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Ramesh Puri ¹, Parveen Chawla ¹, Saroj Mehta ¹, Dwarka Pershad ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Pediatrics, PGIMER, Chandigarh, IN

Abstract

Supplementary feeding programme (SFP) forms an important target oriented nutrition action programme in India, benefitting mainly pre-schoolers, school children, pregnant and lactating women. These are named differently depending on the beneficiaries, sponsoring agency, type of food and the way it is delivered. In principle they aim at providing additional food to the target group to fill an observed gap between their intake and requirements. The ultimate objective is to improve nutritional status and main, tain it. These programmes are viewed as part of the overall development and fit well into the Government of India's 20 point programme.

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Dwarka Pershad ¹, Neha Jain ², Parul Gupta ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychiatry, Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana, Ambala, Haryana
2 Department of Psychiatry, Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana, Ambala, Haryana, IN

Abstract

There was a felt need for developing easy, affordable, accessible and transparent method of non-pharmaceutical nature for academic, personality, adjustment and emotional problems arising out of modernization and taking a gigantic shape day by day causing wastage of manpower. Hundreds of universities and institutes were producing a force of large number of councillors to meet the challenges. The methods taught to these prospective counsellors were from Western books based on dynamic model, to promote self (a western-self). A newer behaviour modification technique based on 'we-self' (family- self) configured with narcissistic tendency of the parents was developed to match with our cultural heritage. It included rescheduling of a number of routine activities of the client by the therapist, to be carried out by the subject while parents assuming the role of co-therapist in the process. It required history taking of activity client had been performing, availability of parental time at home and constellation of family. In this process subject is allotted certain activities to be carried by him to discipline his wondering mind and parents interacts with subject with smiling face, without showing anger or anguish in non-critical and non- argumentative mode with subject as a co-therapist. This process, promotes the acceptance of each other, perpetuating family-self thus improvement with practice was assured to come. Empirically this method of treatment had been found better than any other conventional methods with acceptance by the authoritarian figure of the family.

Keywords

Behavior Modification, Family Integrative Technique, Family-Self.

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