Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Atul Madaan ¹, J. Senthil Kumaran ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Applied Psychology, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Adolescent or school going age is vulnerable to changes in the surrounding and introjections of the authority time-to-time. The present study was conducted to find out relationship between values the student has introjected and the coping they have adopted to handle the academic and social problems faced by them. For this purpose, normative survey research design was utilized with the purposive sample of 150 students belonging to 11^th standard was taken from a secondary school located in Jalandhar. Values of the students were assessed using personal value scale (Varma & Pawar, 2013); and coping was assessed using brief COPE (Carver, 1997). These questionnaires were administered in small groups in school after obtaining permission from concerned administrative authority of the school and consent of the participating volunteers. The obtained data were analyzed using appropriate parametric statistics and the interpretations were made in light of how personal values influence coping among higher secondary students. The study did not reveal significant differences in personal values and coping among adolescents on the basis of their type of family except for love dimension of personal values and use of instrumental support dimension of coping. However, the study revealed logically significant relationships between dimensions of personal values and that of coping.

Keywords

Coping, Personal Values, Type of Family.

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Gagandeep Kaur ¹, J. Senthil Kumaran ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Applied Psychology, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Changing shades of life in the contemporary world gave way to idyllic as well as harmful life style in individuals. One of the modern worlds evils is drug abuse and intensified addiction. Governments all over the world dispatch constant efforts to reduce the drug trafficking by enacting strict laws and enforcing the same. But the corruption of human resource is still high due to drug addictions and the positive potentials of individuals are stunted. Opioid addiction is one such that is characterized by the inability to discontinue opiate abuse and it is a constellation of physiological, behavioral and cognitive phenomena with severe intensity Medical treatments are preferred in first place to detoxify an addicted individual. However, researchers indicated the effectiveness of psychotherapy after detoxification with various psychotherapeutic approaches in preventing the relapse. It has been proved that positive psychotherapy with a strength-based perspective is not only helping to reduce the drug dependence level but also to enhance the individual potentials. Deriving facts from the studies conducted so far, this conceptual paper aims at proposing a new "Value based psychotherapeutic intervention" with its rationale. This intervention utilizes positive psychotherapy by integrating three techniques viz., a) Religious chanting, b) Yoga exercises and c) Systematic counseling. The intervention is designed so that it enhances the cognitive, affective, behavioural and bodily strengths to recover from opioid addiction with minimal relapse conditions. Also, it is proposed that aim of this intervention is to help the OpiOid-Detoxified Clients (ODCs) progress into Optimal Functioning Individuals (OFIs) by making them Intervention-Responding Clients (IRCs) and if applicable, by addressing the needs of Intervention Non-Responding Clients (INRCs).

Keywords

Ipioid Deaddiction, Introduction.

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