Mental Health and Adjustment

By Bilqees Aslam Shah | Govt. College for Women, MA Road, Srinagar

Learners enrolled: 1785

The course “MENTAL HEALTH & ADJUSTMENT” is an Elective Course in B.A Honors in Education as well in B.Ed/ M.Ed under the Choice Based Credit System (CBSE). The course has been meticulously designed so that the students will have a basic understanding of the subject (e.g., factual knowledge, methods, principles, generalizations, and theories). The objectives of this course are to develop knowledge, understanding and some basic skills regarding maintenance of mental hygiene. The target audience will develop an understanding regarding:

• Mental Health & Adjustment.

• The dynamics of human behavior, human development & human personality from a life adjustment approach.

• Adjustment issues of various special groups.

• Stress dynamics & Management.

• Copying Strategies & some Therapeutic Interventions.

Summary

Course Status :	Ongoing
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Teacher Education
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	01 Jul 2024
End Date :	31 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends :	31 Aug 2024
Exam Date :	15 Dec 2024 IST
Shift :	I

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

WEEK-1

MENTAL HEALTH-I

• Concept of Mental Health and Mental Hygiene

• Status of Mental Health in India.

• Maladjustment and its causes.

• Symptoms of mal adjustment.

WEEK-2

MENTAL HEALTH-II

• Conflicts

• Frustration

• Adjustment Mechanism

• Family Life and Education

WEEK-3

HUMAN MENTAL LIFE & CREATIVITY

• Functions of Human Nervous System (Psychological basis of Human mental life)

• Functions of Human Endocrine system (Psychological basis of Human mental life)

• Meaning, nature and characteristics of a Creative Person

• Relationship between Creativity and Mental Health

WEEK-4

HUMAN PERSONALITY

• Personality-Definitions, Meaning & Nature: Development of Personality

• Trait Theories of Personality

• Type Theories of Personality

• Measurement of Personality and Different tools of Personality assessment

WEEK-5

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

• Meaning of Human Development

• Areas of Human Development: Social, Emotional & Intellectual

• Fundamentals of Piagetian Developmental Psychology

• Functions of Education with respect to Development of Human Values (Social, moral and Aesthetic)

WEEK-6

EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY & HUMAN BEHAVIOR

• Nature & Scope of Educational Psychology

• Application of Educational Psychology in Teaching learning process & in understanding Individual’s Behaviour

• Methods of Educational Psychology

• Counseling in Educational Institutions for solving Mental Health Problems

WEEK-7

ADOLESENCE

• Adolescence- Psycho-Physical Characteristics

• Problems of Adolescence

• Role of Education in solving problems of Adolescence

• Adjustment in Adolescence

WEEK-8

EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION

• Nature & Scope of Educational Psychology and Need for Psychological Approach in Education

• Sex Education

• Value Oriented Education

• Women Education

WEEK-9

ADJUSTMENT

• Dynamics of Adjustment and Coping

• Adjustment problems of Special Groups (Gifted, Creative & Delinquents)

• Adjustment problems of students with Learning Disabilities

• Adjustment problems of students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

WEEK-10

STRESS

• Stress & Categories of stressors

• Factors predisposing an individual to stress

• Concept & Importance of Stress Management

• Stress Coping strategies

WEEK-11

THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION-I

• Psychotherapy

• Group Psychotherapy

• Psycho-drama

• Play therapy

WEEK-12

THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION-II

• Psychoanalytic Method-Free Association, Transference and Dream Analysis

• Environmental Therapy

• Occupational Therapy

• Yoga/ Meditation

Books and references

• Barlow, D.H., Durand, V.M., Steward, S.H. (2009). Abnormal psychology: An integrative approach (Second Canadian Edition). Toronto: Nelson. P16.

• Baird, P.C. & Baird, M.S. (1996) “Echoes From A Dungeon Cell” A Doctor’s view of his incarceration, Psychiatric Service,47, 581-582.

• Beers, Clifford W. (1913) A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography, 3rd Edition. New York: Longmans, Green.

• Beers, C.(1908-81) A Mind That Found Itself. Garden City, New York: Doubleday.

• Carroll, A. Herbert (1964) Mental Hygiene (4th Edition) Prentice Hall Inc Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

• Carr, A. (2004). Positive Psychology: The science of happiness and human strength.UK: Routledge.

• Chauhan, S.S. (1977) Advanced Educational Psychology (6th Edition) Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi-110014.

• Coleman, J.C.: Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life, D.B. Taraporevala Sonsand Co., Bombay.

• Dain, Norman (1980) Clifford W. Beers: Advocate for the Insane. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

• Di Matteo, M.R. & Martin, L.R.(2002). Health Psychology. New Delhi: Pearson.

• Forshaw, M. (2003).Advanced Psychology: Health Psychology. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

• Hall, C.S. & Lindzey, G., Theories of Personality, Wiley Publications, New York.

• Hick, J.W. (2005). Fifty signs of Mental Health. A Guide to Understanding Mental Health. Yale University Press.

• Irwin G. Sarason & Barbara R. Sarason (2005) Abnormal Psychology, The Problem of Maladaptive Behavior (Eleventh Edition) Pearson Education Inc, New Jersey USA.

• Isac, M. K.(1978) “A Decade of Rural Mental Health Centre Sakalwara-A Report” ,National Institute of Mental Health And Neurosciences Bangalore.

• Jones, Kathleen (1999) Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• Kalein, D.B. Mental Hygiene, Prentice Hall India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.

• Lawson, P.(2008) Individual Differences in the Class-room. New York: David McKay.

• Maree, K. (2010) First Steps in Research Pretoria: VanSchaik.

• McMillan, J. & Schumacher, S. (2006) Research in Education: A Conceptual Introduction, Boston: Little Brown and Company.

• Meyer, Adolf (1948) The Commonsense Psychiatry of Adolf Meyer: Fifty-Two Selected Papers Edited, with Biographical Narrative, by Alfred Lief. New York: McGraw-Hill.

• Patel, V, Prince, M. (2020) Global mental health – a new global health field comes of age. JAMA, 303, 1976–1977.

• Robert Laslett (1977) Educating Maladjusted Children.

• Snyder, C.R., & Lopez, S.J.(2007). Positive psychology: The scientific and practical explorations of human strengths. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Taylor, S.E. (2006). Health psychology, 6th Edition. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill.

Instructor bio

Bilqees Aslam Shah

Govt. College for Women, MA Road, Srinagar

Bilqees Aslam Shah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Higher Education, UT of Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar. She is presently posted at Government College for Women, MA Road, Srinagar, a constituent college of Cluster University, Srinagar. She has been teaching various PG and UG Courses in the department since last 10 years including Psychological Foundation of Education, Special Groups and their Counselling, Mental Hygiene and Measurement and Evaluation. She obtained M.Ed and M.A. degrees from the University of Kashmir. She has qualified State Level Teaching Eligibility Test (SET) in 2013 and also qualified UGC-National Eligibility Test for Lectureship in 2013. She has been awarded UGC-Junior Research Fellowship in the year 2015. She has published many research papers in the reputed journals and attended many national and international conferences. She has worked as subject expert of many e-contents for UG Course and MOOCs developed under MHRD.

Course certificate

30 Marks will be allocated for Internal Assessment and 70 Marks will be allocated for end term proctored examination Securing 40% in both separately is mandatory to pass the course and get the Credit Certificate.

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