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Yesterday was the last day for my theory teaching in Rabindra Bharati University. In this semester, I taught them the followings: 1. Language development 2. Intellectual development 3. Emotional development 4. Personality Development 5. Case-history taking 6. Mental status examination 7. Muti-Axial systems of DSM-IV 8. General assessment functioning of Children and adults Social dance facilitates cognitive and social development :

19.12.09 Respected Ms. R. Roy Choudhury,Managing Trustee, Ms. Nita Sethia, Associate Managing trustee, Ms Anuradha Das, distinguished personalities in the dias -Professor Nilanjana Sanyal, Professor Pushpa Mishra, Dr.Bhargava, Professor Bakshi and distinguished delegates, I am thankful to you all for giving me opportunity to inaugurate Uttaran Resource Centre under Tarun Sinha Memorial trust for promotion of mental health. Currently, we are passing through a transition period. The transition between consciousness and no consciousness or between consciousness and faulty consciousness. A large number of people specially our younger generation, income generation groups ans seniors are the victims of the transition. They are gradually loosing psycho social immunities namely feeling of security, interpersonal trust, social support, autonomy in decision making, security feeling and feedback systems.This results high incidence in mental illness. According to a recent World bank study, mental ...

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On 14th and 15th August, I visited one very big petroleum plant and interviewed several panel engineers in the control rooms. I noticed that several judgments of the engineers based on the panel data The panels are like: . They observe, monitor changes and take control operations. During the operations, they give priority on quality control, safety and others. Slight delay or poor calibrations can create huge loss (crore in terms of rupees) of the company. Other problems are job is monotonous and under their capacity utilization. This results high attrition rate. In other words, executive functions of working memory and attitudes play critical role in job success and company excellence. Is any body here who are doing researches on job or ability taxonomy of panel engineers ? Some survey was conducted but not related to individual or team productivity. So, the survey results are not very much conclusive.

It is a nice experience to spend some time with the President, Director,Advisor, Mentor of Jyotirmay school of business. I was invited by the Director as an expert to select faculties across different levels. The institute has high vision to develop business capability among the students. In the process of interview, it comes to my mind that the Institute gives priority on different management methodology, techniques and tools besides depth in subject oriented knowledge. Candidate of economics, computer science, statistics perform better if they will be able to relate their knowledge with problems of management. For example, one knows about oracle or C++ or SAP, he must be confident in application of those programming in business solutions like ERP. I think that this is good approach, if the students are aware of methodology, he can innovate new techniques to solve business solutions. Another area is more important. This is knowledge about full process. For example, mere awareness of ...

WORKSHOP ON READING AND WRITING MOTIVATION Organized by Psychology Research Unit INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE 203, B.T. Road, Kolkata-700 108 20.7.2009 (Monday, 11 AM to 5 PM) Objective : Objectives of workshop are to disseminate knowledge about (a) reading and writing difficulties of disabled and non-disabled students in primary and secondary schools and (b) reading and writing motivation strategies. Who can apply: Senior teachers in primary and secondary schools, school counselors, school psychologists, Project investigators and administrative officers of the Govt. and Non-Govt. organizations, Faculty members of Universities or Research Institutes and Ph.D. scholars in Psychology, Education and Social work. Seats: Very limited to maintain homogeneity. Only experienced persons will be invited. Traveling allowance : No TA will be given for participating into the workshop. Foods & Accommodation: Working lunch will be served along with Tea and Coffee during the workshop. No accommoda...

Institutional Clusters to improve Academic activities To: IndianPsychologists @yahoogroups. co.in Date: Tuesday, 7 July, 2009, 7:55 AM This regional inequality can be controlled by formation of psychology cluster. Cluster can be formed in considering expertise on specific field. For example, cognitive psychology cluster will be formed with Allahabad, Benaras, Delhi, Mysore, Bhubaneswar and Calcutta university. Clinical psychology cluster will be formed with departments providing M.Phil in clinical psychology. Departments providing knowledge above the post graduation can be incorporated in this cluster based on their expertise. So, NIMHANS, CIP, IITs, IIMs, ISI., IISC, TISC, XIBM, XISS will get entry in this cluster. The function of cluster will be inter exchange of faculties, PG students and Research fellows for training and development in need based areas. Function of each cluster will be to reduce inequality within the group. This will strengthen their own internal system and regiona...