Dr. Ruhi Khalid, Director Institute of Psychology, BNU chaired a scientific session of 10th International CBT Conference, Lahore.

Crises Intervention Meeting held at Mayo Hospital

Task force formed by the Health department of Punjab invited professionals from the field of mental health on 6th of January, 2015 to give suggestions regarding measures that can be adopted to deal with the present instable situation of the country. Dr Ruhi Khalid, Director Institute of Psychology and Amna Affan Butt, Assistant Professor, represented BNU at Department of Psychiatry, Mayo Hospital, Lahore. The main purpose of this meeting was to prepare crisis intervention plan for school children after the tragic Peshawar Incident which shook the whole nation. Some of the important decisions taken in the meeting included module development for training mental health professionals, preparing a list of crisis intervention experts and increasing human resource to effectively deal with future catastrophes. Another meeting will be called to evaluate the progress made to accomplish the aforementioned goals.

Director Institute of Psychology (IP), Dr. Ruhi Khalid along with a few faculty members participated in the 5th International Conference on Educational Psychology held at National Institute of Psychology, Islamabad on 13th November, 2014. Dr. Ruhi Khalid chaired a scientific session on the theme of “Students and School Environment “at the conference. She also presented a paper along with Dr. Farhat Nadeem, Assistant Professor IP. The title of the paper was “Factors Contributing to Good Grades in Schools”. Ms. Amna Affan Butt and Ms. Abia Nazim from Institute of Psychology also presented two research posters at the conference.

Dr. Ruhi Khalid, Director, Institute of Psychology at Beaconhouse National University chaired the scientific session at International Conference on Educational Psychology arranged by National Institute of Psychology, Quaid-i- Azam University, Islamabad on 13th November, 2014. The theme of the session was “Students and School Environment “and included research papers from eminent universities all over Pakistan. The conference was attended by leading psychologists, educationists, researchers and students from all over the world.

Dr. Ruhi Khalid, Director IP and Dr. Farhat Nadeem, Assistant Professor IP have presented a research paper at the 5th International Conference on Educational Psychology, 2014 held at National Institute of Psychology, Islamabad on 13th November, 2014. The title of the paper was “Factors Contributing to Good Grades in Schools”. Ms. Amna Affan Butt and Ms. Abia Nazim from Institute of Psychology, Beaconhouse National University, have presented two research posters at the 5th conference.

Director Institute of Psychology, Beaconhouse National University, Dr. Ruhi Khalid has presented a research paper at the British Psychological Society Conference 2014 held in Windsor, United Kingdom. Her paper was based on the topic of “Gender as Disability” and she presented it along with Ms. Ishba Khan, a student of M. Phil at the Institute of Psychology.