A career counselor could be a helping hand, volunteer, guide and therapist, who will provide career information, career development tips, can interpret aptitude and abilities of the person. A wide variety of areas are there before a person while deciding on a career.  He might not be able to get or collect information on each and every area. That’ when counseling plays an important part. Counseling helps in assessing one’s ability, interests, skills, need and desires and provides them valuable information on the areas and according to their need.

In career counseling session, clinical psychologists use certain psychological assessment tests, IQ test and aptitude test to determine the interest, kind of personality and skills of a child. There are some common topics that a counselor may discuss during career counseling session can be:

• Skills and talent required for a career
• Potential earnings of various careers
• Working style of the individual.
• Educational requirement of the careers. How much efforts one has to put while going for a certain path.

The therapist or clinical psychologist helps identify resources, financial aid resources and ways to manage stress.

Do they wash and clean their hands frequently?

Do they keep on checking their things?

If people in your family, friends and surroundings who have these kind of characterstics, they must be suffering from OCD. OCD (Obsessive-compulsive disorder) is a mental health issue charactersized by repetitive and compulsive physical and mental actions. Like keeping hands clean by washing again and again, keeping utensils in a particular manner, checking the rooms, taps and other things continuously and fear of getting contamination. According to a report of World Health Organization (WHO), OCD is the fourth most common mental health issue.

There can be many types of OCD but some common forms are:

Checking:  As the name indicates, checking is associated with obsession of preventing damage or any harm. The person with OCD keep on checking the doors, windows, knobs, locks, past memories, taps.

Contamination: Contamination is fear of getting dirty, thus people who are obsessed with avoiding the contact with public toilets, hospitals, crowd, money, clothes and keep on washing hands again and again.

Hoarding: Hoarding is the possessiveness or obsession of keeping useless and worn out things.

Rumination: it involves the deep thinking on intrusive thoughts. They focus on what is not real. Like what will happen after death and how is the heaven and hell look like. All these are the philosophical and unrealistic thoughts that occur in the person’ mind. This makes them aloof and solitary in nature.

Intrusive Thoughts: These are the thoughts which make a person violent and distress. The person gets obsessed of killing self or loved ones, and superstitions.

Symmetry: It means to keep the things in order. Person is obsessed of keeping utensils, books, shoes, and certain things in a particular manner to avoid any discomfort.

The causes of OCD can be genetic, neurological, biological, cognitive and environmental. The disorder is not a condition that can be resolved by its own. Thus, if we see any such symptoms in our loved ones, we should take them to the specialist and provide them the best therapy required as early as possible.

What is Abacus?

Abacus is a counting frame constructed on bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires. The device is used to do addition, subtraction, multiplication, division etc. Learning abacus at an early age has some benefits that will help in the overall development of the child apart from learning maths only.

Benefits of Abacus:

1. Fasten calculations : The best advantage of learning abacus is that it helps in fastening calculations. Child can do calculations at an ease.
2. Stress Buster: Abacus helps in removing stress from the child. Its practice reduces anxiety level.
3. Simulates Sensory organs: As abacus device involves working of hands, fingers and eyes in coordination , it helps in simulating brain and its parts; thus increases brain efficiency.
4. Boost Memory Power: Abacus helps in enhancing memory retention as one has to remember how many beads he has counted earlier during the calculation.
5. Concentration level Increases: As child has to be vigilant which beads he has counted and which beads have to be count, thus abacus helps in improving the concentration power of the child.

These are only some of the benefits a child can get by learning Abacus. If you are stressed that your child is not good at maths, do not worry; enroll him/her in the abacus classes for fun and entertaining learning method of maths.

This kind of playing is inducing irritation, anger and fierceness in them.  They already have the pressure of studies, an above this they have to face pressure of doing better than others.

The difference between the child of early age and nowadays is that parents didn’t imposed objectives goals on them. They were free to do what they want and their way according to abilities. But today’s child is forced to enter that field in which all other are going. Parent’s try to mold them in a way that is not meant for them. Because of this “cultural” misunderstanding, children often feel they are not understood, and parents feel frustrated as their child acts out. If this “cultural divide” deepens, the quality of the relationship between parents and children can deteriorate, creating a lack of closeness among family members.

Who has inspired the children to do this? Somewhere, parent and their social pressure is compelling them. It is necessary to give proper direction to the juvenile at this point, so that the future will appear self sufficient. Its parent‘s duty to understand their child need, wants and interests. There are some plans and courses which help parent to know about their child’s abilities. It will enable them to counsel so that children can blossom, laugh and be successful.

What basically stress is? Stress is psychological, physiological and behavioral response of a person when they lack balance between the line of need and achieve. It is that state of mind that affects a person’s thinking ability, mental peace, growth, development, working ability and it is referred to silent killer as it can also cause heart attack, blood pressure issues, chest pain, weight gain, hair loss and many more.

That’s why it is very crucial to manage the level of stress before it becomes untreatable or lethal for anyone. There can be many techniques which one can follow to bust their stress.

First of all, a person should be aware of the sources of stress known as Stressors. Root cause of the problem must be known to us, only then we can cure it. Sources can be any of our habit, attitude, workplace, relationships etc.

One should understand that we can’t control each and every situation that comes to us. So the event that is unfavorable to us, we should accept it positively. Positive thinking will not change the situation but it can change our perception towards it. Anything that happens, happens for good is the best positive phrase everyone should remember.

Communicate: Communicate with self and with others is also one of the stress busters. Half of the people are stressed because they are not able to express their views, ideas and opinions. When we express ourselves to others, we feel relaxed. Getting other’s point of view will help in coping with changed situation.

Doing exercise daily can also reduce the level of stress as it is effective as antidepressants. Walking is also a good exercise to improve or maintain healthy mind and body.

Balanced and healthy diet that is full of nutrients and minerals help in reducing stress as lot of energy is waste when a person is suffering from stress issues.

Deep breathing, meditation, yoga and music therapy are some practices that can help in alleviating stress.

Sleep of 6 to 8 hours is vital for every individual. Don’t suppress sleeping hours due to work and relationships as this increases the stress level and affects one’s working ability.

Cut the usage of alcohol, drugs and other medications to reduce stress.

Things that are organized and maintained are better than unorganized one. So, try to manage the things in time. Time management is crucial for every one as time stops for none and when it is gone, it is gone. That’s why, there will be no sense of crying on past time, give your career, relationship, business a new start.

Avoid contact with people who are depressing and negative in nature. Try to play with kids and pets.

These can be some of the measures; by following a person can reduce the stress level. But if symptoms persist, one should consult an expert.