly active. The alteration or shifting balance between them helps keep the body of homeostasis, but one system can temporarily dominate the other. For example, a frightening situation may increase your heart rate and sweating and also promote bowel and bladder control.. Both sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems were responsible for those responses.

To conclude central nervous system plays an important role for emotional balance.Emotional Intelligence in social situations people need specific skills to judge other peoples emotions and intentions and the probable emotional outcomes of their own possible behaviors. People who misjudge others emotions can easily cause themselves in troubles. Many human facial expressions have similar meanings in cultures throughtout the world. Most studies of happiness rely on questionnaires and self-ratings. Happiness level appears to be fairly stable aspect of personality despite changes in people lives. It correlates with marriage and friendships, health, goals other than wealth, religious faith, and several aspects of personality.

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        Many psychologists speak of emotional intelligence, the ability to perceive, imagine, and understand emotions and to use that information in decision making.

For example, imagine that you are standing in line for lunch but you have left small gap between you and the next person. Someone else steps  into that line in front of you. You have to judge whether this person was being rude ore merely making an honest mistake by not realizing you were in line. Should you scream threats, calmly inform this person of the mistake or ignore it altogether?

 Emotional Intelligence has other aspects as well. Some people are simply more aware of their own mood swings rather than others are. Also, some people are better than others at managing their emotions, expressing them in appropriate circumstances and restraining them in others. For expressing anger is sometimes helpful and sometimes hurtful.

Originally, the term emotional arousal or excitement when we have strong tendency to approach or avoid something. For example, love includes a strong drive to be close to someone. Anger includes an urge to charge and attack. Fear and disgust are associated with escape tendencies. Although anger, fear, and happiness feel very different, we can express any one of them by screams and frenzied activity

Ordinarily, an emotional state elicits a tendency toward vigorous action, even if we suppress that tendency.Sometimes they feel to runaway from that particular situation. But he manages to restrain himself from acting upon these impulses.

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Prof.V Umamaheswari 

Head-Department of Social Work

 

Emotion, Decision making, and Emotional Intelligence

With a True Incident, 

        Emotions are experiences like anger,fear,happiness,sadness...

Could you explain those terms? 

Could you even explain how to measure emotions? Probably you could not.

         Emotions are hard to define except by showing examples, and the examples will not mean anything to someone who doesn't experience emotions. 

         Emotions  usually do not interfere decision making. In fact, the capacity to feel emotion may even be necessary for good decisions.

           

A true story which I read at Quora

A seventeen year boy, Android Developer shares his emotions like this ,

               My parents don't know that I sleep after 3.30a.m. (They always scold me for waking up too late). I know how to speak and write 6 languages. I know 5 programming languages. I am an intern at 3 different companies. I have made 10 - 15 lakhs INR selling apps. I was a naughty kid. I have a bank balance of over 26 lakhs INR. Haven't spent a dime on myself saving it for my three year old sister's future.(I love her more than anything in this world}. I hate aunties or any other relative who wants to know everything about my life. I love my parents a lot but haven't been able to express it. 

In this case what we understood? Can we conclude that parents are not understanding child?or they are not much attentive? follower? No care and love?

NO ...

Actually there are mistakes on the Parenting Perspective also.

1. Firstly, they must learn to understand and read their child's emotions.
2. Secondly , they must regularly follow their Children and take part in their child's emotions regularly. So the Parents' here have miserably failed in these aspects.

But , atleast they were concerned about why their Son wakes up late, but failed to figure out the reason. What an irony...

 Good decisions make people happy and evil causes unhappiness. People who have weak emotions will have trouble in making decisions.

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Head-Department of Social Work

Cope Up with Stress - Audio Notes - Prof.V Umamaheswari

In this video, we will learn about How to cope up with stress. 

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Reinforcement - Audio Notes - Prof. V Umamaheswari

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Behavior Therapy - Audio Notes - Prof.V Umamaheswari

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Social Groups - Audio Notes- Prof.V Umamaheswari.

A Video about Social Groups.

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Cases I've Handled - Case 4 - NACHRCOI

Case 4. Harassment from husband.

       Radha age 38, working in MNC got married and having 16year daughter too. Husband is doing some private business and very big money minded and used to torture her for money. She use to give all her salary to him and very less money she take for transport. He is not accepting her daughter to study in a good school too.  One day he drank and started torturing her for money. He started beating her daughter to get money from her. She gave almost all gold and other materials to him. Finally he asked to get 10 lakhs from home for business. Her parents complained to me. Then I called her for sittings. We are taking action against her husband.

 

   

Case Handled By:

  V. Umamaheswari

  Head – Department of Social Work

  National Anti-Crime and Human Rights Council of India

Cases I've Handled - Case 3 - NACHRCOI

Case 3: Harassment by superior in MNC Company.

       Mrs. Shilpa working in a MNC company as a developer, she is a single parent with her daughter. Through her friend her superior comes to know that she is alone in home. Started torturing her through phone what sap, Facebook and continuously use to come behind her to find out home.

 She gave some improper address to company. He was continuously asking address to her. She met me through her friend. I met company director and her superior too stating that I am from anticrime and human rights. I interviewed Shilpas superior. He is married one with two children and he tried to use her. Most of the time he tried to misuse her. I took statement from shilpa and submitted to the director too.

Company sacked him and now she is working with peace.

 

  Case Handled By:

  V.Umamaheswari

  Head – Department of Social Work

  National Anti-Crime and Human Rights Council of India

Cases I've Handled - Case 2 - NACHRCOI

Case 2: Divorce – mutual consent

One couple applied for divorce in a court. They went for family counselling before applying for it. Family counsellor refer this case to me as a human rights. Prathima studied MBA and working in MNC. Her husband is working in MNC as an accountant. He doesn’t want her to work. He was not fulfilling his basic needs also. She was suffering with hungry and no money in hand. She started working in MNC and timings of working time is shift based. He started beating her and locked her for three days. She escaped through balcony with the help of her neighbor and applied this case through her uncle. 

They applied for mutual consent and reasons were not mentioned. We went to the court for hearing. Sec 13B (2) according to this they proved about their marriage certificate and one year they were alone. 

She don’t want to give complaint against him because she need her marriage expenses and some money from him. We spoke to him and he also ready to go for mutual consent after we explained about his mistakes and punishment.

 

  Case Handled By:

  V.Umamaheswari

  Head – Department of Social Work

  National Anti-Crime and Human Rights Council of India

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Cases I've Handled - Case 1 - NACHRCOI

Case 1: Suicide Attempt by a married woman   

           Married woman named Sudha (Changed name of the person) attempted to suicide and her friend called me. Her friend took her to hospital and treatment has been given. I went to hospital to counsel her.  She was able to talk to me after two days of hospitalization. She showed her body with lots of wound. Her husband beated her harshly.

 Detail of this case: She is from Kerala and settled in Bangalore with her husband. He is working in Advertisement Company. Both of them it’s a second marriage. Her quality is to suspect her, not talking to her completely and always she felt loneliness. She planned to go to abroad for job. She met of her classmate and follow about abroad job. This become extra tension to him. She got abortion too. 

She depressed a lots. Day by day torture has been increased. Finally she does not want to live.

I consulted with her. She didn’t want to go to police station. She directly gave complaint under NACHRCOI. She doesn’t want to go to police station because she doesn’t have any support from family, parents. So I thought of giving family counselling. 

I had a sitting with her alone then her husband then both parents. I spoke to her husband about right of woman and if we are taking action for harassment what may be the punishment for him and his parents too. I gave sessions of couple training. 

Through various process I handled this case and now she is living with him without any problem. Weekly visit will be there with me till she recover from depression. Using lots of psychotherapy techniques too.

 

 

  Case Handled By: 

  V.Umamaheswari

  Head – Department of Social Work

    National Anti-Crime and Human Rights   Council of India

Happy Children - Happy Family

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Mental Health

Mental Health

                 Mental health is a state of balance between the individual and the surrounding world, a state of harmony between oneself and others, a co-existence between the realities of the self and that of other people and that of the environment.

Criteria  for Mental Health:- 

• Adequate contact with reality
• Control of thoughts and imagination
• Efficiency in work and play
•  Social Acceptance
• Positive self- concept
• A healthy emotional life  

Characteristics of a mentally healthy person:- 

•  Has an ability to make adjustments.
• Has a sense of personal worth,feels worthwhile and important.
•  Solves his problems largely by his own effort and makes his own decision.
•  Has sense of personal security and feels secure in a group, shows understanding of other people's problems and motives.
•  Has a sense of responsibility.
•  Can give and accept love.
• Lives in a world of reality rather than fantasy.
• Shows emotional maturity in his behaviour.
• Develops a capacity to tolerate frustration and disappointments in his daily life.
• Developed a philosophy of life that gives meaning and purpose to his daily activities.
• A variety of interests and generally lives a well-balanced life of work, rest and recreation.

 Mental health and wellness:-

• Getting professional health.
• Connecting with others.
• Staying positive.
• Getting physically active.
• Helping others.
• Getting enough sleep
• Developing coping skills

To conclude Mental health refers to our cognitive, behavioral and emotional well being-its all about how we think, feel, and behave. Mental health is connected to our daily life, relationships and even physical health.

Human Resourse Development Dimensions And its Approaches

 

NACHRCOI

National Anticrime and Human Rights Council of India.

V.Umamaheswari Head - Department of social work, Bangalore City College is a National level women cell secretary, State level President of Karnataka. The main aim of this organization is Crime free India. Mr.Diwash Lama is a founder and chairman from West Bengal controlling all over India and some cases of International too. As a social worker it is very easy for me to do various operations, awareness, training programs. No members and higher official of this organization will get any stipend or service charges. Everything is a service and free of cost. We are providing free legal aid to the public. We are working for human rights protection, child labor protection, police atrocities, crime investigation, corruption investigation, RTI, RTE, human trafficking, training on human rights etc. Feel free to contact us.

 www.nachrcoi.com

 Helpline numbers.7479044440/41/42/43

                                                 

V.Umamaheswari

Head-Department of Social Work

Bangalore City College

Child Right

According to international law, a child means every human being below the age of 18 years. This is a universally accepted definition of a child and comes from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

In India, marriage of a girl below the age of 18 years and a boy below 21 years is restrained under the child marriage Restraint Act 1929. Moreover, after ratifying the UNCRC in 1992, India changed its law on juvenile justice to ensure that every person below the age of 18 years, who is in need of care and protection, is entitled to receive it from the State. All children below 18 years need to be protected from abuse and exploitation.

Children need special attention, love, care and safety. Children are more vulnerable than adults to the conditions under which they live. They are more affected than any other age group by the actions of government and society. Most of the children are guided by adults. They need guidance of caretakers to make proper decisions. Basically they have their own interest and attitude towards their life. They need not to be forced by any others to do things.

All children under the age of 18 are entitled to the standards and rights guaranteed by the laws that govern our country and the international legal instruments we have accepted by ratifying them.

The Constitution of India guarantees all children certain rights, which have been specially included for them. These include:

•   Right to free and compulsory elementary education for all children in the 6-14 year age group(Article 21A)

• Right to be protected from any hazardous employment till the age of 14 years(Article 24)
• Right to be protected from being abused and forced by economic necessity to enter occupations unsuited to their age or strength (Article 39(e)).
• Right to equal opportunities and facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity and guaranteed protection of childhood and youth against exploitation and against moral and material abandonment(Article 39(f))
• Right to equality(Article 14)
• Right against discrimination(Article15)
• Right to personal liberty and due process of law(Article21)
• Right to be protected from being trafficked and forced into bonded labour(Article 23)
• Right of weaker section of the people to be protected from social injustice and all forms of exploitation(Article46)
• The State must make special provisions for women and children(Article 15(3))
• Protect interest of minorities (Article29)
• Promote educational interest of weaker section of people(Article 46)
• Raise the level of nutrition and standard of living of its people and improvement of public health(Article 47)

   V.Umamaheswari

Head – Department of Social Work

National Anti-Crime and Human Rights Council of India