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What is Unemployment? Unemployment is the state where a person has no income source for living. Humans need money for survival and to meet their basic needs. So, as the Bible says in Genesis; humans have to work hard and earn their own bread and livelihood.
But today a different scenario has arisen where many people are not able to earn their livelihood; they are jobless i.e. people are unemployed due to various reasons. In recent times due to the global economic recession, many people around the world lost their jobs and found themselves and their lives in a hopeless situation.
The state of unemployment is seriously a situation of crisis for all the people; who are facing this situation especially when the family depends on that particular person for survival.
The effects of unemployment on a person
Mainly when a person is going through unemployment crisis will be depressed. Many at times we read in newspapers many people can- not deal with this situation of hopelessness; and they commit suicide, and also sometimes killing the whole family. Loss of job or unemployment is a situational crisis.
Depression:
Depression –a painful experience – a feeling of hopelessness. The word depression is very familiar to everyone but to understand it in a better way we need to know the symptoms of depression on human lives.
Motivation:
Apathy, a person loses energy and interest. Things seem pointless and future hopeless.
Emotional:
The capacity for positive emotions is reduced, and with moderate to severe depression people lose the capacity to enjoy pleasure. Depressed people may talk of feeling empty. However, negative feelings can increase and there can be experiences of resentment, anxiety, shame, envy and guilt.
Cognitive:
Cognitive contents –the focus of thoughts and ruminations- become negative with negative ideas about self, the world and the future.
Behavioural:
Depressed people often forestall conducting behaviours which have been enjoyable inside the beyond.
They’ll withdraw from social activities; forestall going out or meeting with pals, or in search of assist from others. Some depressed humans, alternatively, become greater demanding and adhere to others –determined for reassurance.
Biological:
Depressed people normally experience problems in dozing which includes waking up too early or sound asleep too gently. They’ll lose their urge for food and interest in intercourse.
A person who is jobless or unemployed would be going through such a situation as mentioned above.
Now, in order to help people who in crisis we need to understand what are the needs of people in a crisis situation. According to Aaron Lazare and his associates on the basis of a conducted survey variety of types of counselees who need crisis intervention work.
As pastoral counsellors, we can follow the ABCD model of crisis counselling-
- A. Achieving trust and caring relationship through empathetic responses, asking the person to tell you about the crisis and how that person feels,-making the person know of the willingness to work together on that issue, affirming the person whenever possible and see the person as having the ability to cope.
- B. Boil down the trouble to its principal components. Help the character to apprehend the crisis and inspire the man or woman to consider feasible solutions, helping them to examine each approach whether or not it’s miles viable or what’s going to likely occur. If additionally talk the people assets-personal, family, pals and so on. Affirming the character’s electricity through appreciating even the smallest effort this is made in coping.
- C. Challenge the person to take a constructive action plan. Encourage to plan how to approach the problem, identify the realistic and achievable goals with a commitment to implant the plan, and assure your help whenever needed. Using religious resources whenever necessary.
- D. Develop an ongoing growth action plan. After the crisis diminishes, encourage the person to reflect on and learn from the experience and to reflect a crisis in the context of his/her faith and thus grows spiritually.