Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Shaheen Islam ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, University of Dhaka, BD

Abstract

Bangladesh is a country of 15 million of people where about 16% people are suffering from some sort of mental health problem that needs psychological intervention. However counselling is one of the stigmatized and misinterpreted concepts prevailing among the general population as well as professionals. In the last decade, different human right organizations working for disfranchised people have recognized and addressed the need of mental health counselling as a helping component of multi-sector holistic approach to care and service delivery. Government of Bangladesh has also acknowledged the need of counselling services and incorporating it in public health and educational sector due to increase in social malice like drug addiction, suicide, eve-teasing, aggression, domestic violence, etc. But due to very limited manpower, resources and proper orientation much of the counselling services are delivered by many unskilled amateur counselors with little or no training. This is not only increasing the risks of doing more harm than good, but also impeding the growth of counselling as a profession. This paper will address the issue of teaming of mental health counselors to provide community based preventive support to meet the emergent necessity and continuous demand for initiating officially approved certified and institutional counselling courses.

Keywords

Counselling, Service, Professionalism, Psychology, Psychosocial, Mental Health, Training, Psychotherapy, Case Study, Impact of Counselling, Trend and Future Direction in Counselling.

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Shaheen Islam ¹, Tanmi Akhter ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, BD
2 Department of Educational Psychology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, BD

Abstract

Childhood punishment is a persistent phenomenon of almost every corner around the globe. Existing socio-cultural context and lack of adequate systematic evidence surrounding punishment in Bangladesh left the issue almost unrevealed. This study addressed this gap by exploring the means, extent, reasons of punishment and its effect on psychosocial development of urban and rural school children. 300 children between 7-14 years of age were conveniently selected from four schools located in urban and rural area. A structured checklist related to experience of punishment and Beck Youth Inventories of Emotional and Social Impairment (BYI) were used. Punishment was found to be a universal experience with physical punishment as most common form of punishment. Significant difference in forms of punishment exists between urban and rural area. Urban parents were significantly more punitive than their rural counterparts. Multiple regression analyses shows that all models were statistically significant with varying effect of different forms of punishment on psychosocial development variables. (156 words)

Keywords

Punishment, School Children, Teacher And Parental Attitude.

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