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Institute of Applied Psychology arranged a webinar entitled Parenting during Covid-19
Institute of Applied Psychology arranged a webinar entitled Parenting during Covid-19


LAHORE: (Monday, April 04, 2021): Institute of Applied Psychology arranged a webinar entitled "Parenting during Covid-19". The resource person was Dr. Muhammad Zeshan, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the New Jersey Medical School and co-director of Neuro-Psych-Biostat (NPB) Course. He has received more than 10 regional, national, and international awards for academic excellence, teaching, and leadership and has been actively involved in teaching medical students, residents, social workers, pediatricians, and other healthcare staff, along with the families. Dr. Zeshan highlighted the strategies that are needed to understand underlying reasons behind the dysregulated behavior of the children. By focusing on the difference between the punishment and discipline and neuroscience of anger and irritability, he pointed out the long-term negative psychological impacts of punishment. Dr. Zeshan advocated the power of holding, validating and exploring feelings of children and shared strategies to raise children with reference to pandemic. Crux of the webinar was that instead of trying to fix every problem and troubled behavior of the children, parents need to first start listening and understanding the issues faced by their kids, provide them necessary space to communicate, only then they will be in a better position to solve them. Prof. Dr. Rafia Rafique concluded the webinar on the note that both parents and children need to connect with each other for a healthy psychological growth. The webinar was live streamed through IAP Facebook.