Schools, Colleges and Special Schools
Psychology can help in assessing the academic performance, mental health and behaviour of students as well as teachers and provide them support and guidance for the same. It can support individual students through various developmental issues by focussing on testing.
It assists in identifying and studying learning methods to better understand how students absorb and retain new information besides developing and applying theories of human development, which help us in understanding individual learning styles and formulating the best suitable instruction process, especially in the cases of students with learning disabilities and diverse learning abilities.
Busting the Stress & Mastering:
The fear of exams builds up exam stress in many students with a lot of unpleasant consequences. Students under stress may not be able to cultivate positive thoughts, and this may lead to illness and deviant behaviour. Counselling helps them in dealing with this. At the school level, it helps students to build and strengthen social and emotional skills.
Diagnosis & Treatment Plans:
To put it in a nutshell, the principal functions performed by a psychologist include assessment, psychoeducation, consultation, interventions, research & evaluation, in-service education and administration. All of these have a salutary effect on the alleviation of behavioural and academic performance.
Issues & Disorders:
Common teenage disorders like bulimia, anorexia, anxiety, anti-social behaviour, substance abuse, low self-esteem are increasingly noticed in schools today. Coupled with these, issues like bullying, incidents of violence, gun culture, alcoholism, binge drinking and hatred have become a bane across schools worldwide. Addiction to gaming & social media and cyberbullying are growing concerns in schools post the pandemic.
Addressing the Problems:
Psychology instils sensitivity, builds resilience, empathy, and encourages mindfulness behaviour, as it is today, an urgent social requirement. Additionally, it helps in identifying at-risk students and provides prevention and intervention services. Conflict resolution and problem management techniques are taught along with anger management, explaining the root cause of all such problems.
Dealing Successfully with Changes:
Psychologists bring an awareness among adolescents about the pangs of growing up and how to handle them, as emotional disturbances are rife during this age. They offer support to teenagers/adolescents in sorting out problems in their relationships. It helps them introspect on their behavioural thoughts, thus promoting positive behaviour & motives, and simultaneously emphasises the ethical, spiritual and cultural values. This helps in creating a safe, positive school climate.
Course of Action:
Suicide prevention programs; whole class affective education programs; peer counselling programs and school-wide bully prevention programs are some measures adopted.
Safe Learning Atmosphere:
Team building, social-skills instruction, behavioural competency, and the interpretation of site-based data are areas in which a psychologist can be especially valuable. Career & vocational guidance is one among the prime contributions made by a psychologist.
Thus, psychologists ally with teachers, families, school administrators and other professionals to establish a truly safe and supportive learning environment that abets fruitful connections between school, home and the society.
College-goers:
College students, on the other hand especially face issues with interpersonal relationships and their career. There is a dire need for a psychologist at the collegiate level for a number of reasons. Counselling is necessary for improving student academic performance, lest it may lead to falling grades, thus aborting academic success.
Distinctive Counselling & Career Guidance:
- Some students may find the atmosphere at college very stifling for a plethora of reasons – at the time of joining, during the stay and/or even when they return after a break. Special counselling has to be tailor made for them.
- Suicides at colleges have become a scourge and are a blot on the college administration. Students struggling with such an attitude need to be properly identified and given the right counselling. Student dropout occurring due to economic hardships also has to be addressed.
- In addition to this, students must also cope with a myriad of personal and psychological problems as they have to quickly adapt to environments plagued by rapid changes, ambiguity, uncertainty, depleted support systems and a compelling need to put in excellent academic performances. Career concerns seem to occupy high priority.
Special Programs for Differently-abled Learners:
- Psychologists play a unique role in the educational set up of the nation. Duly trained in the areas of psychology and education, they can ably provide the right inputs to the school administration and parents of differently-abled children and those with learning disorders.
- They can help them in navigating special education process, assist parents regarding social, emotional and learning challenges faced by such children, and at the same time help them understand the learning and adjustment processes of children.
- Psychological counselling along with other therapeutic techniques is conducted for such children and parents.
- Their services also include psychoeducational assessment and diagnosis of specific learning and behavioural disabilities including, but not limited to, case study evaluation, recommendations for remediation or placement and periodic re-evaluation of such children.
Creating Informed Citizens/Nationals:
The role of a psychologist revolves around providing personal and psychological support services that contribute to student development, adjustment and learning, while at the same time preventing negative and self-defeating behaviour to enable them to emerge as an informed citizen.
Enrichment & Acceleration for Gifted Students:
Psychologists possess expertise in the areas of cognitive assessment and learning which enables them to assist schools in the identification of gifted students and provide consultation to assist these students in maximizing their potential.
Role of Element H in this industry
- Offers Psychometric assessments for children with specific learning disorder.
- Creates awareness on Gender sensitization and sexual health.
- Offers Psychometric services for children suffering from anxiety, depression, behavioural problems and psychosis.
- Provides Assessment and guidance in choosing the right career path.
- Provides Psychometric assessments and psychotherapy to help children and adolescents overcome emotional dysregulation, interpersonal issues etc., career assessments and guidance, coping strategies to address psychological distress during the pandemic.
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