Artificial Intelligence and Communication Technologies
E-Counseling to Help Maintain Good Mental Health in Organizations
Authors: Aftab Mansoori, Suraj Pillai, Leena Ladge and Ankush Tever
Publishing Date: 08-10-2022
ISBN: 978-81-955020-5-9
Abstract
Counselling is not common in India even though it helps us in various ways. The COVID-19 pandemic itself has created a lot of problems related to mental health. Bad mental health severely affects society. Even then, hardly very few people go for counselling. There are various reasons why people don’t go for counselling. Some people believe in myths regarding counselling while most people don’t even know what exactly counselling is. Therefore, it was necessary to find a way to let people know about counselling as well as allow them to go for counselling. Our web application is designed so as to provide solutions to these problems. The system proposed in this paper is a web application designed to help the overwhelmed, burned out, unhappy or anxious students or employees of an organization. The main objective of the web application is to help the user in maintaining good mental health. The users will be having access to various features. Users can set up appointments with the organization’s counsellor. Technology such as WebRTC is used for video conferencing so that the user can connect with the counsellor in their own space and anytime they want. Users will have to answer some questions as part of the survey which will determine how much the user is in need of counselling. The ‘quotes’ section will help inspire the users with some inspirational quotes from famous personalities. The blogs section of the web application will help impart knowledge about e-therapy and its advantages to the users. Users who are not familiar with e-therapy can get introduced to it by watching the informative videos provided in the videos section. The base of the application is MERN stack because of which we got to explore many web-based technologies efficiently.
Keywords
Mental health, Web application, E-therapy, React, MongoDB, Counselling, E-counseling.
Cite as
Aftab Mansoori, Suraj Pillai, Leena Ladge and Ankush Tever, "E-Counseling to Help Maintain Good Mental Health in Organizations", In: Saroj Hiranwal and Garima Mathur (eds), Artificial Intelligence and Communication Technologies, SCRS, India, 2022, pp. 479-492. https://doi.org/10.52458/978-81-955020-5-9-46