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Submitted by PatientsEngage on 26 April 2020

Emotional Resilience for Persons with Disabilities and persons with chronic conditions with Clinical and Rehabilitation Psychologist Divya Parashar. This was in the context of the COVID pandemic but there are lessons in there for all times.

We talked about

  • What is emotional resilience
  • Anxieties faced by people with disabilities
  • What is psychological resilience
  • What makes people resilient
  • How to build psychological resilience
  • Effects of suspension of therapy due to covid
  • How to overcome difficulty to focus
  • How to support less confident people with disability
  • How do caregivers motivate patient to perform the activities required
  • How to live with covid for an extended period of time
  • How to keep emotionally resilient while dealing with people

The webinar recording includes an audio appearance of Vaidyanathan, a person with a spinal cord injury and founder of The Spinal Foundation and how he coped with a Covid-19 scare. Unfortunately he passed away during the pandemic

 

Link to the webinar recording below