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With AskYourCounsellor, you can reach a professional counsellor at any time. AskYourCounsellor, is here to provide you with accurate,scientifically accepted and evidence –based guidance.
AskYourCounsellor,provides a safe, caring, and confidential environment and allows individuals to explore their feelings, beliefs and behaviours. Our team encourages its visitors to identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desire change.
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Family Concerns
Create Well-being For Your Family.
With the Ask Your Counsellor team, you can contact a professional counsellor at any time. Our team is here to provide you with validated and evidence-based information and guidance. Ask Your Counsellor, provides a safe, caring, and confidential environment and allows individuals to explore their feelings, beliefs and behaviours. Our team encourages our visitors to identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desire change. It is a personal opportunity to receive support and experience growth during challenging times in life. AskYourCounsellor will guide you and help you to deal in the best possible way with any difficulties that you might be facing.
Family problems can manifest in the healthiest of families, resulting in challenging, frustrating, and painful interactions among family members. From little irritations to buried resentments, from dramatic arguments to feelings of guilt, disappointment, and anger we did not even know we had, our families often bring up the most intense emotions we experience, for better or worse.
When family members do not get along, the tension can impact each family member’s mental and physical health, relationships, and even his or her capacity for routine tasks. Evidence of family problems arise through repeated family conflicts, dramatic behavioral shifts in children and adolescents, mood swings and depression.
Common family concerns and issues:
- Financial issues
- Substance abuse
- Grief
- Chronic illness.
- Behavioural issues, or educational concerns in children and adolescents.
- Separation, divorce, or blended family adjustments.
- Mental health concerns
AskYourCounsellor, helps families to identify the unbalances within their family system and helps families to communicate in a healthier way, to establish family values, to understand each other better, to gain insight into the issues and family dynamics, and to grow as a family.
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Individual Concerns
A Happier, Healthier You.
With the Ask Your Counsellor team, you can contact a professional counsellor at any time. Our team is here to provide you with validated and evidence-based information and guidance. Ask Your Counsellor, provides a safe, caring, and confidential environment and allows individuals to explore their feelings, beliefs and behaviours. Our team encourages our visitors to identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desire change. It is a personal opportunity to receive support and experience growth during challenging times in life. AskYourCounsellor will guide you and help you to deal in the best possible way with any difficulties that you might be facing.
We are here to support you during your beautiful, but some times complicated, life journey. We will be your first point of contact for any personal issues you might be facing, such as:
- Anger Management
- Difficulty with Adjustment and Coping with Stressors
- Anxiety / Stress
- Behavioral / Mood Changes
- Self-Esteem / Body Image
- Grief and Loss
- Relationship Conflicts
- Loneliness and Isolation
Try to keep a track on the early signs, such as:
- being easily distracted
- poor concentration
- worrying more
- finding it hard to make decisions
- feeling less interested in day-to-day activities
- low mood
- feeling overwhelmed by things
- tearfulness
- tiredness and lack of energy
- sleeping more or less
- talking less and avoiding social activities
- talking more or talking very fast, jumping between topics and ideas
- finding it difficult to control your emotions
- drinking more
- irritability and short temper
- aggression
Don’t waste, anymore, your valuable time in searching for information about your worries. Ask Your Counsellor, is here to provide you with the professional and evidence-based answers you need without doubting its validity.
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Child Behaviour & Parenting Concerns
Give Yourself the Best Parental Education.
With the Ask Your Counsellor team, you can contact a professional counsellor at any time. Our team is here to provide you with validated and evidence-based information and guidance. Ask Your Counsellor, provides a safe, caring, and confidential environment and allows individuals to explore their feelings, beliefs and behaviours. Our team encourages our visitors to identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desire change. It is a personal opportunity to receive support and experience growth during challenging times in life. AskYourCounsellor will guide you and help you to deal in the best possible way with any difficulties that you might be facing.
We will be your first point of contact for any child behaviour/parenting concerns you might be facing,such as:
Out-of-Character Behaviour
Out-of-character behaviour is usually short term; it subsides once the situation is resolved. There are many situations that occur in a child’s daily life that can cause this type of behaviour.
For example, the child might be:
- tired
- unwell
- stressed afraid
- frustrated
- anger
Challenging Behaviour
Disruptive behaviour is when a child is uncooperative and prevents themselves and/ or others from focusing on what they are doing. A disruptive child might also grab the educator’s attention, distracting them from the other children and the task at hand. Not all disruptive behaviour is of concern, but it should be addressed as part of your regular support to help children develop their social and emotional skills.
Learning Disabilities
One of the worst things that a learning disability can do to a child is to have a devastating effect on their self-esteem. Despite the efforts of parents and teachers toward a child’s academic success, the repeated disappointments and lack of progress for many children with learning disability can result in a condition called “learned helplessness.” A child’s learning disability may result in an emotional battering that impacts their everyday interactions with teachers and peers at school, with parents at home, and others in the community.
Parenting Styles
According to the American Psychological Association, parenting practices around the world share three major goals: ensuring children’s health and safety, preparing children for life as productive adults, and transmitting cultural values (APA, 2018). Needless to say, these objectives are ambitious. Being a successful parent is no small feat and whether children become competent, healthy, productive adults depends on a variety of environmental and biological factors. The influences on child outcomes are numerous, but a wealth of literature indicates parenting practices are an important part of the equation.
Child Anger Management
Anger is a negative affective state that may include altered physiological arousal and thoughts about harm or blame (Berkowitz, 1990). Many brilliant minds, such as Aristotle, Darwin and Freud to name a few have commented on the nature of anger and its place in human psychology. However, it is during the past two decades that considerable advances have been made in experimental anger research.
Ask Your Counsellor, will provide you with the knowledge on the following:
- Assessment for Diagnosis
- Symptoms & Causes
- Evidence-Based Treatment Approaches
- Knowledge on Communication Skills
- Parenting Skills
- Conflict Resolution Skills
- Anger Management Skills
Ask Your Counsellor, is here to provide you with the professional and evidence-based answers you need without doubting its validity. Don’t waste, anymore, your valuable time in searching for information about your worries.
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Expats and Intercultural Adaptation
Be Your Priority.
With the Ask Your Counsellor team, you can contact a professional counsellor at any time. Our team is here to provide you with validated and evidence-based information and guidance. Ask Your Counsellor, provides a safe, caring, and confidential environment and allows individuals to explore their feelings, beliefs and behaviours. Our team encourages our visitors to identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desire change. It is a personal opportunity to receive support and experience growth during challenging times in life. AskYourCounsellor will guide you and help you to deal in the best possible way with any difficulties that you might be facing.
In Ask Your Counsellor, team knows that intercultural awareness is important in order to adapt to a new culture in a smooth way.
Intercultural competence refers to the ability of individuals to work effectively and live normally in different cultural contexts, and this ability requires expatriate employees to adopt adaptive thinking patterns and behaviors in the host country. lntercultural competence is the ability to function effectively across cultures, to think and act appropriately, and to communicate and work with people from different cultural backgrounds – at home or abroad. The Ask Your Counsellor team, can help you to gain intercultural awareness by providing you help on how to understand both your own and other cultures, and particularly the similarities and differences between them (values, beliefs, or behaviour).
We will guide you and inform you on intercultural differences and to support you through your acculturation process. Acculturation is the process of learning and acquiring the requisite skills to successfully settle in a new cultural dimension (Sam & Berry, 2010). Ask Your Counsellor team, is here to help you and your family through the difficult , sometimes,psychological adjustment to a new culture. This psychological adjustment is described as acculturation, and is broadly defined as the set of cultural and psychological changes that follow the contact between two cultural groups and their members (Berry, 2005).
Acculturative stress is the psychological impact of adaptation to a new culture. For some people changing countries and cultures include some significant stressors that are likely to be pervasive, intense, and lifelong. Acculturative stress contributes to mental health problems such as, depression and anxiety and psychological distress is thought to potentially arise for expats when they are unable to successfully cope with acculturative stress and are exposed to social systems that “other,” marginalize, disempower, and exclude them (Crockett et al., 2007;Viruell-Fuentes, 2007).
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Family & Caregiving
Here For You.
With the Ask Your Counsellor team, you can contact a professional counsellor at any time. Our team is here to provide you with validated and evidence-based information and guidance. Ask Your Counsellor, provides a safe, caring, and confidential environment and allows individuals to explore their feelings, beliefs and behaviours. Our team encourages our visitors to identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desire change. It is a personal opportunity to receive support and experience growth during challenging times in life. AskYourCounsellor will guide you and help you to deal in the best possible way with any difficulties that you might be facing.
Across the world, there are an unprecedented number of older people. Taking the age of 65 as an arbitrary dividing line, in 1950 there were, according to United Nations statistics (United Nations, 2006), just under 131 million older people in the world, representing 5.2% of the total population; by 2005, there were estimated to be 477 million (7.3% of the total population), and by 2025 older people are projected to form 10.5% of the global population, with 839 million older people – a six-fold increase in 75 years.
Most older adults enjoy good mental health. However, it is anticipated that the number of older adults with mental and behavioral health problems will almost quadruple, from 4 million in 1970 to 15 million in 2030.Mental health disorders, including anxiety and depression, affect physical health and ability to function, especially in older adults.Some late-life problems that can result in depression and anxiety include coping with physical health problems, caring for a spouse with dementia or a physical disability, grieving the death of loved ones, and managing conflict with family members.
Addressing these problems and treating often overlooked mental health conditions results in decreased emotional suffering, improved physical health, lessened disability, and a better quality of life for older adults and their families.
Caregivers:
Caring for an older adult who needs help or supervision is in many cases associated with mental and physical health issues, especially if the care recipient has dementia, although positive consequences associated with caregiving have also been reported. Several theoretical models have shown the relevance of psychological variables for understanding variations in the stress process associated with caregiving and how interventions may benefit from psychological techniques and procedures.
Family caregivers may experience considerable stress and subsequent health problems, isolation, fatigue, and frustration, sometimes leading to a sense of helplessness and exhaustion (caregiver burnout) or mistreatment of the older person. Caregiving may also become a financial burden.
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