The volume deals with understanding the various kinds of stress faced by students especially those related to their growing up and examination concerns. It discusses the effects of parental interference on the health of students especially their psychological state, scrutinising feelings of anxiety in them, their adjustment and their self-confidence. It takes up social support and adjustment of students, and ways to address the academic anxiety felt by many adolescent students. It delves into advances in mental health interventions for children who have been victims of abuse. It is concerned with holistic yoga intervention for students that can aid in enhancing their self-concept and their behaviour in the classroom. It analyses issues relevant to contemporary times like impact of dependence behaviour on mobile phones.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sibnath Deb
Sibnath Deb is the Faculty Member in the department of Applied Psychology, Calcutta University, Kolkata. Also, he is a Visiting Faculty at ISPCAN Global the School of Management, Tripura University. He underwent an intensive course on HIV/AIDS and Qualitative Research in the Community health research Training Unit, the university of Western Australia in 1994. Dr. Deb has authored a book, entitled Contemporary Social Problems in India, and has edited two books viz. Child Abuse and Neglect: South Asian Scenario and Child Protection: Socio-legal Measures in India. Dr. Deb has published 50 research papers in national and international journals of repute. In his 16 years’ research and academic career he has handled more than 35 large-scale qualitative and quantitative studies on various issues like reproductive and child health including HIV?AIDS, child maltreatment, social and clinical psychology in addition to evaluation of different intervention, programmes for national and international agencies. He is Hony. Founder Secretary of MIDSW, an NGO, Council member of the International Society for Prevention of child Abuse and neglect, USA, and founder Vice President of the Indian national Society for Prevention of child Abuse and neglect. Currently he is associated with ITPI (Training) and ICMR Task Force research Project as well.
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