Department of Psychology

Psychology is a fascinating subject and hence everyone gets attracted to the subject instantaneously. Psychology is nothing but the study of human behaviour. It touches almost every facet of our lives. In today's busy and fast moving world students are faced with a lot of stress, tension, competition, time urgency and many more problems. Psychology helps them to deal with the problems and more importantly to face the problems with courage. Knowledge of psychology not only helps them to know themselves better, but also to know and understand others. This helps their inter - personal relationship.

Why do people behave the way they do? Do we dream every night? What is the effect of genetics and environment on behaviour? How does the brain work? These questions as well as topics such as stress management, personality development, health and wellbeing, child development, attitude formation, are dealt with in the psychology syllabus.

As psychology is a practical subject they are given hands on experience at special school. Here they are acquainted with different types of mental illness and are taught how to deal with the children having these special needs.

We in the department believe that mere theoretical knowledge of psychology is not sufficient. We make the students use the knowledge of psychology in dealing with their practical everyday life problems. Through a number of outreach programmes students acquire various skills like Communication skills, Leadership skills, Organizational skills, and problem solving skills.

On the lines of Maslow's concept of self actualization, we in the department motivate and encourage our students to use their potential to the fullest extent and be self-actualized individuals.

 Objectives:

• To make teaching more effective by using innovative learner-centered methods.
• To help students apply psychological knowledge to real life situations.
• To instil human values and social concern, through extension activities.
• To provide opportunities for building up self-confidence and self-image of the students.

Profile of the Department

Activities for the year 2011 - 2012

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  Inauguration of the Psychology Forum & a Guest Lecture by Prof. Rajesh Kumar Shetty on the topic “Personality”

  

•  CHART MAKING COMPETITION:This competition was held on July 5^{th 2011}and was open to all the students of the college. The topic was “ROAD RAGE.”
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   A pencil sketch competition was held which was open to all the students of the college. Participants had to sketch the portraits of psychologists provided by the department.

• Photography Competition:The theme of the Photography competition was EMOTIONS AND MOODS. A time duration of one month was given to the students to shoot pictures of people in various moods.
•  Collage Competition:This competition was held on September 15^th. The competition was open to only the psychology students. Students were given the option of choosing any topic from their syllabus.

Honours Programme

Basic skills in counselling 

Future Plans:

• Academic: Guest Lecture, Talks as part of Psychology Forum Activity.
• Co-curricular activities planned: Work Shop on Neuro- Linguistic Programming  
• Mini Exhibition 
• Competitions – Essay writing, Model making,Psychology Quiz, Photography, and Chart.
• Consultancy: Administration of IQ and Personality tests open to the students of the college.
• Career guidance Programme – (Department): Career Guidance Talk for theIII Degree students

Workshops / Seminars :

• Ms. Elsie Tharian and Ms. Vinatha attended the International Conference for Women at School of Social Work, Roshini Nilaya between 28th and 30th of October 2010.

U.G. Staff Members:

1.	Sr. Marie Evelyn A.C.		M.A., M.Phil.
2.	Mrs. Elsie George		M.A.
3.	Mrs. Vinatha K.		M.A.
4.	Ms. Verina Joshna		M. Sc.