Connect Pakistan- An OverviewUS

Psychosocial supports helps individuals and communities to heal psychological wounds and rebuild social structures after an emergency or critical event. It can help change people into active survivors rather than passive victims. Disasters, conflicts and health problems have severe psychosocial consequences.

Psychosocial support addresses a person’s emotional, social, mental and spiritual needs. All these needs are essential elements of positive human development. It supports families to provide for children’s physical, economic, educational, health and social needs. Psychosocial support also helps build resilience in children.

Psychosocial need assisting the community to meet their basic needs including their emotional and mental well-being also called psycho-social needs. To develop and nurture their need to feel worth- while, loved and secure in their relationships with others.

Psychosocial Impact defined as an effect caused by environmental and or biological factors on individual’s social aspects.

Our approach is to look at the individuals in the context of the combined influence that psychosocial factors and the surrounding social environment have on their physical and mental wellness and their ability to function.

CP aims at eliminating major psychosocial issues that include family problems, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, sexual abuse and violence. Along with these issues, aggression and anger are also included.

It is only after psychosocial assessment that an evaluation of the person is known. A psychosocial assessment is an evaluation of Mental health social status as well as functional capacity within the community.