Riaz Fatyana, Chairman National Assembly standing committee on human right and President Pakistan Psychological Association (PPA) would table a bill in National Assembly for establishment of Pakistan Psychological Council (PPC) in the country.
While presiding over a meeting of central executive body of PPA here, he said frustration is quite high in our society which de-motivated people from working for the national interest. He said psychology covers the entire life of human beings and through advance research in this area many problems can be resolved in an amicable way, adding that passage of PPC bill from the Parliament is the need of the hour. “We are working on draft of the Pakistan Psychological Council and it would be table in the National Assembly soon”, Fatyana stated. On prevailing situation in the country, he blamed that it was caused by psychological trauma which led to violence in society. Fatyana urged the need of establishing psychological and addiction trauma centers. Fatyana said psychosocial issues badly affected mental health, daily routine life of masses, relationships and even physical health of people.
Disabled kids four times more likely to become victims of violence: A new study has demonstrated that children with disabilities tend to be four times more likely to become victims of violence than those without disabilities. The research conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) reveals that the factors such as stigma, discrimination, and ignorance about disability, as well as a lack of social support for those who care for kids lead the children with disabilities at higher risk of violence, Press TV reported. It is estimated that one in four children with disabilities experience violence during their lifetime. Mark Bellis from Liverpool’s John Moores University in the UK and his team through a systematic search and data quantified the prevalence and magnitude of the risk of violence against disabled children that were conducted in the last two decades. They reviewed 17 eligible studies on more than 18,000 children between the ages of 2 to 18 years from the research conducted in the USA, UK, Sweden, Finland and several other countries.
