A Training Manual for Counsellors, ‘Psychosocial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic’ has been prepared in April 2021 by Rahbar – A Field Action Project of the School of Human Ecology (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai In collaboration with National Disaster Management Authority). Among other things, it talks about:
- Ethical perspectives
- Telecounseling skills
- Personal and professional development
- Psychosocial interventions
- Reducing emotional distress
- Containing anxiety
- Responding to low mood
- Regulating anger
- Assuaging guilt
- Working with grief
- Managing risk for suicide
- Mitigating stigma
- Nurturing narratives of resilience
