Umeed Online Psychological Counselling System

There is a very significant proportion of the population of Pakistan, par the twenty-seven percent mark, which majorly includes people from various age groups especially (i). Teenagers (age bracket 13-19 years), (ii). Adults (both young and middle-aged in the age bracket of 20-35), and (iii). The ag

Project Title

Umeed Online Psychological Counselling System

Project Area of Specialization

Software Engineering

Project Summary

There is a very significant proportion of the population of Pakistan, par the twenty-seven percent mark, which majorly includes people from various age groups especially (i). Teenagers (age bracket 13-19 years), (ii). Adults (both young and middle-aged in the age bracket of 20-35), and (iii). The aged people (above 50-55 years), who are suffering from some sort of psychological disease. This percentage is increasing gradually with the passage of time with the increase in the immense societal pressures and the severe psychological tensions prevalent in society. Therefore, they are in desperate need of some psychological counseling for themselves. More significantly, most of these patients do not feel confident in physically meeting the psychologists live because they are afraid of being called with the defamation labels of “mentally-ill/retard person”, and try to hesitate medication-related psychiatric treatments since they believe that they will get addicted to medications and the medications will have a lot of side effects on their health. They are in a dire need of an alternative solution in this critical situation. So, this project is basically based on the idea of providing the residents of Pakistan an online psychological counseling platform, where they can seek online psychological counseling aid from a wide range of medically authorized, qualified, and registered psychologists. Moreover, they can also avail all the other services offered by the system, which include motivational videos, motivational articles/blogs, and daily health exercises, which would assist them in living a healthy lifestyle, achieve success in their life’s, and getting rid of their psychological disorders.

Project Objectives

The primary goal and or objective is to ensure that this online psychological counseling system contributes to the society by making a significant reduction in the patients that suffer from psychological related diseases, and the system grows with the passage of time ensuring better quality and more productive features for its further refinement in the nearby future.

• The system would provide people suffering from various psychological diseases an online platform where they could avail online psychological counseling services from various renowned psychologists at the ease of their smart devices. The aim of the system is to provide a multi-dimensional online psychological counseling platform where apart from video chat counseling or text chat counseling services, patients can also avail a wide range of other services such as motivational content and daily health exercises, which would help them a lot in living a healthy life. The secondary objective of this system is to provide an employment opportunity to all the capable unemployed psychologists across the country, who are professionally very capable but are somehow still unemployed due to the unemployment crisis the country is facing nowadays.

Project Implementation Method

Initially, we completed the project documentation in-depth, and made sure that no loopholes are left in the project documentation that might cause us difficulties later on in the project. Now, we are covering the development part. It shall be both an Android/Ios and Web-based system that shall provide all the functionalities listed in the project summary. The mobile app would be devloped across a native script mobile application technology, known as React Native, whereas, the web app would be devloped using the latest Javascript library for designing great UI, named React.js. The back-end of both of these systems shall be in Node.js. We have divided the development tasks amongst ourselves, and each person is testing whatsoever he has developed. Unit testing is being performed alongside development. Once the project is completely developed, then we shall perform the whole integration testing at the end to ensure that any drawbacks may be caused are encountered at the right time and we may not face any such major difficulties later on during our final year project evaluation presentation.

Benefits of the Project

There has been a lot of research and practical work done related to mental health in order to cater to all the psychological diseases and their immense drastic effects but still, these issues have been rapidly multiplying in number rather than decreasing. There is no online psychological counseling system currently working in Pakistan or anywhere across the globe that provides online psychological counseling services via video chat, text chat, and by providing all the other possible helping services/features such as motivational videos, motivational articles/blogs, daily health exercises, that can contribute in fighting against this serious issue. In order to overcome these issues, we have planned to build an online psychological counseling system, where people could seek any sort of mental counseling services from qualified and renowned clinical psychologists across the country. Moreover, they shall also be able to avail of other great services from the system such as viewing motivational videos, motivational articles/blogs, and daily health exercises.

However, the system shall only allow Psychologists to register on the system, and not any Psychiatrists since the primary focus shall be to provide online psychological counseling services without prescribing any medicines. Moreover, the video chat functionality is limited to the mobile application only since after critically analyzing the comfort level and ease of use of any normal user, especially for a patient of using the video chat functionality, it is far more preferred to make the online video chat functionality available on the mobile phone app only rather than on the website or both. 

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

• Psychological counseling via text chat
• Psychological counseling via video call
• Motivational videos
• Motivational articles/blogs
• Success stories
• The option of booking a live physical session (depends on many factors)
• Recovery/improvement analysis report
• Regular/daily exercises that can help in improving mental health
• Anonymous chat/chat by nickname option

Final Deliverable of the Project

Software System

Core Industry

IT

Other Industries

Core Technology

Others

Other Technologies

Sustainable Development Goals

No Poverty, Good Health and Well-Being for People, Quality Education, Decent Work and Economic Growth

Required Resources

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