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Dr. Asir Ajmal will be acting
chairperson from 28 July to 18 August 2008
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Dr. Asir Ajmal, Foreign Professor of
Psychology will look after the Psychology Department in the
absence of Dr. Kausar Suhail who is proceeding abroad to
visit U.K. from 28-07-2008 to 18-08-2008.
(30-07-2008)
GCU’s Psychology
Department WINS British Prime Minister’s Initiative for
International Education (PMI2) Research Award
The Psychology Department of the GC University Lahore has
won a prestigious British research award, the Prime
Minister’s Initiative for International Education (PMI2).
The Prime Minister’s Initiative supports and funds
international research projects after vetting numerous
applications from universities the world over. The Project
Manager at the British Council described the quality of the
bids put in by various universities as “very high”, adding
that GC University, Lahore was selected from among an
overwhelming number of applicants. The UK project partner is
Swaran Singh, Professor of Social & Community Psychiatry at
Warwick Medical School at University of Warwick, UK.
The Psychology Department of GCU will receive funding for
its project titled “Cross-cultural Analysis of Expressed
Emotions Construct in Families of Schizophrenic Patients:
Development of Cultural Norms and Counseling Strategies”.
The PMI2 is a two-year funding program (2008-2010) for
collecting data and carrying out research in Pakistan.
However, Dr Kausar Sohail, Chairperson Department of
Psychology, GCU Lahore has said that data will also
collected from the UK, if ethical permission is obtained
from British authorities, for comparing it with the
information gathered locally. Dr. Kausar Sohail would be the
project In-charge and two Ph. D students from her Department
and one post doctoral faculty member will be involved in
this project.
(23-06-2008)
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY EFFECTIVE FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN
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A
study conducted at GC University Lahore has shown that
individual therapy and education may be highly effective
with autistic children. It was revealed in a research
project titled “Evaluation of multi-pronged intervention
with autistic children conducted by Ms. Saliha Anjum. This
particular action research has been supervised by Prof. Dr.
Asir Ajmal and the findings show a prominent change in the
child’s daily functioning including social interaction,
compliance, self help, concentration, on-seat behavior,
verbal communication and non-verbal behavior as result of
individualized therapy and education on one to one basis.
(15-04-2008)
MENTAL
HEALTH WEEK ENDS WITH INTER-VARSITY QUIZ, POSTER COMPETITION
AND STAGE PLAYS
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With the ongoing Mental Health Week activities being held
under the auspices of Dr. Ajmal Psychological Society,
Inter-universities quiz competition was arranged at the
Bokhari auditorium.
In the quiz competition teams from MAO College Lahore,
Fatima Jinnah Women College Lahore, Garrison Degree College
Lahore, Government Islamia College Civil Lines, Lahore and
the host GCU Lahore participated. The topic of the quiz
competition was ‘Psychological Assessment’. The Garrison
Degree College team won the first position in the
intervarsity quiz competition while Fatima Jinnah Women
College and Government Islamic College Civil Lines got
second and third positions respectively. Dr. Hamid Sheikh
former Chairman Applied Psychology Department Punjab
University Lahore gave away prizes to the winning teams.
Expressing his views, Dr. Sheikh said that the Psychology
Department of GCU Lahore has arranged the mental health
activities in a befitting manner. He said the students of
different colleges have made their excellent performances
and shown keen interest towards understanding the different
psychological aspects through their intelligencia and quick
response during their quiz competition. Chairperson
Department of Psychology GCU eulogized her department for
making excellent arrangements of the Mental Health Week
activities like the previous years and said that this has
been the hall mark of the GCU Lahore that provides a
congenial ambiance of academics.
The second part of activities was the Poster Competition in
which M. A. O College Lahore, Government Islamia College
Civil Lines Lahore, Kinnaird College Lahore and the host GCU
Lahore participated. The posters depicting diverse ideas
pertaining to social life were on display.
The last activity of the day was stage plays. The four
performances titled “Hawa Ke Beti”, “Macbeth” and “Roh Ka
Natak” and Mime on Shikwa Jawab-e-Shikwa were staged. The
young students of GCU staged their versatile performance in
a wonderful manner and earned applause from the audience.
In the evening a dinner in honor of the Old Ravians
Psychologists was arranged. The faculty of the Psychology
Department also participated in the dinner.
(29-03-2008)
DR. AJMAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GCU ORGANIZES 2-DAY
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PSYCHOLOGY & LITERATURE
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Prof. Dr. M. Shamim Hanfi
Head department of Urdu Jamia Milia Islamia New
Delhi India in his presidential address in the inaugural
ceremony of the 2-day International Conference on Psychology
& Literature has said that man comes across glittering
realities of life only through self denial and utter silence
prevailing all around the human being of this age, is his
greatest Psychological issue. In order to understand
literature properly, it is necessary to explore its
Psychological dimensions. He also said that the present
contrary is known as the century of conflicts, disputed
personalities and differences as we are breathing in an
environment which is badly polluted by Psychological
sickness. Those who inspired literature in during 20th
century include Darwin, Carl Marx and Sigmund Freud as these
persons left un-erasable impressions on human history.
Dr. Sohail
Ahmed Khan, Acting Vice Chancellor and Dean Faculty of
Languages, Oriental and Islamic learning also spoke on the
occasion. He said that a student of literature should have
close contact with relevant discipline like Sociology and
Psychology as the knowledge of various dimensions of these
disciplines unfold many layers of interpretation an reveal
hidden meanings of the words before him. Psychology was not
only a way of mental treatment but also a source of
understanding deep realties of literature. He said that
writing such a fiction as might be full of Psychological
insight and vision is pretty difficult task. He observed that
the need of the new paradigms in all disciplines was
increasing and stressed that South Asian people can’t
contribute new ideas to the realm of sociology or psychology
unless they relate them to their social circumstances.
The
chairperson of the department of psychology Prof. Dr. Kausar
Sohail in her welcome address said that her department had the
privilege of conducting symposiums and conferences on
un-explored areas of Psychology in Pakistan. She said that
the relationship between Psychology and Literature was deep
routed and sadness, panic, loneliness, emptiness, existential
neurosis, childhood fears, anxiety toward body changes and
others words used both in psychology and literature reflect
that both disciplines are inseparable. She said that every
good writer and poet is a psychologist but every psychologist
dose not necessarily have a good understanding of human nature
as a poet is swayed rather by sentiment than by reason and
always teaches his subject in a partial fashion.
The
literary session was presided over by Dr. Rafia Hassan and Dr.
Intizar Hussain whereas speakers included Dr. Sohail Ahmed
Khan, Siddiq ur Rehman Qidvai, Dr. Khalid Sanjarani and Dr.
Asir Ajmal. Panel discussion was also held which was co-ordinated
by Dr. Asir Ajmal and presided over by Prof. Shamim Hanfi and
Dr. Ruhi Khalid. The discussant of the panel session included
Shahzad Ahmed, Dr. Naumana Amjad, Asghar Nadeem Syed, Mirza
Athar Baig, Amjad Tufail, Masood Asher and Khalid Saeed.
The
conference was organized by Dr. Ajmal Psychological Society of
GCU.
(29-03-2008)
MENTAL HEALTH
WEEK PROGRAM AT GCU
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The psychology department of the GCU University Lahore is holding its
annual mental health week program under the banner of Dr.
Ajmal psychological society. The main activities include a
symposium and panel discussion on “psychology and
literature” to be held on 28th March 2008, quiz
competition based on psychological assessment, poster
competition and plays/skits/mime on psychology and
literature on 29th March 2008.
(26-03-2008)
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PSYCHOLOGY AND LITERATURE
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The Psychology Department is holing an “International
Symposium on Psychology and Literature” in reference to
“Mental Health Week 2008” on Friday, March 28, 2008 in Bokhari Auditorium at 9:00 a.m. Mr. Shamim Hanfi will be the
Chief Guest. For detail of sessions please
Click Here.
(25-03-2008)
Dr. Asir Ajmal will be acting
chairperson from 01 to 12 March 2008
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Dr. Asir Ajmal, Foreign Professor of
Psychology will look after the Psychology Department in the
absence of Dr. Kausar Suhail who is on Ex-Pakistan leave
from 01-03-2008 to 12-03-2008.
(01-03-2008)
TWO RESEARCH PROJECTS COMPLETED BY GCU
Lahore's MPHIL STUDENTS
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Usman Rasheed and Ms. Zahra Fatima M.Phil students of the
Psychology Department of the GCU Lahore have successfully
completed their research projects.
Usman Rashhed completed his research under the supervision
of Dr. Kausar Suhail. This study was conducted to assess the
impact of psychosocial rehabilitation program on symptoms as
well as quality of life of patients. The rehabilitation
program was structured according to behavioral paradigms of
improving the symptomatic condition as well as general
functioning of the patients with schizophrenia considering
the proved the efficacy of this program.
Zahra
Fatima completed her dissertation based in an international
collaborative research project supervised by Dr. Farah Malik
of GCU and Prof. Glyn Humphreys, University of Birmingham,
UK The sensitivity to emotional words was examined through
an ‘Emotional Stroop’ task with a group of abused and non
abused children. The abused group showed extremely longer
reaction time for emotionally violent words than controls
that suggests a form of startle response; the difference was
greater for boys than girls. The differences for behavioral
problems, socio-economic status and family organization were
also significant for abused children.
(22-11-2007)
GCU LAHORE DECLARES M.SC PSYCHOLOGY PART I RESULT
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The GC
University Lahore has announced the result of M.Sc Psychology
Part-I Final Examination 2007. According to a notification
issued from the office of Controller of Examinations of GCU,
36 students appeared in the examination and out of them
29 students were declared successful. The pass percentage
remained 80.55 percent.
501,
502, 504, 505, 506, 507, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 514, 515,
517, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 525, 526, 527, 530, 531, 534,
535, 536, 537 and 539.
(14-07-2007)
Dr. Zahid Mahmood on
UK Tour
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Dr.
Muhammad Asir Ajmal, foreign Professor of Clinical
Psychology will look after the Department of Clinical
Psychology in the absence of Dr. Zahid Mahmood who is on
Ex-Pakistan leave from 15-06-2007 to 26-06-2007
(16-06-2007)
GCU LAHORE ORGANIZED INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON CROSS CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
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The
Psychology Department of GC University Lahore organized one
day International Conference on Cross Cultural psychology in
collaboration with the Higher Education Commission and British
Council academic link activity 2007 at the Bokhari Auditorium
of the varsity.
Dr. Jan Oyebode in her key note address said that
psychology shed light on the real life issues and is a vital
discipline. She said that human psychology is complex for
number of reasons. She also talked about different designs and
modules used in psychological research. She said that seeds
planted through this collaborative research have been fruitful
and the interaction between the Birmingham University and GCU
Lahore would foster some help in moving ahead in the research
work of different psychological aspects. By eliminating
psychological differences, we can augment inter-cultural and
inter-communal harmony.
Dean
Faculty of Arts GCU Lahore Dr. Sohail Ahmad Khan while
representing the Vice Chancellor said that cross-cultural
understanding simply refers to the basic ability of the people
to recognize, interpret and correctly react to people,
incidences or situations that are open to misunderstanding due
to cultural differences. He said adopting this course, many of
the misunderstandings about other cultures might be eliminated
or at least reduced. He said that different cultures promote
different value systems norms, attitudes and behaviors. He
thanked Dr. Jan Oyebode and Dr. John Rose for their excellent
lecture presentation and mutual interactions with the students
and the faculty members of psychology Department during the
Mental Health Week activities. Dr. Sohail Ahmed Dean of Arts
presented souvenir shields to Dr. Jan Oyebode and Dr. John
Rose.
In her
welcome address, Chairperson GCU’s Psychology Department Dr.
Kausar Sohail said that the objective of this conference was
to enhance the capacity building of the students. She said
that this is the final year of the British Council academic
link program, which was started in 2004. The outcomes achieved
through this link program are multidimensional i.e. six
faculty members from the University of Birmingham visited GCU
Lahore while three psychologists visited the Birmingham
University for acquiring training on multiple forums. Dr.
Kausar further said that about twelve seminars and workshops
have been conducted by UK faculty in different areas like
research methods, cognitive, neuroscience, clinical psychology
and rehabilitation psychology, trauma and bereavement,
developmental disabilities and dementia. She also briefed
about the revision and up gradation of undergraduate and
postgraduate courses. She said that the link program also
offered training to psychology in conducting and devising
computer simulated experiments in psychology.
The
first session was followed by the second session in which Dr.
Asar Ajam, Dr. Shabbir Rana, Dr. Farah Malik and Ms. Syeda
Salma Hasan, made their lecture presentations.
(28-04-07)
BRITISH Psychologists Discussed on Talking THERAPIES
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On the second day of HEC-BC Academic Link activities and
Mental Health Week, 2007, Dr. John Rose Academic Director,
Clinical Psychology Department, Brimingham University UK,
delivered lecture on services needs of South Asians
populations in UK and assessment and intervention with careers
of older people with dementia respectively. Dr. Jan R Oyebode
Clinical Psychologist of the same University lectured on
‘talking therapies with people with learning disabilities. The
students asked questions pertaining to the subjects from the
guest speakers.
(26-04-2007)
Birmingham University’s Psychologists Highlights Research
Methods Techniques
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Dr. Ajmal
Psychological Society of the Psychology department GC
University Lahore organized pre-conference seminar in
connection with HEC-BC Academic Link activities and Mental
Health Week, 2007.
Dr. Jan R Oyebode
Clinical Psychologist from the University of Brimingham, UK
delivered lecture on qualitative research methodologies
while
Dr. John Rose from the same university discussed
practice based research in detail.
Dr. Oyebode discussed the
basis and roots of qualitative research and also described
the range of qualitative methodologies. She said that
quality research is concerned with the quality of a
phenomenon rather than the quality of it. She further said
that in the United Kingdom, people expect life to be trouble
free and they mostly talk about maintaining harmonious
attitudes. She said that qualitative research methods are
usually flexible and open-ended.
Dr. John Rose described
Practice Based Research in detail. He described the measures
range from quantitative to qualitative analysis and talked
about the advantages and disadvantages of the practice based
research. He said, a researcher must accept responsibility
for maintaining confidentiality. Prof. Rose who also ran a
series of anger management groups in UK described in detail
the incidents of challenging behavior and Anger Inventory.
He said, self report data is much easier to collect and
seems to be valid. He also presented a graphic picture of
anger inventory scores over time.
The Chairperson, faculty
members and students of the department were present on the
occasion.
(24-04-2007)
GCU in collaboration with the HEC and British Council academic
link programe is holding mental health week from 24 to 28
April 2007
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The
Department of Psychology GC University Lahore is organizing
MENTAL HEALTH WEEK & Higher Education Comission and British
Council Academic Link Activities 2007
from April 24th to 28th , 2007. The programme is as
under:
Pre-conference Seminars
Venue:
Sir Fazal-e-Hussain Reading Room
24th
April
09:30 a.m.
Research Methods
Qualitative Research Methods
Dr. Jan
Oyebode
Practice
Based Research
Dr. John
Rose
25th
April
09:30 a.m. Interventions for Learning Disability and Dementia
Talking
therapies with people with learning disabilities
Dr.
John Rose
Assessment
and intervention with careers of older people with dementia
Dr. Jan
Oyebode
International Conference on
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Venue:
Bokhari Auditorium
27th
April
09:30 a.m.
Inauguration Ceremony
Recitation
of Holy Quran
Welcome
Address: Dr. Kausar Suhail
Address:
Vice Chancellor,
GC University,
Address:
Director British Council,
Key Note
Address: Dr. Jan Oyebode & Dr. John Rose.
27th
April
6.
Relationship between frequency of aggressive acts, thinking,
self-censure and private self-consciousness.
Ms.
Naumana Amjad,
Martin
Skinner &
Ian
Morley
7.00 p.m.
Ravian Psychologist Alumni Dinner
28th
April
Inter Universities Quiz and
Plays Competition
Venue:
Bokhari Auditorium
09:30 a.m.
Quiz
Competition
12:00
noon. Plays Competition
Organized by:
Dr. Ajmal Psychological
Society
Programme coordinators:
Dr. Shabbir
Ahmad Rana (0321-4824602)
Syeda Salma
Hasan (0333-4367870)
Ms. Amina
Hanif Tarar (0302-4579817)
| Contact Us:
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
GC UNIVERSITY LAHORE
Ph:
111-000-010 Ext: 307-309
Mob:
0300-9439228
kausarsuhail@hotmail.com
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GCU’s Psychology Department Alumni Annual Dinner
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The
Psychology Department of GC University Lahore is going to hold
the Psychologist’s alumni annual Dinner on 27th April 2007 at
7:00 p.m. in the Bokhari auditorium of the GC University
Lahore. The Chairperson of the Department said that alumni
dinner would provide the Old Ravian psychologists with an
opportunity to renew their contact with their alma-mater and
their professional fellows.
(20-04-2007)
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