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7th August, 2010: After the lunch break, the concurrent technical sessions began that got eminent speakers to speak on various topics of Positive Psychology.
Session-IV had the speakers talk on “Current Therapeutic Practises in Counseling”. Chaired by Prof. T. B. Singh and Mr. Vinod from AUR, psychotherapists and scholars from different parts of the country briefed the audience about the practices that have helped their patients to bring about a change in their lives. An impressive presentation was made by Prabhasini Appalsamy from Rhodes University (South Africa) where she spoke about a patient Megan, who came over her depression by connecting herself with quantum physics and Buddhism. While Megha Pushkarna emphasized on the role of family members in the lives of drug abused and alcoholics, Atasi Mohanty spoke about her case study on the poor mental health of the Tea-garden workers in north-east India. The session ended with the chairpersons congratulating the speakers on their work and presentin them with certificates.
The parallel session-V chaired by Prof. Ghalib Hussain and Dr.Soundarm Arul had the speakers expressing their thoughts on various topics like Positive psychology in Context with Spirituality and Indian Heritage, Education: Challenges and Expectations in New Millennium, Positive Psychology at Work to Reiki and Happiness and Ecological Attitude of Village and City Dwellers. The common conclusion of the session was the need to explore all the facets of positive psychology to help improve the quality of human life. At the end of the event certificates were handed out by the chairperson to the speakers.
Session-VI was chaired by the eminent Prof. M. P. Sharma and Prof. R. M. Dungawat and had the presenters speaking on psychiatric illness. Mrs. Usha Rani talked on the sensitive topic of social acceptance of mental retardation and said that social integration can be made possible through positive psychology. The presentations varied from talking about depressed Nepalese women to teenagers in slum.the session ended with Prof. Dungawat talking about positive psychology from the legal point of view. Mrs. Shashi Singhal thanked the chairpersons for their presence and asked them to hand over the certificates to the participants.
Session-VII had Dr.Prashant Bhimani as the Chairperson and was coached by Dr. Sharda, heads language cell in Amity University. Researchers and Scholars from various organizations discussed on the major topics of research like Gender Differences in Evaluation of Characteristics; Impact of Androgyny and Self-Esteem on Happiness among Working Women; Subjective Well-being, Locus of Control and Self-Efficacy among University Students; Is Self-esteem related to marital relationship in IT professionals with a working spouse became the highlights of the session.
Dr.Bhimani expressed his viewpoints on the basic needs of a common man and also mentioned that in the era of Nanotechnology, no one should follow the old orthodox methods relating to the facts and ideas, humorously adding further to conclude-“Believe in God because everything cannot be believed on google.com.”
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