Mental health plays a vital role in leading healthy and happy life in individuals. It refers to an overall psychological well-being, or an absence of a mental disorder. From the perspective of “positive psychology”, mental health may include an individual’s ability to enjoy life and create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience. Women experience various mental health issues due to digitalization, interpersonal relationship issues and failure in daily activities such as difficulty in problem solving and decision making. In this paper, the author has attempted to shed light on the various mental health issues found in women in current scenario. Life skills training can be effective to tackle these issues. Life skills refer to the abilities that help to promote mental health and well-being. It includes abilities like decision making, problem solving and interpersonal relationship skills etc. These are found to be effective in dealing with the difficult situations which may lead to mental illness. Life skills training particularly to deal with these issues would help women to promote mental health and balance in their life. Moreover author has also attempted to establish that life skills intervention program cultivate the necessary skills that help in maintenance of mental health in women. Development of these abilities would help women to adjust with the changes in environment occurring due to digitalization, establish positive relationships and show efficiency in problem solving and decision making.
Major social and emotional development takes place during adolescence which shapes the life of an individual. Social and emotional developments both intertwined and the adolescence is the base age for these developments. In adolescence, individuals undergo changes during these developments such as, how to interact with family, friends and peers. They learn and understand the concept of emotional regulation and emotional expressions which help them to tackle critical situations. Due to social and emotional development they learn to form and maintain a healthy interpersonal relationship and self-esteem. At the time of these developments some individuals may develop problems which may lead to the mental health issues. There are various risk factors involved such as, conflictual family environment, low socio-economic status and parental separation etc. which may lead to the mental health issues or problems like, depression, eating disorder and substance abuse and other psychological problems. Various psychological interventions have been reported which can be provided during social and emotional developmental process which would be helpful for individuals to deal with the issues and risks. Moreover, the author has attempted to figure out the changes which take place during social and emotional development in adolescence and what are the relevant risk factors involved in the developmental process. Author has also explored about the mental health issues and their intervention in adolescence during these developments.
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