 Thank you all for joining the psychology department webinar on your career perspective in psychology. Thank you all. Those who have joined from outside and as well as students of psychology department and the students from the other department as well. Okay, so to begin with for today's agenda, the speakers would be myself. We have another speaker, Wondang Lolota, a STEM professor from the psychology department, and we'll be hearing words from our students from HRUSU and Imli Benjla from second semester. Okay, so here's to today's agenda. So in today's webinar, we'll be talking on the introduction. We'll be looking into the psychological psychology department initiatives. Also, the psychology papers offered under Nagaland University and the career options as well as your career path and diversity of professions and also the students experiential learning. And if you have any questions or doubts to clarify, we'll have that session. Okay, so yeah, to begin with, let me introduce myself. Okay, myself. I'm Dr. Nujini. Currently, I'm taking the in-charge of the psychology department at the college. So yeah, once again, I welcome you all. Right, so you have all heard about what psychology is or maybe you have already had a tidbit idea of what psychology is all about, right? So here, in today's webinar, we'll be looking into the definitions of psychology and the career paths as well as the career prospects in India as well as in Nagaland and also which are career in psychology as a career, what options are there for you to take up. All right, so here, let's look into, let's start off by asking a few questions to you. All right, so have you ever thought that how individuals think or how your behavior changes with different situations? Or have you ever thought that how someone finds it difficult to talk to strangers, maybe in your friend circles or whereas while some of your friends is a catwalk, right? And do you think, do you, those sports such as hallucinations, disorders or the unconscious mind excite you? If so, if all these questions excite you or if all these areas excite you, then you are in the right place here this afternoon, all right? And this afternoon as mentioned earlier, we'll be walking through the career prospects, what are the different ventures of our psychology and also the different professions available in psychology. All right, so before we move on, I would like to let us all engage ourselves in an ice breaker, all right? I want all of us to engage ourselves in an ice breaker and I want, I'm this ice breaker, I've actually I find it quite interesting and I want to apply it on my students. So those two, those students who have joined you are already aware you might be already aware of this ice breaker but for those of you who have joined this afternoon, let's all try this ice breaker, okay? So I want all of you to be take part actively, all right? Here are three questions plus three questions I want to ask you all. You can write it down in a paper or you can think about it, all right? So I hope all of you are ready. Okay, here's my first question to you all, all right? What is your, don't answer it yet, okay? I'll ask you later on to write it in a chat box so you can use your microphone later on, just write it in a paper or a site or maybe you can have a thought on it and later on I'll ask you, okay? So here I want all of you to think what is your favorite color, all right? What is your favorite color? Think about this, the third question, what is your favorite fruit, okay? And the third question is your favorite country. So these are the three questions I repeat, your favorite color, your favorite fruit, and your favorite country, okay? I assume all of you have thought of the answer, okay? Now here comes the tricky part. So I want all of you to answer, but not yet, don't write it yet. I want all of you to answer counting backward from 30 to 1, all right? So while you are counting 30 to 1 backwards, I want all of you to type in your answers in the chat box, okay? I hope all of you can do this. So start now, start counting 30 backward, 30 to 1, and okay, here goes your time, all right? Start counting 30, 29, 28, and so on. Name your favorite color in the chat box. Name your favorite color. Keep on counting at the same time, keep answering. Yes, I want some participations. Your favorite fruit, your favorite fruit, your favorite country, your favorite country, keep counting at the same time, keep answering. Okay, thank you. I'm getting a lot of participation. Thank you for your participation. All right, okay, we'll come back to this later on as we move on, all right? Okay, so let's move on. I'll come back to this later. So the word psychology or the term psychology, okay, first appeared in around 1870s, okay? And in India, the first department of psychology was established at Calcutta University in the year around 1950, okay? So this is a brief history of the term when psychology was, when psychology appeared and the, the first department of psychology in India, all right? Moving on, psychology as a subject, okay? So here's a brief definition on or an overview of what psychology is all about, okay? Or what kind of, what as a subject, what does psychology studies? So here, psychology studies human behavior and mental processes from a diverse perspective, okay? And it also implies scientific methods to understand human perception, learning, emotions and interaction to situations. So coming back to the icebreaker, which we have just played, a short game which we have just played. So while we were taking this activity, all right, counting backwards and then answering, okay, you might have experienced a lot of other emotions, behaviors or reactions, isn't it? Or the perception, your learning, your memory, isn't it? Like, some of you, you might be thinking at the back of your mind, why, why do we have to count backwards? Or you might be thinking your surroundings, your surroundings, it might be distracting to you while you were answering. Have you encountered all this when you were taking this activity? Or was it a smooth flow? Did you experience any emotions? Any reactions to the situations? Yes, some of you might say at the moment, no, okay? But this is a short icebreaker, okay, which will suit you best understand the subject of psychology. So in psychology, we'll be learning about your emotions, your reactions to the situations, your perception or your understanding to the human behavior. And all these methods applies scientific method, all right? And so psychology is an interdisciplinary discipline, sorry, since it shares its boundaries with several other disciplines such as the social science and life science and also we'll be looking into the artificial intelligence, all right? I hope you're clear with psychology as a subject of what will you be dealing in psychology, right? Okay, let's move on, right? So let's take a brief overview of the different types of papers offered under NAL and University, okay? So if you are going to bound a journey on this three-year course on psychology, then you'll be taking these papers in your three-year journey. So you'll be covering your foundations of psychology, you'll be having practical which is basically a psychological testing and you have your educational psychology, statistics in psychology, you have developmental psychology, you have counseling, you have organizational as well as you have psychological research and mental health and some behavioral dysfunctions or psychopathology, you have social psychology and you have human resource management, okay? So these are the major papers you'll be dealing or you'll be studying in this three-year course under NAL and University, all right? Yeah, let's move on, okay? Now let's come back to the department initiatives, okay? So this is a quick overview of the department psychology department which the department has conducted some programs and some collaborations with other departments and also some contributions from the year 2020 to 2021. So in a short span of time, the psychology department, we have conducted a World Society Prevention Day, we have observed on the 10th September 2020 that was last year and also we observed a World Algebra Day on September in the month of September that was last year and we had observed a World Mental Health Day, 10th September in collaboration with the sociology department and this year we observed the developmental disability month and also we had a program on Embrace Your Differences, next slide please, we have the Embrace Your Differences in the month of April and besides these we have also the students participated by contributing the articles, your reviews and also inter-department competition participation and some external participations as well. So in a gist, this is the contribution or this is the initiatives what the department has done so far from 2020 till date and moving forward we have many plans up on our sleeves, okay? We have many programs here to be organized and we have lots of things to do, okay? Both practical or both internal and both external as well, okay? Yeah, next slide. Right, so this is a, there was a brief summary or a gist of what an overview of our department and what you'll be doing once you take up psychology, okay? And now the time will be given to our ma'am Wanda for taking you through to the different branches of psychology, the career path and also the diverse profession once you take up psychology as you carry it. Over to you Wanda. Thank you all. Thank you. I think I un-shared my slide by mistake. I'll just share it once more. Okay, hi everyone. So I'm Wanda Malone. Right now I'm teaching at Detso College in the psychology department. So now that we are aware of what the subject psychology is and also the course program and at Detso College and also the activities that has been conducted by the psychology department. Now let's look into another reason why you could choose psychology as a major. That is because of the very wide career options that are available for you, okay, in the subject. But before we look into it, let's quickly look at the different subfields of psychology because psychology is such a huge subject that it's only natural that they have many distinct branches that emerge out of it. So let us quickly look at the different subfields of psychology. So the first one we're going to talk about it, talk about is biopsychology and basically biopsychology is the relationship between the brain or our biological processes and behavior. And when we're looking to social psychology, it's the study of how the study of how people behave in groups. When we look at clinical psychology, it's studies and it assesses and treatmental emotional and behavior disorders, the study of assessment and treatment of emotional and mental behaviors disorders. And when we look into counseling psychology, counseling psychology is the study of counseling services and psychotherapy to help people cope with problems and industrial psychology or also organizational psychology. That is the study of applying psychological research and principles to the workplace to improve productivity and quality of life. And also when we're looking through sports psychology, that is the psychology wherein the psychologist works with the athletes on issues of anxiety, fear of failure, focus, et cetera. Okay. Now there's another subfield called forensic psychology that is the relationship between the study of the relationship between psychology and criminal justice and another called engineering psychology, that is the study of improving and adapting technology, equipment and work environments to enhance human behavior and capabilities and also educational psychology, which is the study of how different variables influence individual students outcome. Now when we look into developmental psychology, it is the study of psychological development at various life stages, cooperative psychology, the study of human perception, thinking and memory, and experimental psychology, which is a study of research that involves manipulating variables in a laboratory setting. So let's look at how you can become a psychologist. Okay. So firstly, you would have had to have studied psychology in your tent or in your tent after your tent plus two, after your tent, which is your 11th and 12th, but it's not necessary that you have to have taken this subject to do your BA. Okay. So again, to become a psychologist, you can or you you have to have studied psychology in your 12th or you need not also. Okay. But you have to have graduated and obtained a degree in psychology, either with or without an owner's. Okay. And if you want to, you can also get a postgraduate degree in a specific branch of psychology, and you can also look into further studies, which are MPL, PhD, and also SIDEM. Okay. Now there are also multiple optional diploma courses that you can take in specialized areas. So we are going to be looking in what different areas, careers you can choose after you have studied psychology. And we are going to look at it in relationship with the different levels of degrees or studies you need to have taken in order to choose that career path. Okay. So here. So with an associate degree, you can become a rehabilitation worker. With a master's degree, you can become a drug and alcohol specialist. You can, these are some of the more conventional careers you can choose after taking psychology. Okay. Now with a PhD in psychology, you can become a professor. You can also become a researcher. Okay. Now if you have taken a SIDEM, you can become a psychotherapist. And you can work in the clinical setting. Now with a bachelor's degree, you can, these are just a few of the examples. Okay. We are going to be talking more about the different careers you can choose. So you can become a career counselor. These are some of the more conventional career paths you can choose with a psychology degree. Now, I just want to make this clear. When it comes to becoming a psychiatrist or a neuropsychologist, a lot of people get confused between psychiatrists and neuropsychologists. And the difference is that with a BA in psychology or a master's MA in psychology, you will not be able to become a psychiatrist or a neuropsychologist. Okay. So in order to become a psychiatrist, you will have to have studied MBBS, have a medical degree. Okay. Only then you can proceed to become a psychiatrist. And even for neuropsychologists, you will have to have done a BSE and an MSC in neuropsychology, in order to become a neuropsychologist. So these are a few confusions that people have very often. That is why we are just clarifying that for you. Now you, these are some of the more high-paying jobs in psychology. Okay. So clinical psychologists and industrial or organizational psychologists, wherein you can work in hospitals, you can work in clinics, you can work with different governmental organizations also, which we will get to later. And when it comes to, again, industrial and organizational psychologists, you can work with various organizations and a lot of MNCs. They're also higher psychologists. So these are a few options. Now again, there are also these aviation psychologists. For that, you will need to have an extra specialized diploma course or certificate course in order to become aviation psychologists and also consumer psychologists. These are other options for you. Again, forensic psychologists, as we have discussed earlier, in order to become a forensic psychologist, you will need to have had studied BA or a master's in forensic psychologists or should have taken a diploma course in forensic psychology. Now you can also become a military psychologist. You can also become a military recruiter. For that, you need to have a BA. You need not have a specialized course or diploma course in it. And also school psychologists, you can take up counseling psychology and then become a school psychologist or you can take up school psychologists as a degree or during your master's. You can specialize in child psychology and then you can become a school psychologist. So these are the lesser known career paths you can choose with a psychology degree and that is art therapy or art psychotherapy also. So for this, again, after having done your masters, you can take up a diploma course in art therapy and you can work as a art therapist. You can also open up your own practice with an art therapy license. Now you can also work with companies and become a with advertising agencies and become a consumer psychologist. You can work as a counselor and to work as a counselor, you need to have studied counseling psychology during your master's or you will need to have had taken diploma courses in counseling. Again, we have already covered forensic and criminal psychologists. For that, you need to have a degree in this. You need to have a specialized degree during your master's or during your bachelor's in the specific field and school psychologists and sports psychologists. Again, for sports psychologists, you need not have you can do your bachelor's in psychology and then take a specialized course in sports psychology during your master's or get a diploma. So now when we look in the Indian and in the Nagaland context, we know that there are many rehabilitation centers for many different issues such as let's say drug abuse, which is most commonly in Nagaland. We have drug abuse, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation centers, but these are not all okay. So the other rehab centers could be rehab centers for people who have underground mental trauma or who have mental disabilities and are recovering from it or who have even gotten let's say physical trauma and they are or brain trauma and they are recovering from it. Or it can also be rehabilitation centers for persons who are differently abled or maybe people who have speech and hearing issues. Okay, so these are the different rehabilitation centers that exist. So a clinical psychologist or psychologist or even a drug and alcohol expert or speech therapist, they are all there are all career paths you can choose. You can have a specialized course, you can take a specialized course in it and you can choose to work in rehabilitation centers and hospitals. When it comes to hospitals, you can work as a clinical psychologist, you can work with a psychiatrist or you can also work as a counselor. So in India or in Nagaland, there recently I think there were jobs for clinical psychologists that were advertised and it is under the district mental health program under the NHM. So clinical psychology jobs are available even in Nagaland and there is always a need for counselors in hospitals. So there are different health missions by the NHM in Nagaland also. So with the AIDS program and the tobacco program right when all those programs non-communicable diseases programs under all of these counselors are always required. But as of now most of these jobs are contractual but we just want to let you know that jobs are available. Now again when it comes to psychological research centers, you can always work with different research institutes and some of it could be the NIPCIT and NIMHANDS and the Central Institute of Psychiatry at Ranchi, a few examples, EPAS, all of that. You can work as research assistants, you can work as psychologists, you can work as clinical psychologists, you can work as project managers for the different programs that they have as psychologists in these research centers. So now earlier we talked about the advertising industry right. So as a consumer psychologist you can work in the different industries, even industries okay and different organizations as a consumer psychologist. And again teaching like me you can always complete your master's, you can have your net qualification done, you can have your PhD and you can always teach as an assistant professor, or you can do your master's and get your beard if you want to work in school as a teacher. And also the different welfare organizations, so when we talk about welfare organizations there are many non-governmental, non-profit welfare organizations and also organization in nexus with the government such as the Child Welfare Committee and the National Committee for Women. So these are all places where a role of a psychologist or clinical psychologists are needed. Now again psychological assessment and testing, when it comes to psychological assessment and testing you can always work with schools, you can work as a career counselor where you administer all these assessments or you can work with hospitals, you can work with trauma centers where you can get after your master's you can get again more specialized certificate courses in different assessments or tests available that are used in those institutions and you can work as a psychologist in those centers. Now again research establishments and developmental programs, these are also, for example NIPSIT, okay NIPSIT is the National Institute of Public Health Cooperation and Child Development. Okay so there are always these establishments that require a psychologist, a clinical psychologist. Now we have talked about forensics and also universities and schools, now child and youth guidance centers these are the places which are always in need of a psychologist again if we talk about government ones like the CWCs and also the juvenile detention centers, the observation homes right all of these places are there are always opportunities in those places. Okay now factories and industries, so when we look into factories and industries again you can work as an industrial psychologist, you can work as a consumer psychologist or also you can also have studies, you can also study statistical psychology and using statistics and using research, try to come to conclusions about certain trends. Okay now again with you can always work in companies they're always in need of human in the human resource department right and in defense services and in private practices. So when it comes to private practices in India right now in order to open your own establishment you would have to have an RCI registration which is the rehabilitation council of India. So right now this is the committee that's handling licensure in psychology jobs also because as of now we do not have a psychological psychology council. So again for opening a private practice in order to have a license open a private practice you need to have worked under a RCI registered practitioner or you need to have studied in a RCI registered university for your higher studies. So what we're getting at is that today trained psychologists they are sought after in all spheres of life and job opportunities for psychology is endless. Okay and also because psychology is such a dynamic discipline that it's always broadening and it's always ensures so much boundary with so many different disciplines that with context the subject is always expanding. Okay and also therefore the application of psychological principles is so diverse which is why it is such a good career path that you can choose because it's ever expanding. Okay so thank you so this is it for my my bed thank you for listening now we will have our students who are currently enrolled in our psychology program they will be sharing their experience of studying psychology here at that's a college so we can take your time. Good afternoon everyone I hope I'm audible. Yes you are. I would like to take if I'm sorry first of all I would like to introduce myself my name is Shrizo Krasi and I am currently pursuing my bachelor in psychology at that's a college team up. So this afternoon I would like to take a few minutes of your time to speak on psychology as a study and career or why should you take up psychology to build your career. Ms. Nujeneno and Ms. Wananglo has clearly explained to us about the history of psychology and the different career options psychology can present to us with so I don't have much to say now so I'll just keep my sharing brief with my experiential learning. So as for me being a psychology student here at that's a college I came with many questions of my own with so much curiosity and high expectation with the hope that this subject would answer to all my questions my personal questions and it was so fortunate for me to choose psychology because it not only began answering my questions but I get to learn so many interesting things that broaden my mind and help me see life in a new perspective even though most of the classes were online. To be honest it was kind of difficult it was kind of hard at some point because we're the first batch of psychology at that's a college so we had no seniors to look up to but thanks to our dedicated professors of psychology department Ms. Nujeneno and Ms. Wananglo with their sincere effort helped us through all our doubts and obstacles. I can't say much about my experiential learning but all I can say is I've learned so much I've explored myself and have inspired and have inspired me so much well actually I've prepared so much but Ms. Nujeneno and Ms. Wananglo has covered all my topics so it wouldn't be so interesting for me to repeat all those so I'll just get to the end of my share so for all the students joining the school they're still confused with subject to opt for why not take up psychology why not explore yourself through this subject why not learn while having fun through practicals and experiment join us in join us along our journey to make this society a better place now I will give time to the next speaker in Lebanon to share her thoughts on it thank you. Good afternoon everyone my name is Initna and I am from the department of psychology so today I will be speaking a bit about my learning experience and on my personal road to psychology as a subject so first of all to speak a bit about my learning experience in psychology here in Tetzel it has been very good so far and through psychology I got to like educate and learn better on different concepts and ideas and also as I went on learning the subject I became more aware on how there are like several disabilities and differences that exist within us and in fact in our society which we sometimes like don't emphasize or speak enough on so learning psychology has been in a way learning apart from am I audible miss? It's just for a moment you got freeze but now it's audible. Oh sorry okay so I'll continue now when I talk about learning apart from academic knowledge here in Tetzel there are also like different webinars and events through which we get to understand better on different topics and our psychology department has also helped several webinars and events like Miss has mentioned earlier and what I really liked about this webinar was that it has contributed a lot towards my knowledge on topics which I was not properly aware of and also at the same time these events and webinars were very engaging and insightful and also now moving on to when it comes to my personal virtue psychology I think the subject has given me a lot of better insight on my own feelings and thoughts and also moreover I think I learned better I learned to like become more mindful and aware of topics like mental health or depression or a person's disabilities these others and all that and it has in a way taught me on why it is important not to discriminate between people and also on reasons why we should be kind to everyone so to simply put it in a nutshell I think by studying the subject I got learned something from it every day that I could put to use for myself and also to help contribute towards the society and all in all taking up psychology in Tetzel College has been a wonderful experience for me so far thank you thank you everyone thank you Wanda Huzhu and Indivenda all right so now we have come to the end of our webinar and the time is open for question and answer if you have any queries or clarifications which you would like to put forward you can unmute or you can use a chat box everyone's clear no confusions all right so there seems okay no one seems to be confused and clear about what the different branches as well as the different counterparts okay so with that note I hope all of you had learned something and something new about psychology and has broadened your perspective and yeah if you have any doubts and you would like to clarify you can always write back to us and get clarified with your doubts okay so yeah we will end the webinar from here and once again thank you all so much for joining us this afternoon and with your presence here you have made this webinar a success thank you all have a good evening all of you