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Video Games As A Coping Mechanism

Admin IIBPAnveshan, Issue 7, Volume 2

Every one of us must have been allured by the tempting graphics and the instant gratification provided by the video games. They were designed for the sole purpose of entertainment which appealed to the young population. With the advancement in technology, the focus shifted from entertainment to other reasons why people started playing video games. Imagine that you have the …

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Use Of Cognitive Therapy In Treatment For Anxiety And Panic Disorders: A Look Through Scientific Studies

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However, David Clark broadly defined Cognitive Therapy as the process of identification of distorted thoughts, maladaptive beliefs and/or assumptions and consequent reshaping of the distorted cognitions with reality including and not limited to thought monitoring, and thought challenging, etc. The cognitive model of psychopathology uses the information processing theory as a corollary through which specific data is gathered, interpreted, and …

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Should Animal Research In Psychology Be Eliminated?

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Animal researches were effective in finding the effects of alcoholism in pregnancy, finding ways to deal with alcoholism and substance addiction, impact on improving the approach towards treating obesity (APA, Psy 301-CSULB, 1994). These researches including experiments with the animal have a huge impact on the education industry as well as on many improvements in studies of learning and cognitive …

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Augmenting Employee Empowerment At Workplace

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When attempting to understand how organizational theorists have attempted to define employee empowerment, two kinds of empowerment come into the picture. First is structural empowerment associated with the delegation of power by managers to employees. The second is psychological empowerment-based primarily on self-determination and intrinsic value. Most definitions of empowerment refer to some aspect of control over decision making, control …

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COVID-19: How It Psychologically Affected The Rural Communities

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Let’s start with the lockdown when there was no public transport, no travel permitted (except by those approved by the government), and very little transport of goods. Till 24th March, the spread of this pandemic was an urban phenomenon, largely found in locations that had foreign travelers and in a few smaller towns which had migrants from abroad. Since the …

Cognitive Dominance and Leader-Follower Exchange Dynamics

Dr. Farah NaqviLeadership Development

Leadership has always been a topical subject in both academic research and the business world. The success of an organization is often attributed to its leader. Going by the researches in social psychology, people use two primary strategies to navigate up in the hierarchy. The first strategy is ‘dominance’ where people try to attain social rank by coercion, intimidation, fear, …

How to bring the Economy back.

Admin IIBPNews Corner

IIBP Associate researcher Dr, Farah Naqvi was invited by a news channel to a panel discussion on how to bring economy back. She is an academician, writer, corporate trainer, and HRD consultant. Currently, she is associated with the Gulf center for university education, Kuwait. In her academic and training career, she has worked with premier institutes like the Indian Institute …

Jyoti Gupta

Dishaa SinhaMental Health Champions

Jyoti Gupta A practicing clinical psychologist with 20 years of clinical experience, Jyoti Gupta has worked with people from all walks of life to achieve mindfulness. With vast experience in, clinical and community interventions, assessment, diagnostic process, guidance and counselling, psychometric testing. As a therapist in private practice, She specializes in helping couples improve their relationships, individuals recover from depression, ...
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Pandemic (COVID-19) and Rural Education System

Admin IIBPAnveshan, Issue 6, Volume 1

The onset of this deadly pandemic has started one problem that has been faced by the future of our country. It is the problem of the distribution of knowledge. the mode of education has transformed into online education or digital education who wish to gain knowledge opting for online education. Online education is called remote learning or remote access learning …

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Developing Creativity is Helpful in the Pandemic

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It is well-known that health emergencies are associated with unfavourable psychosocial consequences, and the COVID-19 outbreak will inevitably cause distress and leave many people vulnerable to mental health problems. Fear, anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress were common psychological symptoms reported globally. Underlying reasons for these symptoms may be include disruptions in daily routine due to restrictive measures, social isolation, feeling …