Thursday, October 24, 2019

Fostering Strengths: A Certificate Course in Psychosocial Skills for Working with Adolescents and Young People

Fostering Strengths: A Certificate Course in Psychosocial Skills for Working with Adolescents and Young People
By iCALL, TISS & Vishakha
Applications are now open!
Location: BHOPAL

Course Brief:

Fostering Strengths is a training program initiated by iCALL, TISS in collaboration with Vishakha. Fostering Strengths caters to helping professionals engaged with issues of psychosocial wellbeing of adolescents and young people. The course aims to equip helping professionals with knowledge, perspectives and skills that are contextualized, evidence-based and multi layered. Informed by a participatory, empowerment-oriented approach, the course is guided by a uniquely designed curriculum and is facilitated by a team of experts specializing in different areas of work concerning adolescents and young people.


Course Objectives:
·         To help professionals develop a deeper as well as broader understanding and knowledge of psychosocial issues faced by adolescents and young people and how they are intertwined with socio-cultural factors
·         To acquaint professionals with perspectives and frameworks for conceptualizing psychosocial issues of adolescents and young people
·         To help professionals learn psychosocial skills and interventions to work directly with adolescents and young people
·         To help professionals build programmatic skills and interventions to mobilize stakeholders and the community at large for engaging in preventive as well as interventive work with adolescents and young people

Course Structure & Dates:
·       9 days of on-campus residential contact class - 15th-24th November, 2019
·        3 months of practicum component after the contact class, initiated within the professional’s organization/setting which works towards psychosocial wellbeing of adolescents and young people 
·         Weekly supervision during the practicum
·         3 days of follow-up (in March 2020 tentatively)

Course Thematic Areas:
Background & perspective for working with Adolescents & Young People in India
• Self & Identity
• Gender & Sexuality
• Interpersonal Relationships: Peers, Family & Romantic Relationships
• Strength based counseling
• Academic & Career Concerns
• Suicidality & Self Harm
• Substance Abuse & Addiction
• Understanding & prevention of Child sexual
abuse
• Burnout & Self-Care for Helping
professionals
• Project development & documentation

Eligibility:
• Bachelors in any applied social sciences discipline* + Min 3 years if direct work towards psychosocial well-being of adolescents and young people
• Masters in any applied social sciences discipline* + Min 1 year of direct work towards psychosocial wellbeing of adolescents and young people
*Applied Social Sciences disciplines include: Social Work, Psychology, Human Development, Education

Application Procedure:
1.  Please find the course brochure attached.
2. Please fill out the Google Form on this link to apply directly: https://goo.gl/forms/63dgLskfedPNPAiu1 .
Last date of application is 5th November, 2019
3.  Telephonic/Skype interviews will be scheduled with shortlisted candidates.
4.   Selections will be based upon an evaluation of the purpose statement, professional experience, understanding of work and reflection on personal practice.
5.  The course organizers reserve the final right with respect to selection of participants.

About iCALL:
iCALL is a field action project initiated by the School of Human Ecology, TISS, which provides immediate, anonymous and professional counselling services over telephone and emails to individuals in psychosocial distress. iCALL also undertakes mental health outreach activities, capacity building and consultancy for corporates, educational institutions, government agencies, and NGOs along with generating research and publications with respect to concerns of adolescents and young people as well as for mental distress and counselling in general.

About Vishakha:


Founded in 1991, Vishakha has been a part of the Women’s movement in Rajasthan and has been working towards empowerment of Women, girls & youth through mobilization, capacity building & community led advocacy in rural & urban communities. Identifying gaps in psychosocial support available to young people, in 2013, Vishakha developed a “youth pertinent”, empowerment oriented counselling framework, delivered through a youth resource centre & counselling services in educational & training institutes, reaching over 1000 youth..


For any queries, contact:
vishakhasanstha@gmail.com
Phone: 01412980614
icallhelpline@gmail.com

International Twitter Poster Conference

International Twitter Poster Conference

APA's Division 2, Society for The Teaching of Psychology's International Twitter Poster Conference (ITPC) which is from November 1-2, 2019 on Twitter! You can easily participate in the conference by tweeting your posters! 
Poster topics should relate to the teaching of psychology, including teaching tips, teaching activities, tips about doing research with psychology teaching, and SoTL projects. If you are unsure if your poster is suitable for the conference, please feel free to get in touch and we can advise. Posters presented in conferences can be presented again during this conference! 
More information about the conference can be obtained from: 

Monday, October 7, 2019

Online Exit Examinations Portal For DNB Final Examination December 2019 Session


NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS

Online Exit Examinations Portal For DNB Final Examination December 2019 Session


Important Dates*
Opening of Online Application Form 21st September 2019
Closing of Online Application Form for THEORY (DNB Final) 20th October 2019
Last date for receipt of hardcopy of Application form for THEORY (DNB Final) at NBE Office 30th October 2019
Dates of Final Examinations December 2019(Theory) 13th,14th and 15th December 2019
Closing of Online Application Form for ONLY PRACTICAL (DNB Final) 31st January 2020
Last date for receipt of hardcopy of Application form for ONLY PRACTICAL (DNB Final) at NBE Office 10th February 2020


Candidates willing to apply for DNB final - ONLY PRACTICAL Examination –December 2019 session can submit their online applications latest by 31st January 2020. Hard Copy of printed applications form must reach the NBE office by 10th February 2020.
No concession shall be given on any ground including postal delays or delivery delays. Applications received after the prescribed cutoff date shall not be considered.

How to pay: The prescribed exam fee should be remitted through payment gateway provided using a Credit Card or a Debit Card issued by banks in India or other modes as may be made available and have been provided on the web page. For more information, please visit the website www.exam.natboard.edu.in

For further details: http://exam.natboard.edu.in/candidates/index.php

Science Fiction story writing competition for PhD students

Science Fiction story writing competition for PhD students

Entries have been invited under the ‘AWSAR’ Programme of the National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC) Division.

The AWSAR stands for “Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research”, which is an initiative to disseminate Indian research stories among the masses in a format that's easy to understand and interesting for a lay reader. Under this initiative, PhD and post-doctoral scholars in science and technology streams would be encouraged to write at least one popular science story during the tenancy of their scholarship, and to participate in a national competition.
Indian citizen pursuing PhD or PDF in any stream of Science and Technology (S&T), within the tenancy of respective fellowship can apply.

Award Categories
Selection of best 100 entries of popular science stories and prizes.
For PhD researchers: The initial screening of the entry will be done by expert panel. 100 entries will be selected and each will be awarded with cash prize of   10,000/- along with Certificate of Appreciation.
For Post doc fellows: Twenty entries would be selected from articles submitted by PDFs relating to their line of research. Each will be awarded with cash prize of   10,000/- along with Certificate of Appreciation.
Selection of top three leading stories
For PhD researchers: The top three articles/stories will be selected from the leading stories. Further, they will be awarded with the cash prize of   1,00,000/-,   50,000/- and   25,000/- respectively.
For Post doc fellows: One outstanding article/story will be selected from the leading stories. Further the same will be awarded with the cash prize of   1,00,000/-.
These awards will be bestowed on 28 February at National Science Day event every year. All the awardees will be given an opportunity to attend Science Film Training Workshop organized by Vigyan Prasar.

The following will be the criteria for judging the entries:

The entries will be judged on the basis of accuracy, clarity, insightfulness, and resourcefulness.
The entries should convincingly Awer the questions such as why does the research matter? Does the story explain the writer’s research in a way that is easy to comprehend? Is it a compelling read? etc.
The judgement will be done by a panel of science writers and scientists selected by Department of Science and Technology.
These awards will be bestowed on 28th February at National Science day. All the awardees will be given an opportunity to attend Science Film Training Workshop organized by Vigyam Prasar.


Entries can be submitted at https://www.awsar-dst.in/ latest by October 15, 2019. More details can also be had from this site.

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