Samina Bano

Posttraumatic growthThe term posttraumatic growth refers to positive psychological change experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances (Calhoun & Tedeschi, 2001). It is manifested in a variety of ways, including an increased appreciation for life in general, more meaningful interpersonal relationships, an increased sense of personal strength, changed priorities and a richer existential and spiritual life. Although the term is new, the idea that good can come from great suffering is ancient. Tedeschi and Calhoun (2004) noted that reports of growth experiences in the aftermath of traumatic events far outnumber reports of psychiatric disorders. This is despite the fact that they are concerned with truly traumatic circumstances rather than everyday stressors. The widespread assumptions that traumas often result in disorders should not be replaced with expectations that growth is an inevitable result. Instead, it has been found that continuing person...

Although traditional meditation has been found to be effective in improving physical and mental health of subjects, but there was a paucity of research of the effect of active or dynamic meditation on these variables. Therefore, the present study was aimed at studying the effect of dynamic meditation on anxiety of the subjects. Total sample of the present study comprised of 60 subjects, 30 each in experimental and control group. Subjects in the experimental group were given 21 days training in dynamic meditation. Anxiety of the experimental and control group subjects was measured in pre and post condition with the help of Sinha anxiety scale. Obtained data were analyzed with the help of analysis of covariance. In post condition, an experimental group scored better than the control group on total anxiety. An effect size of dynamic meditation on anxiety was moderate.

Families and carers of people with disabilities face significant difficulties in their life. Although giving care to the child is part of the responsibility of the parents, the situation becomes entirely different when the child is diagnosed with a disability and may rely on long-term dependence on daily living. It is because parents have to manage their children’s health problem as well as the requirements of everyday living. Hardiness has been shown to be associated with the individual’s use of active, problemfocused coping strategies for dealing with stressful event. The present research was undertaken with the purpose to see the Stress and Psychological Hardiness and the possible relationship between the two variables among the Parents of physically challenged children. The study was conducted on 60 parents taken on purposive basis from Delhi. Thirty parents were those who have normal children and 30 parents who have children living with disabilities. Parenting stress index-shor...

Child maltreatment has been identified as a significant problem, both within India and outside. According to UNICEF, over the last decade, there has been a growing recognition about this, but the problem has remained unresolved largely due to being underreported and undocumented. Previous research in this area has reported inconsistent gender differences across the world. Besides, there are shreds of evidence to suggest that childhood maltreatment would be associated with nightmares later in life, but a handful of studies exist in this context. Moreover, there is a paucity of research concerning the interaction effect of gender and group (nightmare sufferer vs non-sufferer) on childhood maltreatment. Owing to the insufficient research and inconsistent findings, the present study aimed to investigate gender differences in childhood maltreatment among nightmare sufferers as compared to non-sufferers. A total of 120 participants were selected from New Delhi. The results of two-way ANOVA suggest that the nightmares later in life would be associated with the abuse and neglect experienced during childhood as nightmare sufferer group reported having higher rates of child abuse and neglect than non-sufferers. It also suggests that male participants in general experience childhood maltreatment more than females; however, emotional abuse was experienced by males only if they belonged to the nightmare sufferer group.

Alcohol abuse is a worldwide problem that causes various sequelae, which severely affect physical and mental health, social and daily life. Quality of Life (QOL) is increasingly recognized as an important outcome measure in treatment studies and for service evaluation. The study was conducted with the aim of exploring the Quality of life in dual diagnosis, alcohol dependence syndrome and control group. A sample of 30 male subjects using purposive sampling and quantitative method. In each group a sample of 10 subjects were taken from OPD and ward of Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), Delhi. Tool like quality of life (WHOQOL-Brf, 1998) were collected from subjects personally and separately from each other. Descriptive statistics and Kruskal-Wallis Test techniques were used to analyse the data. Results indicate that there was significant difference in quality of life among three groups but the quality of life related to physical domains, social domain and environ...

Certain professions are demanding and often the cause of stress among the professionals. One such profession is social work. Social workers being in a challenging role, provide help and support to improve outcomes in people’s lives. It is not easy for social workers to deal with job related stress. Despite challenging and stressful work life, they opt to be in this profession. Present study is an attempt to find out some contributing factors for sustaining in stressful professions like this. Various studies have revealed that psychological capital and spiritual transcendence play an important role in adding value to one’s life. The aim of the present study was to find out the relationship between Psychological Capital, Spiritual Transcendence and Quality of Life. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 60 social workers, with minimum two years of experience working in NGO’s of Delhi. A correlation method was used with one group design. The tools administered were ASPIRES, PC...