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Psychology awareness column

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1. Psychology is relevant to everyday life as everything we do, think, feel and respond to involves psychology. There are many branches of psychology including clinical, health, forensic, educational and organizational psychology. 2. With the rise of diseases, social issues, and mortality from psychological suffering, there is an increased need for psychologists across many professions. Psychologists help people learn effective social interaction and understand their internal world to channel energy positively. 3. One important role of psychologists is in clinical settings like hospitals and clinics where they evaluate, test, and treat patients suffering from psychological disorders. Treatment varies depending on the case but may include therapy, counseling, and skills training.

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Nazish Idrees Clinical Psychologist (MS. Clinical Psychology, UCP, Lahore) Freelance Writer at Upwork For Feedback and queries, contact-Nazsha38@gmail.com 01 September 2016 Psychology & Psychologist (Spreading Awareness) Have you ever pay attention to your daily routine? In everything you do, think, feel and response, there is psychology. Upon deep analysis, even of simple situations that cause you to smile provides some kind of information about the things, which help you to become happy. It is essential to understand psychology first. Psychology has knowledge about the functioning of our mind in relation to our body. Undoubtedly all happenings around you possess some kind of psychology. There are numerous branches of psychology, clinical psychology, health psychology, forensic psychology, educational psychology, and organizational psychology. It all starts from a human’s personality and continues throughout someone’s life. The subject helps in shaping behaviors, enhancing productivity, promoting acceptance and individuality. With the increase of life threatening diseases, social evils and the rate of mortality following psychological pain, the need of psychologist in every area of profession has been increased. For example, a patient with chronic illness in a hospital needs a psychological session to ease the emotional burden due to the health damages and a salesman in a fashion brand needs to consult a psychologist if he is unable to handle workload and stress of being working all the day, standing at the shop showing temper tantrums to his subordinates. Psychologists make you learn about effective interaction with others, they give awareness to you about your own self. The understanding of internal world is then converts your energy positively into practical ideas. Hence, indirectly predicting your high rate of satisfaction. One of the powerful roles being a psychologist is in clinical setting; mental hospitals and psychiatric clinics where patients visit due to suffering from serious psychological disorder. Various wards and departments require psychologists for different purposes. The patients recover by evaluation and treatment facilities they receive after referred to a psychologist. Assessment of mental state of a patient is carried out. Based on the presenting problem i.e. changes in eating behaviors, extreme mood swings, hallucinations or excessive use of a substance/drug, psychological testing is used to measure the intensity of symptoms. Treatment is
offered which varies case to case depending on the nature of a disorder. Individual therapeutic interventions, family and group counseling sessions and skills training i.e. stress management, coping strategies is planned. Regular monitoring of the patient’s condition is done until the symptoms cured. Psychologists educate humanity whenever needed. Their consultancy and psychotherapy services are always available. The psychologists do demand something professionally for them to work in a better way. They must be provided with secure and unbiased opportunities to benefit people at community level. They should be allowed to practice freely to use their professional judgment skills. A committee on government level must be established for psychologists to register and become licensed to prevent any harm. It will eliminate injustice and inequality to inculcate reasonable and appropriate programs for the psychologists to achieve their reputable positions in the future. Strictness for following code of ethics legally similar to APA, all over a nation will be a powerful tool to supply worth to the profession. It is a duty of a psychologist to promote mental health services through training programs and educational workshops at all types of institutions to play most of their part in serving vulnerable individuals of a society. Weak will be strengthen and strong will be grown.

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Psychology awareness column

  • 1. Nazish Idrees Clinical Psychologist (MS. Clinical Psychology, UCP, Lahore) Freelance Writer at Upwork For Feedback and queries, contact-Nazsha38@gmail.com 01 September 2016 Psychology & Psychologist (Spreading Awareness) Have you ever pay attention to your daily routine? In everything you do, think, feel and response, there is psychology. Upon deep analysis, even of simple situations that cause you to smile provides some kind of information about the things, which help you to become happy. It is essential to understand psychology first. Psychology has knowledge about the functioning of our mind in relation to our body. Undoubtedly all happenings around you possess some kind of psychology. There are numerous branches of psychology, clinical psychology, health psychology, forensic psychology, educational psychology, and organizational psychology. It all starts from a human’s personality and continues throughout someone’s life. The subject helps in shaping behaviors, enhancing productivity, promoting acceptance and individuality. With the increase of life threatening diseases, social evils and the rate of mortality following psychological pain, the need of psychologist in every area of profession has been increased. For example, a patient with chronic illness in a hospital needs a psychological session to ease the emotional burden due to the health damages and a salesman in a fashion brand needs to consult a psychologist if he is unable to handle workload and stress of being working all the day, standing at the shop showing temper tantrums to his subordinates. Psychologists make you learn about effective interaction with others, they give awareness to you about your own self. The understanding of internal world is then converts your energy positively into practical ideas. Hence, indirectly predicting your high rate of satisfaction. One of the powerful roles being a psychologist is in clinical setting; mental hospitals and psychiatric clinics where patients visit due to suffering from serious psychological disorder. Various wards and departments require psychologists for different purposes. The patients recover by evaluation and treatment facilities they receive after referred to a psychologist. Assessment of mental state of a patient is carried out. Based on the presenting problem i.e. changes in eating behaviors, extreme mood swings, hallucinations or excessive use of a substance/drug, psychological testing is used to measure the intensity of symptoms. Treatment is
  • 2. offered which varies case to case depending on the nature of a disorder. Individual therapeutic interventions, family and group counseling sessions and skills training i.e. stress management, coping strategies is planned. Regular monitoring of the patient’s condition is done until the symptoms cured. Psychologists educate humanity whenever needed. Their consultancy and psychotherapy services are always available. The psychologists do demand something professionally for them to work in a better way. They must be provided with secure and unbiased opportunities to benefit people at community level. They should be allowed to practice freely to use their professional judgment skills. A committee on government level must be established for psychologists to register and become licensed to prevent any harm. It will eliminate injustice and inequality to inculcate reasonable and appropriate programs for the psychologists to achieve their reputable positions in the future. Strictness for following code of ethics legally similar to APA, all over a nation will be a powerful tool to supply worth to the profession. It is a duty of a psychologist to promote mental health services through training programs and educational workshops at all types of institutions to play most of their part in serving vulnerable individuals of a society. Weak will be strengthen and strong will be grown.