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Mental Health Care is not a One-Time Affair : Post #1 - Why a Preventive Approach to Mental Health Care is Necessary

I, Jyotika Varmani, tutor students of Psychology at all levels. I reside in Mumbai and tutor students online. You can contact me personally on my e-mail id jyotikapsychology@gmail.com or call/message me on 9892507784 for enquiries. --- In this new series of posts, I discuss the necessity of routine health care, dispel some common myths about the nature of mental health and suggest a few measures, easily incorporated into everyday life for this end. In this first post of the series, I discuss why a preventive approach towards mental health care is an absolute must. --- The nature of depression and its treatment have become topics of popular concern since depression is today taken to be one of the leading causes of death. A lot of suggestions have emerged from mental health experts on how depression, in its initial phases, can be tackled by measures such as sharing problems with friends, adopting problem-solving strategies, taking professional consultation and counseling, etc., all of

Reading Recommendation # 7 - Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)

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I, Jyotika Varmani, tutor students of Psychology at all levels. I reside in Mumbai and tutor students online. You can contact me personally on my e-mail id jyotikapsychology@gmail.com or call/message me on 9892507784 for enquiries. --- Professor Elliot Aronson, the legendary author of several books of social psychology, alongwith the reputed professor Carol Tavris, delivers yet another thought-provoking classic with his book on the practical manifestation of the complex psychological process of cognitive dissonance. Professor Aronson and professor Tavris' years of wide-reaching expertise in the realm of social psychology make for every single page of this classic. They brings alive the difficult-to- comprehend concept of cognitive dissonance by discussing the most prominent and well-known cases of self-justification from the worlds of social work, politics, parenting, law and intimate relationships among several others.  They begin by explaining in vivid detail how self-justifi

Understanding the Natural Experiment for IB Psychology

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