{"id":134317,"date":"2019-11-17T03:05:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T03:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=134317"},"modified":"2019-11-17T03:05:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T03:05:56","slug":"promoting-psychology-issues-to-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=134317","title":{"rendered":"Promoting psychology issues to the community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>By Aisyah Karina<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 17 November 2019: &nbsp;In an effort to disseminate psychological information, academic exhibitions and activities focusing on community engagement were conducted during the Psychology Day 2019 on Thursday (15 November).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carrying the theme, \u0153Time is now: The Contribution of Psychology to the Community\u009d, the annual event was successfully held at IIUM organised by the Secretariat of Psychology (PSYCSTA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Various activities were carried out consisting of both academic and non-academic events which involved psychological fields such as clinical, media, sports, and physiological.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several academic booths displayed issues related to mental health, social behaviour and body health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The academic exhibitions and community engagement activities were presented by Psychology students themselves which sparked the interest of the audience who took part in the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the activities were also demonstrated previously outside of the campus as an act of engaging with the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event&#8217;s Executive Manager, Nur Aqilah, shared, &#8220;The programme is organised every year to exhibit research and work done by students majoring in Psychology.\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She explained that the aim of the programme was to promote Psychology itself by &#8220;not only focusing on Psychology students, but the whole IIUM community.\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was also attended by students from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) who visited the campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We were very happy and satisfied with the hospitality provided and it was truly a great event,&#8221; said one of the visitors.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aisyah Karina GOMBAK, 17 November 2019: &nbsp;In an effort to disseminate psychological information, academic exhibitions and activities focusing on community engagement were conducted during&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":134328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,111,159],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/psychday2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134317"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134465,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134317\/revisions\/134465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}