New Delhi: There is no denying the fact that students are facing a tough time due to COVID-19. To address their anxieties, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has launched a new app to help students deal with mental trauma amid COVID-19. CBSE Dost For Life app for the psychosocial well-being of students is available on Google Play Store.
The app is meant for students from Classes IX to XII to help them maintain their psychosocial wellness. Earlier, the board was giving counselling through toll-free numbers across the country.
What are the features of the CBSE Dost app?Choose your own time slot and connect with an expert:
The students and parents can choose any of the two time slots: 9.30 am to 1.30 pm or 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm and connect through a Chatbox as per their convenience.
Counselling sessions: The new app will simultaneously cater to students and parents from CBSE-affiliated schools in different geographies across the world. The live counselling sessions will be conducted free of cost, thrice a week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday by trained counsellors/principals. This yea, there are 83 volunteers out of which 66 are in India and 17 in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Nepal, Oman, Kuwait, Japan, and the USA.
Information available on the app
- Suggestive Course guide after 10+2
- Tips on Mental Health & Well Being
- Corona Guide – (Daily Protocol, Learning from Home, Self-Care, FAQs) and Rap songs
- Audio-visual messages
CBSE has prepared educative material on social, emotional, and behavioural issues such as exam anxiety, internet addiction disorder, depression, specific learning disability, substance use disorder, aggression, and life skills to sensitise students and masses. This can be accessed on the website cbse.nic.in and YouTube channel of CBSE.
Besides, CBSE will run weekly Q&A columns in leading newspapers.
The board has also brought out a manual that discusses the interplay of school, family, and community for the psychosocial well-being of students at different developmental stages. It has dedicated chapters on dealing with the current pandemic and COVID-appropriate behaviour. The manual is available on cbse.nic.in.
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