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Promoting Psychosocial Measures Against Covid-19 by Alexandrox: 8:08am On Nov 16, 2020
The pandemic of Covid-19 has stricken humanity. It is considered the biggest and the most challenging viral infection the world has ever had.
The efforts to curb the pandemic infection so far has been focussing on educational aspect and creating awareness in society. This has become the prevalent approach adopted since the beginning of the first infection case and that it has been carried out with the noble intention of getting peoples' cooperation and commitment in managing the infection.
However, for the time being, the preventive measures have been to adopt the most basic approach ever known to human beings and operating at the core of educational point of view. This is what we understand as a psychosocial and behavioural perspective.
What is psychosocial and why do we adopt such an approach in dealing with the pandemic? The answer is simply that it is the closest kind of approach to human nature. In defining the nature of psychosocial construct, it has been conceptualised as anything that relates to the socio-psychological aspects or factors of human life that have some influence to how humans think and behave.
To understand this approach further, we try to relate ourselves with what we have been practising nowadays by socially and physically distancing ourselves from the crowds, always washing our hands and cover our mouths when coughing. These are examples of preventive behavioural consequences that become the basis of the psychosocial perspective.
In other words, we are actually capable of shielding and protecting ourselves from getting the virus when we train our thoughts and reasoning capacities to behaviourally contain the infection. Thus, for this purpose, how do we train our thoughts and reasoning faculty to be capable of getting rid of the virus, or how can our thoughts and behaviour make us so vulnerable to be infected?
It is about how humans can use their faculty of reasoning and safety behaviour in managing the illness and containing the infection, because mental health is believed to be the next pandemic in relation to Covid-19.
Re: Promoting Psychosocial Measures Against Covid-19 by nnewa: 12:55pm On Nov 16, 2020
While I agree with the above postulation I will like to add that we have to look on ways of preventing possible Depression as a post covid complication.

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