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Origin of Indian Mental health service

Dear Dr. Wade Pickren Thank you for your interest in studying the origin of mental health services of India. Sorry, I am not expert to speak about this issue as I have not done any research on this area. But based on my own experience, I am trying to give you some insight. Others can contribute more. ****** Indian mental health services are developed in Guru griha (Ashram) where in younger students learn basic principles of stress adjustment by interacting with nature. These principles are: 1. Self-awareness 2. Autonomy 3. Creativity 4. Trust 5. Self evaluation And the nature is of two types : Physical and Psychological. Physical nature refers to natural surroundings like Khiti (land), aup (water), tej (energy), marut (air) and Byom (sky). All these are unbounded, multidimensional and more complex. Therefore, in guru griha, students are learning how to unbound the self for coping. Like, physical, the psychological nature is very complex, multiaxial, and unbounded. These are: a) Kam

A research

Children who are poor in school performance often lack the cognitive abilities like listening accuracy, phonological awareness, working memory, comprehension etc. Listening accuracy is the ability to discriminate acoustic sweeps. Phonological awareness is ability to distinguish parts of speech, such as syllables and phonemes presented auditorily. Working memory implies a system for the temporary holding and manipulation of information during the performance of a range of cognitive tasks. Fast ForWord Language Gateway Edition product software of Scientific Learning Corporation aims to improve above abilities through it's web based 7 training exercises. These are Block commander (BC), Old MacDonald’s Flying Farm (OM), Phoneme Identification (PI), Phonic Match (PM), Phonic Words (PW), Language Comprehension Builder (LCB), Block Commander (BC). Aim of this study was to assess criterion related validity of the said product following request from the Scientific learning corpo