{"id":275403,"date":"2025-12-19T00:39:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=275403"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:39:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:09:46","slug":"aappa-seeks-psychology-dept-at-apu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/aappa-seeks-psychology-dept-at-apu\/","title":{"rendered":"AAPPA seeks psychology dept at APU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 18 Dec:<\/strong> Members of the All Arunachal Pradesh Psychological Association (AAPPA) on Wednesday met Arunachal Pradesh University (APU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Tomi Riba here in East Siang district to advocate establishment of a department of psychology in the university, stressing its urgent relevance in the present context of escalating student mental health challenges and suicide cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The delegation highlighted that psychology is critical in equipping students with essential life skills, such as resilience, emotional regulation, and self-awareness, which are increasingly necessary to cope with academic pressure and psychosocial stressors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They further emphasised the importance of psychology as both an academic discipline and an institutional support system to strengthen on-campus mental health services and counselling support for students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The VC on his part said that the university hasalready been considering the introduction of psychology, and appreciated the timely and constructive inputs shared by the association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, 18 Dec: Members of the All Arunachal Pradesh Psychological Association (AAPPA) on Wednesday met Arunachal Pradesh University (APU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Tomi Riba here in East Siang district to advocate establishment of a department of psychology in the university, stressing its urgent relevance in the present context of escalating student mental health challenges and suicide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-275403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}