Centre of Positive Emotional Health
Objective:
In any educational institution, students occupy a pivotal position and all activities revolve around them. Therefore, the overall institutional ambience must reflect planned efforts for the welfare of its main stakeholder. In this era of globalization young aspirants have to face multiple challenges and they are undergoing through lot of emotional imbalance.
The objectives of Centre for Positive Emotional Health -- To help students understand and identify the emotional disturbances and the ways to tackle such situations.
- To concentrate on maintaining healthy emotional stability amongst students and to provide learning/training opportunities in the areas of academic, career and personal/ social development and to prepare students to meet their future challenges.
- To provide guidance to the students in identifying their interests, strengths and planning appropriately to justify their professional needs.
- To cater emotional imbalance and disturbances among teaching and non teaching members of the institute and to help them come out of the situations.
The focusing areas will be:
- Unhealthy Negative Emotions
- Stress Handling
- Psychological Counseling
- Addictions
- Procrastination
- Exam Anxiety
- And many moreā¦
The scope of the centre includes:
- Institute level Awareness camp to identify emotional imbalances like depression, stress anxiety, etc.
- Sessions by expert team of psychiatrist for batch size of 25-30
- Need based one to one counseling and mentoring for critical cases.
- Forming teams of students interested in becoming mentors for their juniors.
- Conducting sessions for training the trainers.
Outcome/Benefits of this centre include, but aren't limited to:
- Emotional health awareness increases the chances for early intervention, which can result in a fast recovery.
- Reduction in anxiety.
- Improved moods.
- Clearer thinking.
- A greater sense of calm or inner peace.
- Increased self-esteem.
- Reduced risk of depression.
- Improvements in relationships.
Activities to be conducted round the year:
- Emotional Awareness camp for all the students/Faculty in campus
- Large group sessions by expert twice/thrice a year for general Positive emotional development
- Small group(20/25) sessions by expert every two months for handling cases of depression, Anxiety, Exam Fear, etc
- 1-2 hrs weekly availability of experts for one to one counseling (need based critical cases)
- Training the trainers/ Faculty session once in six months
- Creating/ Training student mentors once in six months
- Training faculty to handle Gen Z students
Report on activities under taken under positive emotional health
!The Following is the organizational structure for the centre:
![]() Chairperson |
Dr. Rashmi Shahu, Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering & Student Counselor |
![]() Mentor/Advisor |
Dr. Abhishek Somani, Prof & Head Psychiatry Department, IGMC, Nagpur |
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Dr. P.D. Pachpore |
![]() Incharge team of doctors |
Dr. Mosam Phirke, Consulting Psychiatrist,Manasparsh Wellness centre, Supported by Tata Trust |
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Dr. Priyadarshini Madavi, Consulting Psychiatrist |
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Ms Manisha Golchha Remedial Educator in the Learning Disability |
Member |
Dr. Gayatri Band, Assistant Professor, Department of Management Technology |
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Dr. Rujuta Deshpande |
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Prof. Akansha Deshpande, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities |
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Dr. Bharati Gidwani, Director Rejuvenate Stress Management Center |
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Leena Shadija |
For registration contact: 9607980538 / 9607980531 / 9923587842
Email: shahurb@rknec.edu