Psychological Well-being of Children: Lessons for Family and School Interventions

The strong emotions and persona developed to an individual has its basement founded in his or her childhood. So, the emotions of children need to be considered, cared, and properly channelized with mindfulness, sensing clearly what’s happening in their mind.

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Emotional Intelligence

The concept of Emotional Intelligence is not new and it has been around in various forms for some 90 years, but it is the work of Daniel Goleman with his conceptualization of a range of “People skills” which he has called “emotional intelligence” a label first app[lied to this area by Salovey and Meyer in 1990, that has really brought the concept to the fore front.

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Work-life Balance and Role Stresses: A research summary

Work-life balance is not something that just happens. It involves the efforts of a number of partners: the employee, the organization for which the employee works, the family with whom the employee lives, and the society in which all are embedded. It involves mutual understanding and respect between all of these players and balance can be thought of as a set of reciprocal relationships with a set of highly inter-reliant partners.

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Understanding Cognitive Psychology

The term cognition refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation. Thus it is apparent that cognition is involved in everything a human being might possibly do; that every psychological phenomenon is a cognitive phenomenon.

Cognitive psychology attempts to understand the nature of human intelligence and how people think.

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Counseling needs and Developmental Concerns of Deprived Students

From an ecological perspective, early childhood development occurs within the multiple contexts of the home, the school, and the neighborhood, and aspects of these environments can contribute to the development of adjustment problems A child’s psychological adjustment in the school can have a significant impact on the level of success achieved later in life

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Stress: Fundamentals and Implications for Organizational Settings

Stress an unpleasant state of emotional and physiological arousal that people experience in situations that they perceive as dangerous or threatening to their well-being. The word stress means different things to different people. Some people define stress as events or situations that cause them to feel tension, pressure, or negative emotions such as anxiety and anger. Others view stress as the response to these situations. This response includes physiological changes—such as increased heart rate and muscle tension—as well as emotional and behavioral changes. However, most psychologists regard stress as a process involving a person’s interpretation and response to a threatening event.

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Four Unhealthy Behaviors Combine To Increase Risk Of Death

“Several studies have shown that specific health behaviors, including cigarette smoking, physical inactivity, higher alcohol intake and, to a lesser extent, diets low in fruits and vegetables, are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer and premature mortality [death],” the authors write as background information in the article. Most studies that examine the effects of these behaviors control for other unhealthy behaviors to identify independent effects. However, several poor lifestyle choices may coexist in the same individual.

“To fully understand the public health impact of these behaviors, it is necessary to examine both their individual and combined impact on health outcomes,” reports a University research finding. The researchers interviewed 4,886 individuals age 18 or older in 1984 to 1985. “A health behavior score was calculated, allocating one point for each poor behavior: smoking; fruits and vegetables consumed less than three times daily; less than two hours physical activity per week; and weekly consumption of more than 14 units [one unit equals 8 grams, or about 0.3 ounces] of alcohol (in women) and more than 21 units (in men).”

During an average of 20 years of follow-up, 1,080 participants died – 431 from cardiovascular disease, 318 from cancer and 331 from other causes. When compared with participants who had no poor health behaviors, the risk of death from all causes and from each cause increased with each additional behavior.

Individuals with four compared with zero poor health behaviors had about three times the risk of dying of cardiovascular disease or cancer, four times the risk of dying from other causes and an overall death risk equivalent to being 12 years older.

“Modest but achievable adjustments to lifestyle behaviors are likely to have a considerable impact at both the individual and population level,” the authors conclude. “Developing more efficacious methods by which to promote healthy diets and lifestyles across the population should be an important priority of public health policy.