Opportunities!

Hello there!

Here's a notice for all of you. An opportunity to be part of the committee of CPIC. Read below for details.

This time our club is officially in search of new "fresh-lives" to join our CPIC committee members. The details are as following:-

Positions and number of recruits
Art Team (2) - handle the decoration of booths, events and board; design posters and flyers; all things creative and artsy
Program Team (3) - in-charge of organizing and managements of events; to plan and execute activities (various size, either small general meeting, game...or visitation trip, campaign) with the aids of other committee members.

Publicity (2) - publicity for the club through blog, twitter and facebook

Treasurer (1) - handle the accounts of the club (no real accounting skills needed)

Secretary (1) - prepare proposals and letters for club events; send out e-mails to members

Criteria

• Interested in clinical psychology or related field
• Have the passion in organizing or promoting event.
• enthusiastic and passionate of sharing the works of the club to the public

What you need to do?

• Write down your personal details (name, id no.,year and semester that you are in).
• Your brief resume
• post that you interested in
• experience in joining extracurricular activity
• post that you have hold before in club/event
• experience in organizing/publicizing activity

Therefore, grab this great opportunity! If you are up for it, write down part (III) "what you need to do?" and email back to us by 8th November 2013. We will meet you briefly for further discussion. 

Place and time for the brief meet up will be informed to those who are short-listed.

If you have further inquiry, please feel free to email us as well. Our email is helpcpic@gmail.com.

What is Clinical Psychology ?

We often come across to William Wundt in our psychology text book. Most of the time he is known as the founder of the first laboratory for psychological research (1879), not only that he was the first to call himself a Psychologist. Someone who explore the nature of religious belief, identify mental disorders, abnormal behavior, and find damage parts of the brain. 

 As time evolve this practical knowledge of psychology became prominent when animal and human perceptions were applied in the education field. Lightner Witmer was the first to introduce psychological clinic (1896). This clinic grew and practice their application to the treatment to their various mental health disorders.

We are all aware that clinic means sick patient being treated by a physician.Therefore, in the literal sense, Clinical Psychology means treating sick patients.In the broader common-sense, clinical psychology not only providing treatment for person with mental disorder but involves teaching and researching about behavior.

Clinical Psychology is strongly influenced by the treatment principles of psychoanalysis which place more emphasis on unconscious mind functioning.
The degree connected with clinical psychology are:

• Traditional Ph.D (Doctor of Philosophy) - involves training in both clinical treatment & research

• New Psy.D. (Doctor of Psychology) - involves clinical training & minimize training in research

Usually person who receive license are able to provide clinical services counter to teaching or conducting research.

• Those with Doctrates in clinical psychology usually becomes Psychologist. 
• Those with Master's Degree in clinical psychology usually become licensed as Marriage and Family Therapist.

written by,
Daathry Discovery
(Psychology Student in Help University, M'sia)

Welcome back to CPIC :)

 Its been a Wonderful  long semester holiday and i hope you've enjoyed it.

 

This coming 9th September 2013, University Live will be held at Wisma HELP,  Level 5. CPIC will be setting up a booth. Do drop by to support us and if you know of friends without a club introduce them to us. This even is also catered to recruit new members from our new 2013 intake students. Check out our booth and get to know what is our club all about and also what activities we run. If you are interested with what we have lined up for you do signup.We appreciate it very much. 

Date: 9/9 Monday
Time: 12-3pm
Venue: DSA Wisma HELP

 written by Daathry

Clinical Testing Workshop

What comes to your mind when I say "cognitive assesment"?

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WAIS-IV, WISC-IV?

If you've not studied psychology testing, I'm not talking in codes. These are actually real test run for children and adults to test their cognitive abilities.

Just so you know WAIS-IV stands for Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth Edition and WISC-IV is Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition. 

Want to know more about these tests and more? CPIC will be having a Clinical Testing Workshop. It will be run by a clinical psychologist from CPCS. The focus of the workshop will be on administering Wechsler tests like WAIS-IV, WISC-IV and WPPSI.

If you are interested, here are the details:

Topic: Introduction to Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-III & IV)

Date: 21 June 2013 (Friday)

Time: 12pm-2pm

Venue: LH 8.2
Fees: RM 5 (members), RM 8 (non-members)

Hope to see you there! :)

Addiction

Are habits and addictions the same thing? Well, for one they both consist of repetitive behaviors.

A habit is a choice. One can choose to stop the habit successfully if one wants to. On the other hand, an addiction involves psychological components where a person is unable to control his/her behavior without help because of his/her mental and/or physical condition. However, a habit may turn into an addiction.

As such, it is important to know how to identify the symptoms and causes of an addiction. Thus, CPIC's next general meeting. Our theme this time round is addiction. Here are they details of the talk:

Date: 15 May 2013 (Wednesday)

Time: 12pm-2pm

Venue: LH 3.5, Wisma HELP

Theme: Addiction

So if you are free or interested, do drop by. We'll love to see you :)

Movie Screening

Hello Yellow Fellow!

It's already March! How time flies. For most of you it's most probably the middle of the semester right now. Want to take a break from all the mental work?

Well, CPIC will be screening a movie this 13th March - The Machinist. Here's a short description about it. Don't worry no spoilers here..

Trevor Reznik works as a machinist in a factory and suffers from a serious case of insomnia whereby he has not slept for a year. He has an obsession of writing reminder notes and sticking them around his apartment to keep track of his dwindling weight. A mysterious notes start appearing in his apartment and a workplace incident cause him to believe that something or someone is out to get him. Could it be real or could it be an altered perception of reality caused by the lack of sleep?

Join Trevor in uncovering this mystery and finally coming to understanding his insomnia.

Sounds interesting? Here are the details:


Film: The Machinist
Date: 13th March 2013 (Wednesday)
Time: 12pm-2pm
Venue: Wisma Help, LH 3.5
Fees with a coke: Members (RM 2) , Non-members (RM 3)

Do drop by if you are interested!

 

Upcoming Field Trip! *Excites* =D

Hey there,

Guess what's coming up this March?...*drum roll*.... Well CPIC is organizing a trip to the Malaysian Mental Health Association (MMHA). If you don't know who or what MMHA is, let me give you an introduction:

 MMHA was founded by a group of professionals from University Malaya Medical Centre (University Hospital) who wanted to provide a place where the recovered and recovering can receive help and support. MMHA provides services both for their clients as well as their family members. Some of the programmes they run are the Family-to-Family Educational Programme where family members train other family members in caring for the mentally ill. They also run a rehabilitation programme which involves having activities such as cooking, dancing and art and craft aimed at keeping them occupied as well to develop living skills. The MMHA also has adopted a new programme called the Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) programme where clients are taught and helped in managing and copibng with their illness. Furthermore, MMHA also runs a Charity Shop Project and Day Care Centre.


As such, CPIC will be bringing you to MMHA this March. You'll be able to meet these people who have suffered from mental illnesses up close and be able to understand what they have and are going through.

Here are the details..

Date: 11th March 2013 (Monday)
Time: 9.30am-2.00pm
Meet-up point: Lower Foyer, Main Block
Transportation is provided

If you are interested please mail us at helpcpic@gmail.com together with your full name, student ID and contact number by 8th March. Places are limited to 20 people; so, places are on a first come, first serve basis.

Hope to see you there!