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Barriers and tips for Self-actualization
Self-actualization is a concept which attempts to describe what motivates people and what is the driver of human behaviour. It explains the goals in life that shape behaviour and how individuals can realise their full potential. What is Self-actualization?...
A Guide to Understand and Manage Stress
Everyone feels stressed from time to time. Some stress is beneficial as it motivates people to complete tasks. However, chronic or long-term stress can have detrimental effects on physical and mental wellbeing. Steps need to be taken to reduce the duration and...
Courage and Vulnerability: What is it and is it important?
A lot of our fear happens subconsciously, without us realising it. There is a voice in the back of our heads that tell us irrational things such as “you are not qualified” or “they will reject me”. We often find ourselves worrying about how other people perceive us,...
Depression: What is it and How to fix it?
A person is diagnosed with this condition if they continuously feel worried or down and have lost pleasure in engaging in daily activities. Other symptoms include low self-esteem, feeling hopeless and helpless, tearful, guilty, and intolerable of others. However,...
Organisational Psychology: Working Effectively in Teams.
Team development and leadership. Exploring individuals' behaviour in the workplace and psychological principles that can be applied in understanding organisations and improving their employees' lives. Work teams can be powerful and dynamic, and they can help an...
The Contribution of Attachment Styles to Relationships
How to understand behaviour in relationships To form a good romantic relationship, it helps to understand the contributions of attachment styles in partnerships. Individuals with secure attachment styles develop good bonds. However, people with insecure attachment...
Contribution of Attachment Styles to our Lives
What are attachment styles and how do they influence our life? John Bowlby (1950) identified four attachment styles: secure, anxious-preoccupied, dismissive-avoidant, and disorganised-fearful-avoidant. An individual’s childhood experience of attachment (especially...
Student Wellbeing: Cultural Assimilation
Why it is Hard to Fit in a new culture or environment? Do you feel it’s hard to make friends when you start university? Did you travel internationally and experience cultural shock? Or are you struggling with cultural assimilation? If you answered yes to any of these...
Anxiety- What is it and How to Fix it?
People with anxiety experience continual and uncontrollable worry even if there is no apparent reason to worry. Anxiety results in low functioning and a person may become impaired. There are four major anxiety disorders: Generalised anxiety disorder,...