Considerable body of knowledge has been amassed with respect to the psychological, sociological, medical and economic effects of joblessness on unemployment at both the micro and macro levels. There is no doubt that for the vast majority of people in this modern era, the issue of being confronted with redundancy and its consequent unemployment is a mentally disturbing and an unpleasant experience. The aim of this paper is to relay general considerations, mainly social-psychological in nature that may be relevant to professionals who encounter by virtue of depressed economy individuals adversely affected