INNOVATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING

INNOVATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING. MEGHA ARORA STUDENT ID:@00626225.

INTRODUCTION. DEPRESSION IN HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS PROBLEM DEFINITION: The sudden arrival of the global pandemic and following that the arrival of nationwide lockdown has forced universities to shut down and thereby disturbing the entire education system of the students creating a lot difficulties and new challenges in their way. The completely new way of teaching and learning has thus led to a number of problems in the life of the students. Increased cases of disturbed mental health are one of them. Depression is a common occurrence in the students of higher education..

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:. Wellness instead of stress. Hand turns a dice and changes the word ″stress″ to ″wellness″..

MAJOR CAUSES BEHIND THE PROBLEM:. 1.Sudden Change in Education System and Learning Process The change in education system and learning process has also changed completely making it difficult for the students to handle the situations and manage accordingly. Due to the inability of coping up with the new way of learning, students feel stressed and face depression. 2. Increased negativity due to Covid The second major reason that drives students in such a state which tense them and depresses them is the rising negativity around them due to the corona virus. It is not only about the change in education system of the students but also other personal reasons that cause stressed environment around them and brings on negativity all around..

MAJOR CAUSES BEHIND THE PROBLEM:. 3. Loneliness faced by international students Furthermore , a survey conducted recently stated in the results that about 24% of the people of UK felt loneliness during covid-19 and especially the ones who lost their jobs. The respondents were majorly young people and students and they feel depressed out of feeling loneliness during this time. (Mental Health Foundation, 2020) This result has therefore proved that loss of jobs is one factor which causes mental health issue and loneliness as well among students. Also, there are students who feel loneliness due to covid rules and regulations; therefore, suffering from mental issues. 4.Loss in employment As I have stated above, due to economic crisis because of Covid-19 has posed various threats to the university students which led to rise in depression cases. Moreover, the largest rise in unemployment cases was observed in the age group of 15-24. The loss of employment among students is also therefore one of the reasons that cause them mental health issues. (Bugarin, 2020).

COPING STRATEGIES IN MARKET. Emotion-focused and problem-focused coping skills.

COPING STRATEGIES IN MARKET. Tele Therapy Tele- therapy is basically counseling or the therapy session conducted over call or an online meeting . Giving tele - therapy sessions to the students can help them in self- control and relax further eliminating stress and depression from them. Recent Development of Reading Minds by the US Researchers US Scientists have recently made a development in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to read the minds of the people and convert their thoughts into wordings (text) by its decoding. (New AI System Can Read Your Mind and Thoughts, and Convert Them to Sentences, 2021) This excellent discovery can help the counselors to read the minds of the students and accordingly creating favorable conditions for the students and thereby treating the students for their mental health issues. Remote Employment Furthermore, government should implement techniques and strategies to create remote employment for the students in order to recover their financial losses and free them from stress and depression. This step will eventually help a number of people as researches have revealed that unemployment number during covid have exceeded the historic marks undoubtedly. The researches have revealed that around 40 million is the current unemployment ratio due to covid which is higher than the one in Great Depression (historical event of global recession). (Mathieu Despard , 2021).

EVIDENCE OF THE PROBLEM. Pandemic has led to increased stress , loneliness , anxiety and depression among university students. People aged 18–24 reported worse mental health and wellbeing during the 2020 UK lockdown. Nearly three quarters (73%) of students said that their mental health declined during the lockdown ..

EVIDENCE OF THE PROBLEM (Cont.). In France a survey was conducted , according to which prevalence rates for mental health outcomes among university students were as follows : Suicidal Thoughts.11.4% Severe Distress:22.4% High level of perceived Stress:24.7% Severe Depression:16.1% High level of Anxiety:27.5%.

COMMON PRACTICES TO COPE UP WITH MENTAL HEALTH. Various activities to improve mental health.

INNOVATIVE SOLUTION-READING MINDS THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

INNOVATIVE SOLUTION(Cont.). So, my idea is to activate this excellent development of the researchers everywhere around the globe and create the environment for the patients based on the results obtained. Since environmental conditions highly influence the mind and related activities of the person, creating a positive environment as per the requirement of the patient or the person will help to eliminate stress and depression. It is undoubtedly the fact that environment can have a positive and negative impact both on the mind and health of the person. For an instance- A room with bright lightings around no matter, be it natural or artificial can have a direct impact on the mental state of the person and thus can easily improve health characteristics of the person by easily either eliminating stress, depression or by bringing in stress and depression conditions in the person. Therefore, creating positive and favorable conditions around the person who is depressed by knowing his/her mental state with the help of development in Artificial intelligence which will actually read the mind of the person will help to eliminate stress and depression in higher education students. There are a number of evidences that show the various impacts of environment and surrounding areas on the health and mental state of the person. No doubt that stress and depression are directly associated with the environmental stress conditions (environmental design )..

CONCLUSION:. This analytical study researches on the topic of rising mental health issues among students undertaking higher education and identifies various causes behind the problem. The presentation also discusses the impacts students can have on themselves due to the various causes identified. Moreover, the background of the topic is also described in the presentation along with finding out various solutions to the problem that can somehow examine the problem and reduce it to the maximum possible extent. Followed by which the implementation plan of any one of the methods which are listed in the solutions sections, and the various key points that deduct the value and effectiveness of other methods is also mentioned there. The report also includes various graphs and figures analyzing the identified problem and is used as supporting evidences for the key points. In overall, the report summarizes the innovative solutions for rising cases of mental health issues among students of higher education and a plan of action for the same is also produced in the report. Besides this, user needs section is also incorporated in the report at the end..

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