ddroy's diary

"Knowledge is like a river; its nature is to flow. The dharma of knowledge is to flow to all corners of the world and nourish the cultures there. We should never stem its flow and thereby turn it into a stagnant pond. It is said that knowledge is the greatest gift one can give, for knowledge is imperishable. Even if we light a thousand lamps from one flame, the lustre of the first lamp never diminishes. Similar is the greatness of knowledge. Knowledge does not diminish, no matter how much it is shared. In fact, the more you give, the more it develops and expands." -- CHANCELLOR AMMA Source: http://amrita.edu/asas/amritapuri/index.php The Amrita School of Arts & Sciences at Amritapuri Campus took its birth from Chancellor Amma's educational vision. Amma's suggestion was to prepare a generation that could successfully meet the rigorous demands of the Information Age and at the same time, be imbued with the noble ideals of selfless service and love. Amma's visio...

OBJECTIVES: After completion of this course, students will understand basic concepts of psychology and its relation with performing art therapy. They will understand determinants of child development and basic concepts of Mental health (30 classes) COURSES: A. Introduction : Scope of Psychology in performing art therapy, Sensation, and perception, attention, short and long term memory, classical conditioning, trial and error and operant conditioning. Thinking, Intelligence (8 classes) B. Child development: Characteristics and determinants of development - Heredity and Environment, Brain localization and behaviour, Physical development, Language development, Emotional development, Intellectual development, Social development, Personality development. (12) C. Personality: Characteristics of personality, Psychodynamic theories of personality, Adler and Bandura’s model of personality (4 classes) C. Mental health: Principles of mental health. Models of adjustment and maladjustment, Characte...

On 26th August, I first time met Mitul, Ph.D. scholar in Psychology and his friend Roni in the workshop on dance movement therapy organized by the department of psychology, Calcutta university. I am thankful to Professor Mallika Banerjee for inviting me to the workshop. Mitul and Roni during one query explained us Laban movement analysis. The time was short to satisfy all our curiosities about the analysis. I think that one can use this method to describe and assess different postures and angles of body movement. They pointed at its usefulness in progressive dance therapy. Here is my collection: Rudolf Laban created this formula for interpreting, describing, visualising and notating all ways of movement. It is one of the most widely used tool to assess human movement analysis in dance, sports and in occupational therapy. Labanotation - also called Kinetography in Europe and South America - uses abstract symbols to define the: Direction of the movement Part of the body doing the movemen...

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From yesterday, I have started training to one student of psychology on editing articles submitted for publication in one research journal. Following steps were followed: Step 1: Abstract and main articles were given. Assignments are: a) Possible title (3 titles) b). Is main article related to abstract ? c) Make red the sweeping comments (statement not supported by research evidences)

Performing Art Therapy Center of Rabindra Bharati University has completed one year PG diploma course in performing art therapy. After completion of 2nd year course, students will be able to assist Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists in examining psychiatric patients in both hospital and community settings. Besides, they can provide minimum level of performing art therapy to patients if necessary. Now the center is searching for guest faculty in clinical psychology who can teach clinical psychology to the students using performing art. Two criteria have been decided: 1. Candidate should be M.Phil in clinical psychology, having experience in teaching UG or PG students with specific interest in performing art. 2. Candidate should be M.A./M.Sc. with specialization in abnormal/ clinical/ medical/ psychology, having experience in teaching UG or PG students with specific interest in performing art. Faculty should be proficient in teaching clinical psychology by demonstrating performing art. Inte...

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH My paper has been published in this journal. Here is the link http://mvint.usbmed.edu.co:8002/ojs/index.php/web