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Ethical Dilemmas in Counselling: How to Identify and Resolve Them for Client Well-Being

A client visits Ramya for counselling. She says that she used to self-harm and doesn’t want to inform her parents. Ramya is very confused about whether to inform her parents or not. Will it affect her ethical values or not?

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How to Use Psychology for Yourself (and Not Just the Exams)

Psychological tools are employed to enhance personal well-being through offering ways of coping with life issues. Mental well-being, emotional, psychological, and social, enables one to be happy and strong in handling stress. Employment of such tools improves positive feelings and

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Why Humans Crave Physical Presence Despite Constant Digital Communication

Picture this. A student who decides to travel to a different country to pursue education, miles and miles away, has a particularly bad day. When she returns home, she picks up her phone and dials her parents. The conversation lasts

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The Instagrammable Vacations Trap: How Social Media Aesthetics Turn Rest into Stress

Vacations used to be a time to rest. Now, vacations are a time to gather great content. As travellers post from white sandy beaches, turquoise canals, or artfully plated meals, they chase that perfect shot for Instagram. Relaxation has turned

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The Psychology Behind Acceptance: Fostering Respect for Human Differences in Schools

When a child steps out of their home and the loving, protective arms of their parents into the halls of an educational institution, they enter a brand new world. They are introduced to newer environments, people, cultures and more. A

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How Social Media Fuels Materialism and Consumer Culture

With the arrival of the digital era, social media has evolved from being a communication medium—it has become a bazaar of lives, dreams, and identities. Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram are just a few such sites that have turned into spaces

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The Hidden Struggles of Leadership: Mental Health Challenges in Educational & Corporate Roles

The leader position is often vied for because of the image it portrays: of ultimate power, position, and prestige that comes with it (Korman et al., 2021). They are increasingly romanticised as the highest achievement one can have (Meindl et

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Alternative interventions to Journaling

Therapeutic journaling refers to the process of writing down thoughts and feelings with the aim of provoking self-examination and personal development. It is a strong intervening tool for an emotional working-through, progressive emotional functioning, and achieving heightened levels of awareness

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Perfectionism, Overplanning & Imposter Syndrome: Causes, Effects, and How to Overcome Self-Doubt

In a society that promotes hustle culture and perfection, many individuals are encountering perfectionism, overplanning, and pervasive impostures as prevalent, some of the common evidence for Imposter Syndrome (Clance & Imes, 1978; Hewitt & Flett, 1991). The reasons for these

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The Psychology of Relocation: Coping with Homesickness & Culture Shock

Relocation is bound to result in sophisticated psychological dynamics, namely acculturative stress and culture shock. Acculturative stress refers to the mental load that people experience when they adjust to new environments (Kosic et al., 2025). Perceived discrimination, social rejection, and